Fishing for trout with jerkbait is my favorite way to catch them at the moment. I have found that I catch browns 95% of the time with jerkbaits, occasionally a rainbow or brookie, the streams and river I fish usually have equal populations of browns and rainbows, brookies are less likely other than a few select streams. Most of the time I do a twitch, twitch, pause, twitch retrieve with the pause being only a second. Majority of the time I prefer to use 2 - 3 inch rebel tracdown minnow, however one day when the browns were insanely active, I wanted to see how far I could push the size of jerkbait. I carry backpack when I fish so I have bass/pike lures even if don't plan on using them. Upgraded to 6 in x rap, first cast 20 in Brown! So I went to 7 1/2 in rapala husky jerk and caught decent sizes brown within maybe 5 casts. The 6 in x rap works well consistently in streams with browns but my go to are around 3 in range rebel tracdown or yu zuri pin minnow. Very important that if your going to use jerkbait for trout to at the very least bend down all your barbs, ideally I want to try switching out treble hooks for single hooks and see how that works. The reason being trout are fragile when it comes to catch and release. 99% of the time i release all my fish and I have caught prob over a hundred trout on jerkbait, because of having my barbs bent completely down, I have yet to release a fish that was bleeding, everyone one of them was a healthy swim off. Being a fish lover I have to stress to bend those barbs first thing after buying the lure cuz potentialy having 6 barbed hooks stuck down a fish throat will only end with a dead fish, trout areant as hardy as bass or pike. Haha wow, sorry for the length guys, I was in the state of mind that I was explaining this to someone who is very new to sport of fishing, so my bad for over explaining basic s
