JerkBaits

[DBL000006]

If you guys had to use just 4 colors. What 4 Color jerkbaits would you get?

[Jigfishn10]

Something flashy

Something natural

Something dark

Something loud

[ww2farmer]

What a coincidence, I only carry 4 colors of jerkbaits:

Bluegill

Yellow perch

Clear Ayu

Clown

[Bluebasser86]

A natural translucent color

American shad

bone

dealer's choice

[DBL000006]

How about Chrome with orange on the bottom?

[Crestliner2008]

I use jerks mainly for smallmouth. My favorite pattern is the X-Rap "Hot Head".

[smalljaw67]

Clown

Ghost minnow or pro blue

White or pearl

Shad or baitfish imitating.

 

[Fishes in trees]

Why would you stop at just 4?  I recommend buying LOTS of jerk baits and picking the one that you think will work that day.  That being said, most of the time I start out with a Lucky Craft Pointer in Table Rock Shad - two suspend dots placed directly behind the bill.

[DBL000006]

45 minutes ago, Fishes in trees said:

Why would you stop at just 4?  I recommend buying LOTS of jerk baits and picking the one that you think will work that day.  That being said, most of the time I start out with a Lucky Craft Pointer in Table Rock Shad - two suspend dots placed directly behind the bill.

I see your Theory in buying more then 4. I feel everyone has their go to Color in Cloudy and Sunny Conditions. I'm buying 4 jerkbaits, the brand is Storm Twitch Stick. I'll tell you guys the Colors i'm buying...

Black Chrome orange, Chrome Yellow Perch, Hot Blue Shad and Blue Chrome Orange and/or Chrome Clown. I may get a 5th. That's the 4 Colors i'm getting. What do you all think of my Color Selection?

[Master Bait'r]

Hakusei bass

Rainbow trout

Pagani raigyo

Gill pattern

 

No way I'd ever limit myself to 4 but those are my favorite eyeball ticklers.  

 

 

[smalljaw67]

For the Storm Twitch Stick I'd get either the black chrome orange or rainbow smelt for your baitfish pattern, chrome clown as your bright color, pearl shad for a white bait and finish it off with ghost herring or ghost pro blue.

[deep]

3 hours ago, DBL000006 said:

I see your Theory in buying more then 4. I feel everyone has their go to Color in Cloudy and Sunny Conditions. I'm buying 4 jerkbaits, the brand is Storm Twitch Stick. I'll tell you guys the Colors i'm buying...

Black Chrome orange, Chrome Yellow Perch, Hot Blue Shad and Blue Chrome Orange and/or Chrome Clown. I may get a 5th. That's the 4 Colors i'm getting. What do you all think of my Color Selection?

 

I like the hot blue shad color; not that I have ever fished the said bait, nor do I intend to. One paintscheme is plenty.

I'd rather buy four baits that each does something slightly different; than buy four copies of the same bait in different colors.

[smallies24/7]

I could only narrow it down to 5, but they would be (In no particular order)

1. Megabass Pro Blue or LC Aurora Black

2. Megabass French Pearl OB

3. LC Ghost Minnow

4. LC American Shad

5. LC Rainbow Laser Trout

[PennBass]

If you're buying four jerkbaits, I would recommend you buy from more than one brand. Each brand has its own special action that may be a game changer for certain day. 

[Angry John]

I would get a rc stx pro blue

An LC pointer in ghost minnow

A duo 100 in prism gill

A duo 80 in neo pearl

These work well and give you a good verity.

[smalljaw67]

14 hours ago, deep said:

 

I like the hot blue shad color; not that I have ever fished the said bait, nor do I intend to. One paintscheme is plenty.

I'd rather buy four baits that each does something slightly different; than buy four copies of the same bait in different colors.

You are really limiting yourself like that and with that statement I imagine you don't throw a lot of jerkbaits.  I will have at least 5 or 6 outings that that the fish will follow a Ghost Minnow Pointer 100, and I'll get 2 follows and then switch to a different color like Shrimp Brown or Aurora Black and they hammer it. I've also had days when it seems like there isn't a jerkbait bite and so before giving up I'll switch to different types only to find out the Pointers were the deal but the Rogue was a total killer or something else. It happens a lot with that bait and different patterns are essential, especially if there are smallmouth present. I will start with a bait based on conditions and I will try different cadences and if I get no action I first switch color, then size, then I go to a different one. It sounds like a lesson in futility but it has paid off about 90% of the time, you just have to know your baits and their triggering properties, but you have to spend a good amount of time fishing them. I have anywhere from 3 to 6 months of throwing suspending jerkbaits depending on the weather, a mikld winter will see me throwing one from February to April and sometimes into May and then from October or November through December and sometimes into January so I do throw them a good bit.

[deep]

2 minutes ago, smalljaw67 said:

You are really limiting yourself like that and with that statement I imagine you don't throw a lot of jerkbaits.  I will have at least 5 or 6 outings that that the fish will follow a Ghost Minnow Pointer 100, and I'll get 2 follows and then switch to a different color like Shrimp Brown or Aurora Black and they hammer it. I've also had days when it seems like there isn't a jerkbait bite and so before giving up I'll switch to different types only to find out the Pointers were the deal but the Rogue was a total killer or something else. It happens a lot with that bait and different patterns are essential, especially if there are smallmouth present. I will start with a bait based on conditions and I will try different cadences and if I get no action I first switch color, then size, then I go to a different one. It sounds like a lesson in futility but it has paid off about 90% of the time, you just have to know your baits and their triggering properties, but you have to spend a good amount of time fishing them. I have anywhere from 3 to 6 months of throwing suspending jerkbaits depending on the weather, a mikld winter will see me throwing one from February to April and sometimes into May and then from October or November through December and sometimes into January so I do throw them a good bit.

 

Thank you. You're right, I don't fish jerkbaits half (or even a tenth) as much as you probably do; nor do I fish for smallmouths. I hardly ever catch any decent fish shallower than 15 FOW anyway, except under certain conditions (where jerkbaits are not an option).

My point was I'd rather change presentation, and then the bait (therefore action) before deciding color was a factor.

[fisherrw]

chart shad

american shad

pro blue

crack