Favorite Fall Jerkbait Action/Colors

[NiX]

So I recently won this raffle of a Vision 110 lot and I plan on jerkbait fishing a lot this fall. I recently got a setup for these lures and plan to really work on my jerkbait fishing. I haven't even caught a fish with this technique yet. I have read the jerkbait thread stickied at the top but I am just looking at starting a specific thread for fall jerkbait fishing.

 

I usually cast it out and work it back with a variation of jerks, 1 jerk, 2 jerk, 3 jerk. I pause and count and then jerk again, sometimes I burn it back with jerks. I just haven't been throwing them enough to catch my first one and figure out what I like to do.

 

How do you like to work your bait? What areas are you keying in on? What is your favorite color?

 

[Bluebasser86]

I fish them with a jerk, jerk, pause cadence most of the time. I use several different baits but the Lucky Craft Slender pointer and flash pointer have been really good to me. Also do well with 78 pointer, Berkley Skinny Cutter 110+, Luck-E-Strike STX, and some custom painted Predator 110's. 

[burrows]

9 hours ago, NiX said:

So I recently won this raffle of a Vision 110 lot and I plan on jerkbait fishing a lot this fall. I recently got a setup for these lures and plan to really work on my jerkbait fishing. I haven't even caught a fish with this technique yet. I have read the jerkbait thread stickied at the top but I am just looking at starting a specific thread for fall jerkbait fishing.

 

I usually cast it out and work it back with a variation of jerks, 1 jerk, 2 jerk, 3 jerk. I pause and count and then jerk again, sometimes I burn it back with jerks. I just haven't been throwing them enough to catch my first one and figure out what I like to do.

 

How do you like to work your bait? What areas are you keying in on? What is your favorite color?

 

Nice looking baits ! Jerk jerk pause 

[Brett's_daddy]

I am new to jerk bait fishing too but from what everyone has told me you need to try a variation to see what the fish want. Start out with twitch, twitch, twitch...pause...twitch, twitch...pause...twitch...pause and repeat until you find that magic cadence that the bass seem to want that day. As for colors the age old adage of light, dark and forage seems to work best but you could also add in a chartreuse for stained/muddy water. You must be insanely lucky to win that whole lot of Vision 110's...WOW!!!

[Gundog]

Around here where most lakes are abundant with perch I tend to use a Rapala Husky Jerk with green back and copper or gold colored sides. The cadence of the lure depends on the water temp. Now water temps are in the 60's and fish are feeding for winter so it would be a quicker retrieve. When the water temps drop below 60 then I slow the retrieve and pay more attention to the pauses. When the water temp is above 60 the retrieve might be twitch, twitch, pause, when the water temp is below 60 it might be twitch, paaaaaaaause, twitch, paaaaaaaause.

[A-Jay]

The Perch pattern works well here in Northern MI.  

As for the cadence - almost anything works when they're on it.

But there are times when a particular cadence or length of pause will trigger more bites.

Just have to try different deals until you get bit a few times.

However . . .  .  When the water cools down - this is  The Way To Go.

 Works really well with standard depth baits just as well as the Deep Divers.

A-Jay

[crypt]

bomber long a,   husky jerk-  pretty much does it all for me. jerk jerk pause,sometimes really hard twitches with the rod. let the fish tell ya how they want it.

[gall]

Like everyone else said let the fish tell ya. Right now you can do aggressive retrieves usually start with a jerk jerk pause, then go from. There. When winter hits and the water temp drops the way that works for me is suspending jerks, middle of water column, and let them just drift in the current. That's for moving waters like creeks or rivers, around here yoi get the surprise monster trout that spilled out of the trout creeks and streams into the main bodies. 

[NiX]

Can't wait to try these boys out! Possibly going out tomorrow morning and I'll try it out... So far that is what I have been doing just looking for that first hit!

 

Yes super lucky, I had 3 numbers out of 20 and I hit  

[Choporoz]

22 hours ago, A-Jay said:

- almost anything works when they're on it.

 

My experience with jerkbaits is also fairly limited, but what I've found is they're either ON IT...or they aren't so much.   I don't mess around with them for very long without getting bites or bumps....because when they are truly on it, you know pretty quickly

[Munkin]

Two or three jerks then a pause is what I start with but cadence is something you have to figure out. As for favorite baits I like a LC Slender Pointer the best in Pearl Ayu or Ghost Minnow.

 

Allen

[Spankey]

My thought are pretty much the same as others. I'm pretty much a Rapala freak throwing Count Downs, Husky Jerks and the last couple of seasons the Shadow Rap Shads. Before ever trying one I read the reviews on the SRS's and they were a bit negative. I find them to be productive and certainly did not have them break. Now for the most part I'm fishing River smallies. An 8, 10, 12 lb. fish might break one I don't know. Colors gold w/ blk. back, silver w/ blk. back, silver w/ blue back. The Shadow Rap Shads have some nice color choices but I'm only throwing shiner patterns. 

 

I can't comment on any other brands. A lot of them out there that are good or better than Rapala. 

 

Have fun, good fishing. 

[npl_texas]

Anyone one throwing them with success with water temps in mid-80's right now?

[NiX]

My water temps are in the high 60's to low 70's, we are going through a little heat wave again so water temps will probably stick around 70 for about another week.. I am in northern California.

 

Hopefully they will be on it soon