Breaking off a Jackhammer

[GReb]

[A-Jay]

Me ~

A-Jay 

[Jig Man]

It would be worse if you dropped your Chronarch overboard in the process.?

[Heartland]

I can't believe anyone pays 15-20 dollars for a vibrating jig in the first place.  The marketing power behind this one deserves an A+.    

[Teal]

I recently bought a few, it catches fish.  But heck, people spend that much on topwater baits and jerkbaits.  Cost of good stuff I guess.  I HATED it when megabass came out and it costed so much....then I fished them....crickets now

All that being said, if yall are on lake Gaston nc/va and see man get out of his red Javelin and it looks like he is trying to free his lure from a stump...stop by and say hi to me.

[GReb]

No different than buying a $200+ rod or reel. Or a $75k bass boat and $60k truck. Or $1000 rifle and $15k side by side. Or $150 running shoes. $90 button down shirt. 
 

Why make money if you don’t spend money ?

[Dens228]

Imagine bass fishing with a Jackhammer for bass on straight braid and bringing a decent musky all the way to your kayak before it cuts your line and takes off, with your Jackhammer.  Yep, that was me this morning. 

[Diggy]

Don't feel bad, my buddy casted off an 11 inch Wild Beat swimbait the other day.

[DitchPanda]

I think the jackhammer deal is a little different than a topwater. A bladed jig hangs up fairly easy so your prone to lose some. I've fished poppers for 20 years and have lost 1 I can remember. Cast to a lay down pop pop..boom bass goes hammer time on it pulls me into the lay down and snap. 10 seconds later bass jumps throws the popper and it lands about 10 feet away from me. So I lied I've never technically lost one.

Point in making is you will break off a 15 to 20 dollar chatterbait from time to time..but if your reasonably careful with topwaters you may never lose it.

Then again this whole chasing down green and brown slime balls is a pay to play. Think of how much money you've ever wasted at the bar or maybe gambling..or any other fruitless enterprise...the price of a bait seems marginal after that?

[YoTone]

thats why i only use my jack hammer on my kayak. i felt the pain of losing one bank fishing, its the worst.

[MassYak85]

There are certain lures I won't fish from the bank, this being one of them. 

[gim]

I refuse to use my most expensive lures in pike infested waters. Whopper ploppers, megabass jerk baits, Zman jackhammers, all stay in the box when ol esox is on the prowl. I’ve already lost a terminator spinnerbait this season to a northern pike.

[RoLo]

4 hours ago, Teal said:

If yall are on lake Gaston nc/va and see man get out of his red Javelin and it looks like he is trying to free his lure from a stump...stop by and say hi to me.

 

I've crossed the I-85 causeway on numerous occasions.

The next time I'll be looking for an angler in an orange polo.    

 

 

[MN Fisher]

31 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I refuse to use my most expensive lures in pike infested waters. Whopper ploppers, megabass jerk baits, Zman jackhammers, all stay in the box when ol esox is on the prowl. I’ve already lost a terminator spinnerbait this season to a northern pike.

I hurt when a pike took off with my Rattlin Rap a couple weeks ago.

[MIbassyaker]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

I refuse to use my most expensive lures in pike infested waters. Whopper ploppers, megabass jerk baits, Zman jackhammers, all stay in the box when ol esox is on the prowl. I’ve already lost a terminator spinnerbait this season to a northern pike.

35 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I hurt when a pike took off with my Rattlin Rap a couple weeks ago.

 

Same here...I felt vindicated a few weeks ago when I had a pike bite off a Smithwick Rogue....because I had swapped out a MB Vision 110 on that rod just before heading out.  If I'd gotten out onto the water before noticing, I probably would have just said "whatever" and started casting....and I would be out a $25 bait instead of a $7 one.

 

[Bird]

Some of us don't target pike but they've targeted my wallet lately, beautiful fish though. 

[Boomstick]

I haven't moved up to a Jackhammer yet -- plenty happy with the Project Z's myself, but I once lost a Megabass S-Crank, so I know your pain.

[Cdn Angler]

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

I refuse to use my most expensive lures in pike infested waters. Whopper ploppers, megabass jerk baits, Zman jackhammers, all stay in the box when ol esox is on the prowl. I’ve already lost a terminator spinnerbait this season to a northern pike.

I've caught 50-100 pike/2 muskie on whopper ploppers and no break offs yet. They usually aren't able to engulf the whole thing it seems like. 

 

Jerkbaits, jigs, swimbaits...another story. 

[gim]

9 hours ago, Cdn Angler said:

I've caught 50-100 pike/2 muskie on whopper ploppers and no break offs yet. They usually aren't able to engulf the whole thing it seems like. 

 

Jerkbaits, jigs, swimbaits...another story. 

I lost the small whopper plopper last season (I think it was the older version 90) to a good size pike.  Haven't lost a megabass or jackhammer (or any expensive CB) yet and its going to stay that way.  You're right, it would be difficult to lose the initial 130 size whopper plopper from a pike because of its size.  It would have to be an enormous one...or a decent sized muskie.  I've had a bunch of soft body frogs ruined the past few years.  When the body gets a gash or rip in it, it takes on water and won't float like it needs to in order to stay on top of all the slop, thus rendering it basically useless for when you really need it.

 

10 hours ago, Bird said:

Some of us don't target pike but they've targeted my wallet lately, beautiful fish though. 

I haven't targeted a pike in over 20 years!  But somehow they target me over and over and over...

[Jleebesaw]

13 hours ago, Cdn Angler said:

I've caught 50-100 pike/2 muskie on whopper ploppers and no break offs yet. They usually aren't able to engulf the whole thing it seems like. 

 

Jerkbaits, jigs, swimbaits...another story. 

Must have s been hammer handle pike. Mature pike can eat bigger objects than mature bass for sure.

   Mature muskies will eat mature bass.

[NYWayfarer]

17 hours ago, MassYak85 said:

There are certain lures I won't fish from the bank, this being one of them. 

Ditto.

[MGF]

22 hours ago, GReb said:

No different than buying a $200+ rod or reel. Or a $75k bass boat and $60k truck. Or $1000 rifle and $15k side by side. Or $150 running shoes. $90 button down shirt. 
 

Why make money if you don’t spend money ?

LOL, I wouldn't know.

[Mjmj]

Fishing today in a 5+ acre area of the lake. The milfoil was about 2 feet from the surface. I was throwing my jackhammer just popping the tops of the milfoil. I felt the rod load and set the hook. My line came flying back without the jackhammer. I was ticked. I had just checked my line and knot about 3 casts before. Later I moved the boat about 50 yards. 5 minutes  my buddy  in the back says he's snagged. I move the boat a little and he's says he's ok it just my lure and starts laughing. About a minute later he's laughing his ass off. I turn around and he has my jackhammer in his hand. 

[Herbert Lorenzo]

Yep , that is exactly what I felt and looked like last week when I was fishing at the bow of my boat went to lift up trolling motor and somehow dropped my rod into the water . I reached out as it was in the air , touched it , as it slipped my grip and .....that was the last I saw of one of my favorite rods . Failed at later recovery efforts .

[Bluebasser86]

Had this feeling watching my Donut Shad skipping across the surface before sinking well beyond the "No Boats", buoys at the power plant lake. At least I got to catch a few fish on it before I cast it off.