Anything better then smallies on jerkbaits?

[Drew03cmc]

Topwater walking baits in small creeks for me.

[clawman]

On 8/15/2021 at 6:41 PM, Bdnoble84 said:

Jerkbaits are up there, but i live when im burning a spinnerbait and they smash it

Preferences in spinner baits? size, color skirt, blades???

Thanks

[DogBone_384]

On 8/16/2021 at 7:47 AM, TnRiver46 said:

I don’t catch many smallies on jerkbait. “Be a lot cooler if I did!”

AMEN … 

[Saltysmalljaws]

  The jerkbait is legitimately my favorite presentation. It is a year round tool for me. Any time of the year apart from the dead of the winter, get in the wind, find bait and toss the JB and you’ll get results. With the depth ranges available it’s easy to call them out of 20+ fow. Also a shallow diving or high floating jerkbait has been a great alternative when the smallies Don’t want to fully commit to topwater. Long lining them is a great way to get more depth and approach a highly pressured or extremely clear fishery.

[InfantryMP]

On 8/21/2021 at 11:48 PM, Drew03cmc said:

Topwater walking baits in small creeks for me.

and whopper ploppers in the creeks. Where I am in the north, they hit top water all day.

[Spankey]

I think the jerkbait is a great bait and producer. Admittedly I’m not worth a darn at fishing it. My best results are from fishing it more like a crankbait. 

[JLBBass]

crankbaits, spinnerbaits and jerkbaits are my favorite

[Bdnoble84]

On 8/24/2021 at 7:03 AM, clawman said:

Preferences in spinner baits? size, color skirt, blades???

Thanks

3/8 oz homemade spinnerbait. White chart skirt with white and chart willow blades, or a white shad pattern with double willow blades. Blade color based on cloud cover.

[TheBasslayer]

I caught my PB Smallmouth Bass on a dock with a deep-diving jerkbait so I can say I think there is nothing better!

[islandbass]

Great job, NH!  Hmmm. I need to build an arsenal of them. Never caught a smallie on a jerk bait. Sounds like fun. I have a couple of husky jerks and xraps. Any others to consider? What about line? Maybe 10# mono?

 

As I mentioned in another thread, I have not even had a chance to target smallies yet. 
 

My attention has been diverted toward honey do list items or trying to catch salmon and cracking the code on late summer/fall largies as a shore angler. Both have been dismal so far but that’s just paying dues. Just not enough time in the day, lol. Maybe targeting smallies could provide a respite to my suffering. 

[Zachh Nute]

Personally, I love catching smallies deep with my Active Target. Video Game fishing is alot of fun.

[Greyson]

Yeah. The only thing better is standing in a river fishing a fluke, but that is practically a jerk air itself. 

[Fallser]

With conventional tackle top water.  But the best for me is hooking a 3 or 4 lb smallie on my fly rod with a top water bass bug.   I use a 6 wgt, which is the light end of what most fly fishers use for bass.

[OldManLure]

I do love the bite on a jerkbait, but I haven't experienced any bite more exciting than on a topwater.  I can't think of anything that compares to seeing it, hearing it, and feeling it.  Boating it can sometimes seem almost anitclimactic.  

[soflabasser]

Nice smallmouth bass. For me nothing beats catching a big powerful gamefish on a topwater lure when it comes to rod and reel fishing.

[Fat Ika]

On 11/16/2021 at 5:31 PM, OldManLure said:

I do love the bite on a jerkbait, but I haven't experienced any bite more exciting than on a topwater.  I can't think of anything that compares to seeing it, hearing it, and feeling it.  Boating it can sometimes seem almost anitclimactic.  

Popper and jerkbait are a tie for me. Hopefully burning a spinnerbait will be up there If I can gain the confidence to understand smallie spinnerbait fishing. I’m going to start a thread on smallie spinnerbaiting now. 

[cyclops2]

Location location at SUNDOWN for 20 minutes. C & R  with all sizes of SMB & a pike or 2.  Away from the dock with reeds & loose rocks.

 

Until 2 years ago. When they stopped Septic tanks pumping out the sludge...   That eliminated all weeds. And the fish cycle.  Before that ended .

You KNEW the bass were headed right to where the lure would land.  I took seniors 100' from the dock so their surface plugs would splash.   B C reel heaven back then.   3 of us in 16' laughing all the 20 minutes. Then nothing.

[PaulVE64]

New goal for the coming season will be ....

River wading a 6wt with a Wilderdiltch streamer that i hand tied that morning  for a +3# smallie.

[Rob St Croix]

I throw Rapala Shadow Raps and Shadow Rap Shads with great success in the Great Miami.

 

[TonynswAR]

I’m learning tricks for SM from a local where I reside part of the year, near Harrisburg,PA. Jerkbaits, hard an soft, the hard is a yo-zuri 3DS 70mm Ayu in the creeks and rivers. The soft is a white fluke tail dipped chartruese and nose hooked on a 1/0-1 drop shot hook. Have only been fishing for smalls for 4 years, PB so far is 18 3/4” on the Ayu wading in 2ft of H2O.

[Spankey]

A nice 19-20” river smallie slamming a Chug Bug or Pop-R breaking the surface what appears to be 2 or 3 feet. But maybe actually was only 18”. But I’m sticking to the 2 or 3 feet for now. 

[soflabasser]

Swimbaits and spinnerbaits are also good lures for smallmouth bass.