Saturday, we helped a young kid respool his reel. he was in kahoots with the bait monkey.

[Darth-Baiter]

we were pulling in our kayaks.  he was on the docks.  cool kid.  brave.  talked to us.  i spared him the "stranger danger(!)" lecture and told him to cast to the tule line.  he said he didnt have enough line.  my friend Steve jumped into action.  the kid produced a spool of line and we put it on his reel.   he had these tiny shad colored swim baits and we said, "use these!"  he said, "NOPE" i want to try this."  he pulls out a tiny Rapala jerkbait.  i tie it on and did a practice cast.  it looked so cool darting back to me.    we handed the rod to the kid and gave him a high five.  

 

i spent the weekend thinking about tiny jerkbaits.  i googled a few.  i think a tiny jerkbait would kill on some of my local lakes.  especially in the winter!!  and fun on a BFS setup.  now i have a fistfull of MegaBass X-Nanohans on the way.  that darn kid!!!  the tiny monkey is a young, brown hair kid with thick eyeglasses!!  i bet Steve is buying them as well.  he will when he sees mine..mahuuwwahhhaha!

[Bass Rutten]

Preaching to the choir, I have boxes of expensive full size jerks... megabass, duos etc, can't seem to buy a bite on them most days. Tie on smaller 2.5 to 3 inch jerks however and the skies open up and fish of all species rain down, I've caught crappie, bluegill, walleye, rockbass, perch, carp, drum, pike, and of course bass (black, brown, and white) on small jerks.

[GreenPig]

I've caught some nice bass on tiny JB's.? Seriously. 

[NorcalBassin]

9 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

...now i have a fistfull of MegaBass X-Nanohans on the way.

I recently got into small jdm jb's/minnow baits after not having anything in the box to mimic small smelt and threadfin. Saw an x-nanahan video by thehookuptackle guys the other day and really struggled to resist adding a few of those to the collection. I'm curious to hear what you think of them.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

8 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

I recently got into small jdm jb's/minnow baits after not having anything in the box to mimic small smelt and threadfin. Saw an x-nanahan video by thehookuptackle guys the other day and really struggled to resist adding a few of those to the collection. I'm curious to hear what you think of them.

What have you found that mimics the small Threadfins in the JDM side of things?.....maybe I don't really want to know lol ?

[NorcalBassin]

You don't want to know. ?

Duo and Daiwa both have some nice options, but since our bait out here is sometimes a little deeper my favorite so far is the Jackall Soul Shad in 45mm (2.7g) or 52mm (4g).

https://www.digitaka.com/items/14/70/35/SPEARHEAD+RYUKI+45S

https://www.digitaka.com/items/24/70/35/SOUL+SHAD+45SP (limited stock but secret shirauo works well).

https://www.digitaka.com/items/24/70/35/SOUL+SHAD+52SP (more in stock options)

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

6 minutes ago, NorcalBassin said:

You don't want to know. ?

Duo and Daiwa both have some nice options, but since our bait out here is sometimes a little deeper my favorite so far is the Jackall Soul Shad in 45mm (2.7g) or 52mm (4g).

https://www.digitaka.com/items/14/70/35/SPEARHEAD+RYUKI+45S

https://www.digitaka.com/items/24/70/35/SOUL+SHAD+45SP (limited stock but secret shirauo works well).

https://www.digitaka.com/items/24/70/35/SOUL+SHAD+52SP (more in stock options)

 

Very nice appreciate it.    Got a B-day coming up.....the Japanese Monkey wants to help me celebrate ?

[Munkin]

LC Pointers 65 are fish catching machines. 

 

Allen 

[Choporoz]

I have a heck of a time keeping anything other than dinks pinned on 65's

[TOXIC]

One year on St Clair during our annual trip was a certain color Staycee jerkbait. Others caught some but that single bait was the ticket.  

[GetFishorDieTryin]

There are quite a few good options on the USDM.  I like Pointers, but the Duo 85 and Rozantes are my favorites.  

[Munkin]

On 10/4/2022 at 6:01 PM, Choporoz said:

I have a heck of a time keeping anything other than dinks pinned on 65's

What kind of rod setup are you using?

 

Allen 

[Choporoz]

6 hours ago, Munkin said:

What kind of rod setup are you using?

 

Allen 

Medium Spinning, 15# braid to leader.  Almost always lose them in first few seconds.

[MidwestBassAttack]

Kudos to you guys for helping a kid out! Those are the types of interactions that never get forgotten and likely fueled his passion even more!

 

Bravo!

[Darth-Baiter]

Not sure I can even. Cast this tiny thing!   I tied it on my BFS for starters. 

[islandbass]

On 10/3/2022 at 10:44 AM, Darth-Baiter said:

we were pulling in our kayaks.  he was on the docks.  cool kid.  brave.  talked to us.  i spared him the "stranger danger(!)" lecture and told him to cast to the tule line.  he said he didnt have enough line.  my friend Steve jumped into action.  the kid produced a spool of line and we put it on his reel.   he had these tiny shad colored swim baits and we said, "use these!"  he said, "NOPE" i want to try this."  he pulls out a tiny Rapala jerkbait.  i tie it on and did a practice cast.  it looked so cool darting back to me.    we handed the rod to the kid and gave him a high five.  

 

i spent the weekend thinking about tiny jerkbaits.  i googled a few.  i think a tiny jerkbait would kill on some of my local lakes.  especially in the winter!!  and fun on a BFS setup.  now i have a fistfull of MegaBass X-Nanohans on the way.  that darn kid!!!  the tiny monkey is a young, brown hair kid with thick eyeglasses!!  i bet Steve is buying them as well.  he will when he sees mine..mahuuwwahhhaha!

Ha! In all my years, I’ve never seen the bait monkey employ such a tactic. He’s evolving, lol! ? Kudos to both of you for helping the kid out. 

[Munkin]

On 10/6/2022 at 6:03 AM, Choporoz said:

Medium Spinning, 15# braid to leader.  Almost always lose them in first few seconds.

 

I am using a medium with 8lb mono and down have that problem.  Biggest fish I have caught is a 18" SM. 

 

Allen 

The baitfish silver one has caught more fish than any other jerkbait I have ever used. I have two of these baits that look like someone took a belt sander to. 

 

Allen