The Jerkbait Suspension Lie: Why Your Bait is Slowly Floating Away
If your suspending jerkbait slowly rises toward the surface during a pause, you are ruining the exact presentation that triggers cold-water bass to bite.
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If your suspending jerkbait slowly rises toward the surface during a pause, you are ruining the exact presentation that triggers cold-water bass to bite.
A lipless crankbait is one of the best cold-water bass lures ever invented. But if you are simply casting it out and reeling it straight back in, you are missing 90% of the bites.
A suspending jerkbait is the deadliest lure in existence when the water temperature plummets. But if you aren't pausing long enough, you are completely wasting your time.
Everyone slaps a craw trailer on a flipping jig, but if you want to trigger reaction strikes in cold or highly pressured water, you need to rethink your plastic.
It looks like a broken piece of plastic glued to a mushroom jig head. But when the bite gets unbelievably tough, the Ned Rig will catch fish when nothing else in your boat can.
If you are fishing a jerkbait with the exact same rhythm all day, you are missing the point of the lure. The magic isn't in the twitch; it's in the unpredictable pause.