Here's my add on; let it sit on the surface for a couple seconds before giving it a couple little twitches then going into your normal cadence. It's like the minnow got chucked into the water and is stunned before waking up
Got my first ever striped bass bite like that in California. As soon as my 120 jerkbait landed, I got a top water strike and thankfully landed the keeper striped bass.
A couple years ago on my lake I was playing around with this in a similar way. The bite was rough. I started throwing the jerk bait out, reel it in pause then a few twitches then reel. They went absolutely crazy over it. My buddy I was with started calling it the crank jerk lol. Great video man as always!
In my bass class I teach that retrieve on my lake that is really the only way they will strike my jerkbait Lure, a couple of quick snap and pops then straight reeling for three or four feet. It's a great technique. I do ask my students to make sure they are subscribed to your show. Thanks a lot for backing my tips up. With this video.😊😊😊
I often wondered about what exactly to do when the jerk bait first hits the water. I'll try this! Cast, two quick jerks and then burn the bait down with 5 fast turns. Let bait pause for a few seconds and begin your cadence. Got it.
Great video Mikey! I'm using a 6'10 Halo hfx now you got me thinking about a longer one, also becoming a huge fan of the xd3! Can't beat how light they are
I agree, we definitely underestimate how fast bass can move. Learned this first hand on another bait. Missed a bite in cover on plastic and reeled in with the lure surfing on top. It got CRUSHED on the way in and have caught many since that way (with the right conditions).
My dad taught me how to troll for bass. We each throw out a deep diver. We mostly used shad rap type baits. But there are many that work. But we trolled with the big motor at idle speed or just slightly faster. And u will catch them really good. After u learn that it isn't to fast u can cover a lot of water and find a lot of new spots why actually having a line out
Sounds like a hybrid hunter bill on a jerkbait needs manufactured for that ultra shallow specific technique huh Mikey!? Great stuff, luv learning from ya, your passion, knowledge, and high energy for this game is contagious in a great way! Helluva stick bro, thank you 🤝
I've always ripped a jerkbait by long rod sweeps as one of my options. Learned as a kid before i knew about the suspending baits. And other advanced techniques.
I knew what you were going to talk about before I watched the video. As a Canadian, I use jerkbaits a ton around the Great Lakes. I know all about burning jerkbaits. 😂
Thanks for the tips 👍 I can say speed cranking is also the 🧃 right now. Like you said TB put me on that technique and it paid off with a 8.82lb largemouth last week. Gonna give the speed jerk a turn
About time. Where have you been? I thought this was how you're supposed to fish a jerkbait. The Stunna is my go-to. It's a great value over the Mega Bass. I just ordered some smaller versions to match the smaller shad.
This will work with just about any plug...even top water. I fish mostly for salt water striped bass on Long Island and I do the same exact thing with a surface popper or spook sometimes to get them to bite. It looks stupid, like you said, but when nothing else works working the plug in the most eratic, fast way can get them biting.
I'm a bank fisher. No electronics to see how the fish react. I feel like the jerk bait is like trying to figure out the combination to a lock. Cut to the chase. They only would hit it this particular day after twitches, pauses, and then just a fast reel turn. That last simple reel turn closed the deal. It worked for the Provoke 97 and the Vision Jr. Jerkbaits make me absolutely nuts
Back when I was a kid many decades ago,we used to crank balsa Rapala’s on spinning reel combo’s, real fast. We never jerked, just cast and reel. The bass would smash them. I am sure the Rapala never got more than a couple feet deep.
I've been doing this for years, but only on certain jerkbaits. It started as a way to get them to their 'happy' depth so to speak, some quick cranks. And then every now and then I'd crank through just to get some more vibration/big movements and change up the rhythm. Lots of times the strike would come on the first twitch after I cranked and stopped. Seemed to have better luck in the early spring moreso than later in the year though.
Try a floating Rápala only dives so deep for fishing shallow , or a count down one to fish any depth. Both won’t blow out no matter how fast you fish them. Either one will stay under the surface no matter how fast you reel them, this is how they were designed.
In shallow water for schooling fish and especially during the herring spawn, I file the bill down to make it more erratic and run shallower. Take about half off, try it on an old one first
Hey Mikey! I think they like it! I can attest to this same thing even with those stocked trout. I can throw the smallest in-line spinner they make. It’s like 1/32 of oz at them all day and just straight retrieve. They might look at it. But the second that I start letting it sink and then jerking the living crap out of it…. Yes. That’s right. I said jerking an in-line spinner. They go ballistic. Absolutely nuts. It doesn’t look right. It doesn’t move right. It’s not made to be fished that way. But they love it. 😊
Love jerk bait fishing this time of year! Thanks for the tip!! Sometimes I find that a pull, almost like dragging a jig, will get a lot of bites when water is cold. They seem to bite more on the pause. The line will just start moving.
@robertbrost7777 that is correct. I usually reel down a few cranks just to get it under water a bit, I also use a piece of soldering wire to get a perfect suspension. Then just kindof pull slowly, almost like pulling a shaky head, but to the side not up.
Dude I’ve been doing this for a few years 😂 caught a 9.5 and 7 doing it in early spring. I don’t know how to add a photo or I would attach both of them. It definitely works
I noticed you tied directly to a split ring with a Palomar or Cinch type knot............Have you ever tried removing the split ring and then tie a loop knot? A oneten tied with 8lbs on a 6'3 or 6'6 spinning outfit has unbelievable action.......Also, using thin golf head lead tape under the belly for extremely slow sinking..........I agree, using a jerkbait all year round always works.......
Did you know that that’s what started the. Jerk bait started. 🤔🤔. A early pro bass fisher in his teenage age was fishing out of a Jon boat. Where the same thing was happening too him could buy a bit. Until he got frustrated and was giving up just started reeling his regular Rapala in really fast was going too go home. Fish smashed it. He figured out that’s what he need to do to get bit. And started tweaking it to cast farther and that stuff. Later when he became a pro that was part of his arsenal. Can’t recall his name right now. But this started back in the 70’s.
Over summer I was fishing a tournament here in Missouri. It was 100+ degrees. I started throwing a matt shad Stunna and caught three heavy keepers. Not just a cold water bait.
I couldn't tell you how many 15 to 25 pound snook I've caught with a 5 inch jerk bait going "twitch twitch burn pause". The strike always comes on the pause or the first twitch after a pause.
Jerk bait is easy to pick up but hard to master. Many tricks. Some day they like slow twitch some days fast twitch, some days twitch and pause some days burn it other day let it suspend.
Mikey u need to use the oo7, 008, or 009 Jackall Riser Bait and work them the same as your talking about with jerkbaits, when u pause it sinks and shimies down, killer trick, but ssssshhhhhhh don't tell everybody!!!!!!
I’ve watched so many videos of guys claiming they have the secret but in 30+ years I’ve never caught with the dozens of different lures I’ve collected. Hope this is the key.
Had zero confidence in a jerk bait until today. Got out just as a front was going through and got a couple on the jerk bait, including a nice 3.5 pounder today! I put a Megabass 110 Junior in Matte Shad on and used small twitches and a slight pull to land her. Faith not totally restored and, I think the front made them active but, there isn't a better feeling than a jerk bait bite! One other thing, I saw in the video you caught bass with a Perch patterned JB. I absolutely CANNOT get my bass to hit my Nanahan + 1 in Perch. It's smaller and everything and yet NOTHING! Do Perch not die and twitch in cold water? Is it unnatural? WTH
People have been reeling and reel bursting jerkbaits for at least 50 years lol. Everyone thinks a jerkbait is a one style of retrieve bait and it's not. I've seen straight crankbait retrieves catch 10 to 1 over a jerk pause cadence.
Jerkbaits are definitely my weak link. I probably have a $1000.00 invested in them and can't think of but one fish that I've caught on them, I would love to do better
Bro i really like your videos but watching you just hunt fish on livescope really doesn't offer much entertainment value and diminishes the educational value of your videos. I would like this channel 10x more if you spent less time just watching the FF..either way hope you grow, just suggesting what i think most viewers want to see
Appreciate the honesty man. I'm trying to kind of balance between the two I like the forward facing deal and I share the things that I'm learning about in the videos so that's going to be a component but at the same time I don't want to totally lose sight of more traditional approaches. So I guess to put it simply I'm trying balance it out.
U give more good honest tip s then 98% of all the other u tube channels out there very educational keep up the good work
Appreciate that homie! I just try to keep it real and share the stuff that I learn. Thanks for tuning in!
@mikeybalzz I just wished u still fished on Harris chain I loved those older videos. I'm in Daytona so anything Florida I liked.
Here's my add on; let it sit on the surface for a couple seconds before giving it a couple little twitches then going into your normal cadence. It's like the minnow got chucked into the water and is stunned before waking up
Rapala 13S
this is a great idea
Got my first ever striped bass bite like that in California. As soon as my 120 jerkbait landed, I got a top water strike and thankfully landed the keeper striped bass.
Let’s get this guy over 100k ALREADY!!
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Love that you actually address and teach what your “click bait” titles say! You are man of word and good feller
A couple years ago on my lake I was playing around with this in a similar way. The bite was rough. I started throwing the jerk bait out, reel it in pause then a few twitches then reel. They went absolutely crazy over it. My buddy I was with started calling it the crank jerk lol. Great video man as always!
In my bass class I teach that retrieve on my lake that is really the only way they will strike my jerkbait Lure, a couple of quick snap and pops then straight reeling for three or four feet. It's a great technique. I do ask my students to make sure they are subscribed to your show. Thanks a lot for backing my tips up. With this video.😊😊😊
I often wondered about what exactly to do when the jerk bait first hits the water. I'll try this! Cast, two quick jerks and then burn the bait down with 5 fast turns. Let bait pause for a few seconds and begin your cadence. Got it.
Great video Mikey! I'm using a 6'10 Halo hfx now you got me thinking about a longer one, also becoming a huge fan of the xd3! Can't beat how light they are
Great video. Why do you believe it is harder to do with a spinning reel? (I typically fish jerkbaits on a spinning gear, except for ones >110mm.)
Great video Mikey!
I agree, we definitely underestimate how fast bass can move. Learned this first hand on another bait. Missed a bite in cover on plastic and reeled in with the lure surfing on top. It got CRUSHED on the way in and have caught many since that way (with the right conditions).
Thanks for confirming my my findings on the Stunna 100
Makes sense. It is amazing how fast a bass can swim when you get them going!❤
My dad taught me how to troll for bass. We each throw out a deep diver. We mostly used shad rap type baits. But there are many that work. But we trolled with the big motor at idle speed or just slightly faster. And u will catch them really good. After u learn that it isn't to fast u can cover a lot of water and find a lot of new spots why actually having a line out
Sounds like a hybrid hunter bill on a jerkbait needs manufactured for that ultra shallow specific technique huh Mikey!? Great stuff, luv learning from ya, your passion, knowledge, and high energy for this game is contagious in a great way! Helluva stick bro, thank you 🤝
Great Jerk bait tip 👊🏻😎🐟🎣
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Appreciate the tip. I just started to really dig in and learn this technique. I was tired of being chastised for not throwing a jerk bait.
I've always ripped a jerkbait by long rod sweeps as one of my options. Learned as a kid before i knew about the suspending baits. And other advanced techniques.
I knew what you were going to talk about before I watched the video. As a Canadian, I use jerkbaits a ton around the Great Lakes. I know all about burning jerkbaits. 😂
Thanks for the tips 👍 I can say speed cranking is also the 🧃 right now. Like you said TB put me on that technique and it paid off with a 8.82lb largemouth last week. Gonna give the speed jerk a turn
About time. Where have you been? I thought this was how you're supposed to fish a jerkbait. The Stunna is my go-to. It's a great value over the Mega Bass. I just ordered some smaller versions to match the smaller shad.
I’ve experienced it, nd it’s phenomenal I slayed em last weekend. About to hit em again today
Great info Mikey!!
Love the Juice! I just might go to Jerkbaits and flipping only.
This same technique works extremely well for speckled trout.
This will work with just about any plug...even top water. I fish mostly for salt water striped bass on Long Island and I do the same exact thing with a surface popper or spook sometimes to get them to bite. It looks stupid, like you said, but when nothing else works working the plug in the most eratic, fast way can get them biting.
Megabass Great Hunting 95’s are great for this shallow water trick too. I do this along our sea wall frequently.
Nice too know about the stunna.
Sixth Sense 106 ftw ❤
I'm a bank fisher. No electronics to see how the fish react. I feel like the jerk bait is like trying to figure out the combination to a lock. Cut to the chase. They only would hit it this particular day after twitches, pauses, and then just a fast reel turn. That last simple reel turn closed the deal. It worked for the Provoke 97 and the Vision Jr. Jerkbaits make me absolutely nuts
Back when I was a kid many decades ago,we used to crank balsa Rapala’s on spinning reel combo’s, real fast. We never jerked, just cast and reel. The bass would smash them. I am sure the Rapala never got more than a couple feet deep.
I've been doing this for years, but only on certain jerkbaits. It started as a way to get them to their 'happy' depth so to speak, some quick cranks. And then every now and then I'd crank through just to get some more vibration/big movements and change up the rhythm. Lots of times the strike would come on the first twitch after I cranked and stopped. Seemed to have better luck in the early spring moreso than later in the year though.
Great info, wonder if this would work well from shore? I mostly bank fish.
Word. Been throwing a 100 lately. Looking for them cold boys.
Try a floating Rápala only dives so deep for fishing shallow , or a count down one
to fish any depth. Both won’t blow out no matter how fast you fish them. Either one will stay under the surface no matter how fast you reel them,
this is how they were designed.
Very cool going to try this !!! T y
Rapala shadow rap shad deep. Burn burn burn, pause🤫
Long pulls like this is how most Japanese fish jerk baits. In the U.S. we tend to do lots of smaller jerks, but they tend to make long sweeping pulls.
In shallow water for schooling fish and especially during the herring spawn, I file the bill down to make it more erratic and run shallower. Take about half off, try it on an old one first
That's a risky move, depending on the lure. It effects action as well. You take out too much on certain lures and you can throw it in trash.
Sounds fun
Hey Mikey! I think they like it!
I can attest to this same thing even with those stocked trout.
I can throw the smallest in-line spinner they make. It’s like 1/32 of oz at them all day and just straight retrieve. They might look at it.
But the second that I start letting it sink and then jerking the living crap out of it…. Yes. That’s right. I said jerking an in-line spinner.
They go ballistic. Absolutely nuts.
It doesn’t look right. It doesn’t move right. It’s not made to be fished that way. But they love it.
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Slow retrieve with occasional twitches on 9” nessie. If they are busting on shad
I have tried putting a jerkbait Mega bass on a Suffix lead core line 36 lb it works !! Striped bass go after it😊
Love jerk bait fishing this time of year! Thanks for the tip!! Sometimes I find that a pull, almost like dragging a jig, will get a lot of bites when water is cold. They seem to bite more on the pause. The line will just start moving.
I caught a nice one today by doing just that. Did my twitches and then "dragged" her slowly and that's when she hit it! It works!
Are you talking about not "jerking" the jerk bait at all? Just drag it from the start? Hmm. If so, I have to try this!
@robertbrost7777 that is correct. I usually reel down a few cranks just to get it under water a bit, I also use a piece of soldering wire to get a perfect suspension. Then just kindof pull slowly, almost like pulling a shaky head, but to the side not up.
@@jbsed1 I use solder for weight on my jerk baits too. No twitches, no jerking, just pulling? I guess in your case it's a "pull" bait.
I have 5 Plano 3700 boxes w a lot of jerk bait and I love to catch fish on a jerk bait!
Also, I use the Rapala Shadow Rap for really shallow water!!
Man I do it here on Murray. It’s killer!
I think i seen tyler berger from bassfishinghq mention this last year, coincidentally i believe he credited learning it from one MikeyBalzz himself!
Dude I’ve been doing this for a few years 😂 caught a 9.5 and 7 doing it in early spring. I don’t know how to add a photo or I would attach both of them. It definitely works
Damn I would lose it catching a 9 1/2 on a jerkbait that must have been a crazy fight!
@ it definitely was 🤣
I noticed you tied directly to a split ring with a Palomar or Cinch type knot............Have you ever tried removing the split ring and then tie a loop knot? A oneten tied with 8lbs on a 6'3 or 6'6 spinning outfit has unbelievable action.......Also, using thin golf head lead tape under the belly for extremely slow sinking..........I agree, using a jerkbait all year round always works.......
Split ring is there to remove the need for loop knot. It's usually there for when you are using snaps for quick bait changing.
6th Sense Provoke DD, catches most of my bass.
Did you know that that’s what started the. Jerk bait started. 🤔🤔. A early pro bass fisher in his teenage age was fishing out of a Jon boat. Where the same thing was happening too him could buy a bit. Until he got frustrated and was giving up just started reeling his regular Rapala in really fast was going too go home. Fish smashed it. He figured out that’s what he need to do to get bit. And started tweaking it to cast farther and that stuff. Later when he became a pro that was part of his arsenal. Can’t recall his name right now. But this started back in the 70’s.
Over summer I was fishing a tournament here in Missouri. It was 100+ degrees. I started throwing a matt shad Stunna and caught three heavy keepers. Not just a cold water bait.
Is that Tuckertown lake in NC?
The deps balisong minnow was made specifically for this technique.
I couldn't tell you how many 15 to 25 pound snook I've caught with a 5 inch jerk bait going "twitch twitch burn pause". The strike always comes on the pause or the first twitch after a pause.
Jerk bait is easy to pick up but hard to master. Many tricks. Some day they like slow twitch some days fast twitch, some days twitch and pause some days burn it other day let it suspend.
Mikey u need to use the oo7, 008, or 009 Jackall Riser Bait and work them the same as your talking about with jerkbaits, when u pause it sinks and shimies down, killer trick, but ssssshhhhhhh don't tell everybody!!!!!!
Was trying to think of the name of that, haven't tried it, but technique is what that bait was made for from videos I've seen
I’ve watched so many videos of guys claiming they have the secret but in 30+ years I’ve never caught with the dozens of different lures I’ve collected. Hope this is the key.
Thank you for this one it made me click
I fish JB’s a lot. Can’t wait to try this technique when there not reacting to a normal cadence. Thanks for sharing
My dude! I gotta get you some paper towels to clean up all the juice you been spilling! Lol.
Megabass Karashi
Had zero confidence in a jerk bait until today. Got out just as a front was going through and got a couple on the jerk bait, including a nice 3.5 pounder today! I put a Megabass 110 Junior in Matte Shad on and used small twitches and a slight pull to land her. Faith not totally restored and, I think the front made them active but, there isn't a better feeling than a jerk bait bite! One other thing, I saw in the video you caught bass with a Perch patterned JB. I absolutely CANNOT get my bass to hit my Nanahan + 1 in Perch. It's smaller and everything and yet NOTHING! Do Perch not die and twitch in cold water? Is it unnatural? WTH
People have been reeling and reel bursting jerkbaits for at least 50 years lol. Everyone thinks a jerkbait is a one style of retrieve bait and it's not. I've seen straight crankbait retrieves catch 10 to 1 over a jerk pause cadence.
honestly all I do is burn the lures in. jerk. crank. all of it.
Jerkbaits are definitely my weak link. I probably have a $1000.00 invested in them and can't think of but one fish that I've caught on them, I would love to do better
Sixth Sense 6 German
Burning a fluke for really shallow stuff?
Yeah 100% the same concept man
thumbs down and theres a button that says "do not recommend". use it
Bro i really like your videos but watching you just hunt fish on livescope really doesn't offer much entertainment value and diminishes the educational value of your videos. I would like this channel 10x more if you spent less time just watching the FF..either way hope you grow, just suggesting what i think most viewers want to see
Appreciate the honesty man. I'm trying to kind of balance between the two I like the forward facing deal and I share the things that I'm learning about in the videos so that's going to be a component but at the same time I don't want to totally lose sight of more traditional approaches. So I guess to put it simply I'm trying balance it out.
ok you gotta stop lol just stop smh
If you like burning one get the old rogues they are best for it
Bud we have been doing that on lake Erie for 20 years except more of a burn it for 10ft then stop pop pop pop then burn it 5 ft and so on
A bait fish will swim fast then a hesitation when changing directions..trust me you will get more bites combining the 2 retrieves together......