What's the difference between crankbait and jerkbait?

Crankbaits are generally shorter and fatter, while jerkbaits are slender and longer. Jerkbaits mostly have three treble hooks, while crankbaits have two. The most common types of bills for both jerkbaits and crankbaits include square bills, diamond-shaped bills, and rounded bills.

What are crankbaits used for?

A crankbait is a moving bait made for catching the predatory species of fish under the surface as a moving animal imitating a baitfish in its environment. These lures are designed so that the user can control how deep they dive in the water.

Are jerkbaits good for bass?

Jerkbaits are one of the few bass lures that are highly effective year round. The main reason is because of how much control you have over their action. They can be fished extremely fast or slow, deep or shallow, or anywhere in between.

What do you use jerkbait for?

The jerkbait is a small, hard bait used to fish for bass. The bait has been designed to move like a struggling minnow, which will make the predatory bass react and strike at the bait. Jerkbaits are long and narrow, usually between 3–6 inches (7.6–15.2 cm), and have 3 treble hooks dangling from their underside and tail.

Is a jerkbait topwater?

Designed to be used primarily as a topwater bait, the Spintail can also be twitched 2-3 feet under the surface and will rise head first during the pause just like a real minnow.

Crankbaits vs. Jerkbaits... What's the difference?

Is a Rapala a jerkbait?

Rapala has perfected the natural minnow action in this new jerkbait that triggers fish in three ways: on the kick, on a slow fading fall and on the snap back to life. Most jerk baits continue on a forward plane with each jerk.

Can you troll a jerkbait?

Traditionally, bass anglers cast jerkbaits while walleye anglers troll them, spring and fall. Both types of anglers want to cover water. Trolling jerkbaits along riprap or over shallow sand, gravel and rock contours catches big walleyes every year.

Do jerkbaits work in dirty water?

“My rule is, 'the dirtier the water, the closer you want to put that jerkbait to the fish. ' If water is dirty, I move shallower. If I am fishing over structure and fish that are 8-feet deep, I will fish that Rogue as close as I can without getting hung up.”

Is crankbait good for bass?

Crankbaits are some of the most powerful bass lures, because anglers can cover a large amount of water in little time. Often, bass anglers use crankbaits to scout unfamiliar waters quickly and find the areas with the most bass.

What is a Texas rig in fishing?

The Texas Rig is a technique used for fishing soft plastic lures. It involves a bullet weight being threaded onto the line first followed by an optional glass or plastic bead, and then the line is secured to a hook, usually an offset worm hook. Very good for bass fishing.

How do you fish a jerkbait?

How fast do you reel a crankbait?

A large spool picks up more line per turn that a small spool. The same thing is true if your spool is full or half empty. Everything works together. The correct speed of any crankbait reel is 21 inches of line pick-up per turn of the reel handle.

What rod is best for jerkbaits?

What is a suspending jerkbait?

A suspending jerkbait is a prime lure to throw after the fall turnover on Northern lakes when smallmouth bass scatter and suspend. You can catch these roaming smallmouths on a suspending jerkbait worked along sandy bottoms that quickly drop from a 5-foot flat to 20 feet deep.

What gear ratio is best for jerkbaits?

Jerkbaits: Jerkbait fishing is optimized by using a reel that has a gear ratio of approximately 6.3:1 or slightly higher. This speed reel allows for enough power to straight retrieve deeper diving jerkbaits, but enough speed to take in line slack when going through the jerkbait retrieve cadence.

Why do they call it crankbait?

A crankbait is a fishing lure usually made out of hard plastic or carved from wood. It is formed to mimic the swimming action of a baitfish, crayfish or other prey.

Do jerkbaits work in winter?

Jerkbaits are some of the best lures to use when fishing for bass in the winter. To be fair, jerkbaits are excellent tools for bass anglers all year long; but when the water temperatures drop into the mid 40s and below, jerkbaits become one of the most productive options for targeting bass.

What speed should I troll for bass?

It takes a bit of experimenting to get the speed right, but for typical bass crankbaits it's anywhere from 2 to 4 mph--you can tell prime speed because that's where the rod bows up most.

Can you troll for largemouth bass?

Yes. Trolling for bass with crankbaits, swimbaits and spinnerbaits is a highly effective method for efficiently locating bass holding to deeper structure or along submerged weed lines. While trolling for largemouth may be against the rules in tournaments, it is fair game for the casual angler.