{"id":14137,"date":"2024-11-25T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=14137"},"modified":"2024-11-25T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:14:04","slug":"fishing-tip-of-the-week-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=14137","title":{"rendered":"Fishing tip of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Come Back Jerk Bait<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Mike Gerry<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we are progressing from fall into winter no bait has shown its ability to catch a fish this fall like a jerk bait. We are moving into the coldest water of the fall and the starting of winter it reminds of the success I have had fishing jerk baits over the many years they have existed. I can easily state that jerk baits have been a consistent performer of my fishing over many years especially in the cooling water temperatures. To me there are some important tips that make a jerk bait work for you.<!--more--><br \/>\nThere is without a doubt some different performances with jerk baits, many are subtle so as you choose your favorite make sure your jerk bait has plenty of side-to-side movement, that it responds to subtle tip movement and that you can cast it into the wind. Long cast are paramount for a jerk bait to attract a bite, bass are followers and react when something moves your bait in a way that causes them to attack it. With a long cast you have more of an opportunity for the bass to react to a movement you caused.<\/p>\n<p>The key performance of jerk bait is all controlled by your rod performance, reel speed and wrist action. You just have to make sure your rigged properly, medium heavy rod, 6:3:1 reel speed and the ability to move your wrist sharply, quickly and precisely.<\/p>\n<p>The next key is your pause; I find that the colder the water the more patient you need to be with your pause of the bait. I have seen some days in the coldest part of the winter that you should pause as long as 10 seconds. I also make sure that I vary the tip action so the movement changes constantly through the retrieve process. Many times I do quick snaps in a row, other I leave a pause in-between the snaps, and I vary the pause allowing 2 to 10 seconds giving the bait time to attract a fish. <br \/>\nLastly I change the depth of the bait with tip presentation; the higher you hold your rod tip the shallower the bait will go. Hold it down it goes deeper, keep it up it stays shallow, all part of finding a retrieve that catches fish!<br \/>\n<em>Captain Mike<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Come Back Jerk Bait by Mike Gerry As we are progressing from fall into winter no bait has shown its ability to catch a fish this fall like a jerk bait. We are moving into the coldest water of the fall and the starting of winter it reminds of the success I have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14138,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions\/14138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}