Jerk Bait Bite

[*T*]

Love the jerk bait bite. Can fish it much of the day even with limited success, just knowing that any moment a big'un is gonna load up on it. Will give it a shot tomorrow, but at LOZ rather than T Rock.

Just what is it about that bite that makes it so exciting, so much fun and a favorite of many, me being one?

[fishinwrench]

It's a pleasant change of pace from picking at brushpiles and docks for months at a time, that's for sure. It's only a half-step behind a good topwater bite.

[Pepe]

I had no luck on it today throwing a McStick 3-5 ft model on bluff ends and points. Virtually every place I intended to stop had a boat on it the first time I went there, so I spent the day moving on and doubling back later; fishing behind other folks. I dont know that it made any difference as I was never sure how many times to jerk the bait or how long to pause so I just mixed it up. I had one bite. Loaded the rod, shook its head and was gone.

How do they spit out those sharp treble hooks? Those hooks manage to grab every other thing they get near:)

I'm going to stay with it but I miss my jigs, worms and soft swimbaits.

[sixstring531]

We put in at Aunts Creek and ran around James River today. After a lengthy start - ok, so the starting battery was 10 years old and didn't hold a charge; good thing Wally World was 20 minutes away - I hit a well-fed kentucky on a blue McStick. Maybe the second cast.

Fast foward a few hours and we have two more bass on an umbrella, one on a menace (of all things) and I get a nice walleye on the same McStick. We did the standard primary and secondary points/bluffs/chunky rock.

We decided to work our way back home and made one final stop in a timbery cove with some docks. We started graphing some good fish (our graph is old and we catch fish whether they're showing or not) and I turn around and my dad starts hooking up. All the bass (kentucky and one smalley) were 25-50 fow and were quite feisty. They were definitely well-fed fish!

So - we really didn't catch a huge number today, but it was definitely nice to get out and enjoy the water.

Our fish came on:

Blue McStick

Umbrella with spinners and a combo white/silver swimmers

menace, summer craw

silver strata spoon