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I just want to add one thing, because of the cold weather in this place, the bass here grows really slow, there are very few smallmouth over 15 inches here, I have fished 10 times in this reservoir, I only got one 16 inch/1.89lbs smallmouth in the spring, most of the smallmouth here are around 10-12 inch. Is the crankbait too fat for them to eat? But these tiny bass even eat their similar body sized Jackall 130 sometimes...

Yes, but I tried the cheap $1 walmart one, cast 3 times, I haven't tried my Megabass yet, a was afraid of snagging, I will try the SV3 next time. I will give the ned rig a try. It's just keep using jerkbait constantly for 6 months is really not that exciting. I typically fish 3-4 hours each time, I had to buy a "jerkbait specific" rod and reel, so I don't have to have half of my body sore because of constant jerking.. way cheaper than mag dumb 223 in 2024 Lots of good suggestions, thanks! Currently I only have Evergreen crankbaits, I have CR6, CR8, CR10, CR13 and CR16, also the 3/4oz big squarebill, maybe I will try the squarebill next time, it is fat.

Thank you for all the good suggestions! I did tried different retrieval speeds, fully stop then start fast, it didn't really help, I will try slower speed next time. I want to try crankbaits because I have been ONLY practicing jerkbait since March, everytime I go fishing, I use jerkbaits, I have Vision 110, Evergreen FA-115, Nishine 95 and 115, Jackall 130, etc, maybe 20 different sizes/colors. I think after almost half years practice, I am really good at it now. Just want to try a different presentation, only using 1 type of lure from my lure box is really gettting a little boring.. Yes I have, it didn't work, but honestly, I probably didn't cast enough last time, I only made 15-20 casts totally in 2 hours, I will try again next time. It's just a little frustrating because I can see bass everywhere, and the jerkbait bite proved they wanted to bite, they just didn't want to bite the crankbait for some reasons.

I started fishing less than 10 months ago, tried few lures, now the most productive lure is the jerkbait and I want to give other lures a try. I don't have a boat, but I fish along a very long rocky shore and also a straight long riprap. I just cast parallel to the shore. Typically I make sure the lure lands 3-6 ft from the shore, I can easily get bite from jerkbaits, but I tried crankbaits yesterday, I made sure I had good bottom contract with some rocks, I used 10ft and 13 ft crankbaits, not a single bite. When I switched to the jerkbait, got a bite immediately after 1 jerk, and got a couple of bass in 15 mins. I live in a cold place, and the water temperature now is very good, like 75 degree, I can see tiny bass in groups next to the shore. Any suggestions on how to get a bite from crankbaits? We only have smallmouth in this reservoir, and some trout.

snap swivel from Owner, the smallest one.

If you want to add weights and don't want sticky tapes, try to add the heavier barrel swivel from Walmart, a pack of eagle claw swivels are just $1.5, I use 1 size 7 for my FA-115 it makes the slow rising lure to perfectly suspend at my current water temperature. I got this trick from someone on this forum.

I want to be very specific that my 4 packs of ST 21, 2 packs of #8 were bought from a famous tackle/gun shop in US last winter and my 2 packs of #6 were bought from Jeff Benzos few weeks ago. Out of 32 hooks, 7 of them have QC issues. My hooks is more than enough to be Random Sample in statistics, and this is a strong proof that their QC is just not there yet. Maybe they can improve as time goes by, but I don't really know. One more thing, in Chinese fishing community, no one would think BKK is on par with Owner or Gmakatsu, and the price of BKK in China is way cheaper in US (about 40% less at least)

Not to bashing BKK, but it's a Chinese company and it started as an OEM company in 2004 for the Japanese brands. I don't think BKK can really compete with Japanese brands. The other post I started few days ago, I mentioned bass fishing industry has a lot of snake oil due to a lot of people with very little knowledge of basic physics and engineering. If we are really talking about sharpness, you need a stress test machine that apply the same amount of force and then a sensor to see the stress profile either in PSI or Pa during the process of penetration. If you are just talking about sharpness of the BKK 21 with out any serious stress test, I would say the tip is probably as sharp as other Japanese brands, and the profile of the hook is as good, but the lack of QC shows it is still a Chinese company that is not as serious about consistency and details compared to Japanese companies. Again, I have kitchen knives from $200-2000 and I can sharp my knives with Hair-whittling edge, I have a Bowie knife worth more than a brand new Camry from the best Master Bladesmith in the world in American Bladesmith Society (ABS). I know what sharpness is in theory and in practice.

I have two pks of #6, the hooks are bigger than normal #6, but the height are the same, it's basically a #5 Japanese hook with short shank. These are nice hooks. Very sharp and not very thin/fragile wire like the stock oneten hooks. BUT! The quality control of the hooks is NOT as good as the famous Japanese brands, I have found 4 hooks from my 2 packs of #8 and 3 hooks from my 2 packs of #6 having slightly bent tips. I have many hobbies and I am a big knife collector, I know how to sharpen knives very well, so I have many ways to test the sharpness of the hooks. All the Japanese brands treble hooks I have owned: Gamakatsu, Owner, Ryugi, Duo, and Ichikawa. I have tested every hook's sharpness when I received them, NONE of them have slightly bent tip.

I really like some of your posts ( I have read/learned a lot for the past few months). However, your statement is incorrect for this matter. This is quite a tricky thing to think about, and initially I was thinking about the same way. You have to consider the relative density, i.e. the lure also expands or contracts at different temperature, the reality is, in almost all situations, the lure's density changes faster than the water, so in colder water, the lure is relatively denser than the warmer water. I have done the tests myself, and I have talked about this issue with one of my friends and he's been bass fishing for 19 years. We both and PHD degrees in engineering. Please forgive my grammars, English is not my first language. I also found Megabass did the tests themselves long time ago and made a post in another forum

Nice fish! I only used my Nishine 115 gunmetal twice last week (bought it two weeks ago), and it destroyed the snake river brown trout in west Wyoming, I got 10 trout within 2 hours, all big ones. Using a swivel as a weight is an excellent idea, I might try that too. I have been using the lead tape to make Jerkabaits suspend, but I am more and more confident that as long as the jerkbaits don't sink or float too fast, it should be fine, maybe just adding a tiny swivel is a less messy method to adjust the falling/floating rates.

I have 8 of them, all of them are nose down in the water, like 45-60 degree, I'm sure it's by design, the tungsten weights change the center of gravity to the front.

I have read somewhere that in Japan, they reel in jerkbait a lot more often than here.

Glenn always have the best videos!

I completely agree with you, almost all of my 6-7' deep jerkbaits float out of the factory, and this is tested in a very cold 40-45 degree water, if fishing them in the summer when the water temperature goes above 65, they would float even faster, and those are all good JDM brands. If I want to make them suspend, I have to use a heavier hook. Another point is, if suspension for a relatively long time is really that necessary. I think slow floating or slow sinking would be fine, a relatively stable suspension is only needed in cold water that you want to let it suspend there for a couple of seconds. For fishing in the early spring here, I only stop for 1 or 2 seconds before jerking, and slow suspending or slow sinking will not make any differences with such short stop. What test condition was it? I mean the water temperature?