I’m just curious what power and action and size your rods are 

 

Medium-Heavy power | Fast action | 6'6" to 7'0"

 

Roger

I'm fishing from a canoe - so take this into account

Both rods I use for jerkbaits are 6'6" Medium/Fast - one spinning, one casting.

I use a 20 year old pre IPC SC Avid AC62MXF.  You can get a very similar AVC62MXF that will have a similar action, but better guides new.  This is the same rod I use for walk the dog, poppers, prop TW, and light, short target spinnerbaits.  I've even used it for squarebills in a pinch.

Dobyns Champ 683c and Tatula Elite 8.1:1.  That Elite can throw even a light jerk bait a mile...

6'10" and 6'-11 M F

I use a 7’ medium moderate but it has a snappy tip. It works great for me.

610MLF Omen casting rod

6’8” St Croix Mojo Bass M/XF with a Curado 70k 

Endurance 683 6'8 MH.  I use it for topwaters, jerks, and as a skipping rod.   I really wish I had 2  or 3 of them

6'9 med fast rod with a high speed shimano slx reel

6'6" and 7'0" mh/f.  Both are more like a m/f than mh/f.

6'9" medium power, fast action.  

7’ ML daiwa tatula elite - randy howell jerkbait/shallow crank casting rod

6'7" or 7"1" MF Omen Black II.

7' Medium power, Regular action which really amounts to a mod fast.

18 hours ago, J Francho said:

I use a 20 year old pre IPC SC Avid AC62MXF.  You can get a very similar AVC62MXF that will have a similar action, but better guides new.  This is the same rod I use for walk the dog, poppers, prop TW, and light, short target spinnerbaits.  I've even used it for squarebills in a pinch.

I’m using the avid 6’6 m/f 

9 minutes ago, Miken216 said:

I’m using the avid 6’6 m/f 

It's a very similar rod to the 6-6, but has a faster taper, and shorter rear grip.  It's only a little more than an inch difference in length from the tip to the reel seat.  It's like it was designed for tip down presentations, similar to a pistol grip, but not a pistol grip.  I've had Saint Croix rebuild the rear cork twice, because I use it so much I wore it out.

On 7/21/2020 at 8:27 AM, J Francho said:

It's a very similar rod to the 6-6, but has a faster taper, and shorter rear grip.  It's only a little more than an inch difference in length from the tip to the reel seat.  It's like it was designed for tip down presentations, similar to a pistol grip, but not a pistol grip.  I've had Saint Croix rebuild the rear cork twice, because I use it so much I wore it out.

See I also just purchased the avid x 6’8 mxf I was going to use the for my top water because my avid 6’6 mf is my top water but I have the casting and spinning version of the avid and when I was using the spinning version it seemed to work well but I use that rod for finesse fishing the spinning combo so I was thinking would that avid x 6’8 mxf be a better option for jerk bait or better for my top water I just want to be able to have a top water setup and jerkbait setup

G. Loomis 783 GLX MH Fast 6'6''.  It has worked great for about 15+ years.  Simply love this rod. 

11 hours ago, Miken216 said:

See I also just purchased the avid x 6’8 mxf I was going to use the for my top water because my avid 6’6 mf is my top water but I have the casting and spinning version of the avid and when I was using the spinning version it seemed to work well but I use that rod for finesse fishing the spinning combo so I was thinking would that avid x 6’8 mxf be a better option for jerk bait or better for my top water I just want to be able to have a top water setup and jerkbait setup

I have that rod, too.  A couple of them actually, and spinning lol.  I sub is for when I want to throw jerkbaits, TW, light plastics, really anything under 1/2 oz, for when I'm in my kayak and apace is tight.

Haven't thrown jerkbaits much over the years but used to have a lot of success with them was younger and wanted to get back into it...  I went with a Aird-X 6'6" medium fast rod and a Daiwa CR80 7.5:1 reel.  Brand new off ebay the combo was $100, pleasantly impressed with the reel....

1 minute ago, ajschn06 said:

Haven't thrown jerkbaits much over the years but used to have a lot of success with them was younger and wanted to get back into it...  I went with a Aird-X 6'6" medium fast rod and a Daiwa CR80 7.5:1 reel.  Brand new off ebay the combo was $100, pleasantly impressed with the reel....

Yeah I’m throwing them with a 6.3:1 Tatula sv tws I was debating on putting my steez sv tw 7.1:1 but I have that on my top water and I don’t have any higher gear ratio reels sitting around I can really sacrifice from my other combos

I’ve used anything from slow to high speed reels for twitch baits, and I never found it made much difference. I was always able to adjust to whatever was on the rod. 

4 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I’ve used anything from slow to high speed reels for twitch baits, and I never found it made much difference. I was always able to adjust to whatever was on the rod. 

Thank you