We're deep within jerkbait season... what attitude do you try to achieve with your suspending jerkbaits; perfectly level, slightly head down or slightly tail down.  Do you prefer your jerkbait suspend perfectly neutral, slowly falling, slowly rising or do you ignore all of this shenanigans and fish it however it came out of the package.

 

Spring through summer I prefer level attitude perfectly neutral buoyancy.  Late fall I prefer slightly head down and very, very slowly sinking.

 

oe

I do not get wrapped up in how the bait sits.

Has never made enough of a difference for me.

What I do want to achieve is to work a jerkbait so that it looks like it's trying to get away,

but not doing a very good job. 

#easymeal

https://youtu.be/yfnYSE-HjIE?t=1506

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A-Jay

I’ve never thought about it 

Sometimes I have better luck if I just retrieve it like a minnow lure.

When fishing them with a long pause, if a bait is going to do anything other than sit level, I tend to do better with one that sits nose down and falls very slow.  If I'm working it quickly, I don't even consider what it does sitting still, because it never does.

I like a slow sinking jerkbait when they are biting it aggressively. Working it non-stop. 

Level or nose down and anything from a slow rise to slow sink depending on conditions. 

Jerkbait is my confident bait, I do buy deep diving jerk bait. since when shad diving it will go down head down, I always try to get jerk bait doing the same.

But Honestly Jerkbait can catch fish always just need to change color and sound and size of it which is more important for me.