Of course, you buy a jerk bait rod for jerk bait fishing - that said with your typical 6'8" ~ 6'10" M/F Jerk Bait rod (bait casting) - what other tactics can or do you use with this rod ? ...  *I'm thinking maybe top water ? - It's nice to be able to get more uses out of a rod set up than using for just one tactic .

Just now, ChrisD46 said:

Of course, you buy a jerk bait rod for jerk bait fishing - that said with your typical 6'8" ~ 6'10" M/F Jerk Bait rod (bait casting) - what other tactics can or do you use with this rod ? ...  *I'm thinking maybe top water ? - It's nice to be able to get more uses out of a rod set up than using for just one tactic .

Topwater stickbait work, dog walking, twitch bait jerking / Slashing... 

 

Here we call the topwater stickbait work "Catimba". Don't know how it is called on US... 

 

Starting at 1:18. How you call it? 

 

larger poppers, small square bills, finesse spinnerbaits, unweighted plastics, inline spinners, WP 190s.

I have a Dobyns 685c and it's my primary jerk bait rod - but also great for walking the dog with a Shower Blows 105 and most any square bill.  

Jerkbait rod specs usually make good topwater sticks as well. I bought a 6’8” M-XF last year for jerkbaits but it quickly replaced my old topwater set up instead. These specs would also be good as a wacky rig rod. 

45 minutes ago, ChrisD46 said:

Of course, you buy a jerk bait rod for jerk bait fishing - that said with your typical 6'8" ~ 6'10" M/F Jerk Bait rod (bait casting) - what other tactics can or do you use with this rod ? ...  *I'm thinking maybe top water ? - It's nice to be able to get more uses out of a rod set up than using for just one tactic .

Weightless plastics like senkos and flukes.  Topwater if using braid to leader or mono line.  I have a few 6'10" range rods that see jerkbait use early spring then then switch to skipping plastics and topwater.

36 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

larger poppers, small square bills, finesse spinnerbaits, unweighted plastics, inline spinners, WP 190s.

 

^^^ blade baits, small open hook swim baits, nose hooked flukes, tightlining hair jigs, heavy ned rigs, light weight finesse wire open water jigs, darter heads.

 

scott

all of the above plus finesse jigs.  

I use mine for topwaters, lipless cranks that will be ripped from weeds, flukes and wacky rigs.  

 

Plus other presentations from time to time, as needed.  Like if I'm switching back and forth between two sizes of squarebills, I might use this rod for one of them as well, so I spend more time fishing than tying knots.  

I fish poppers, small cranks, grubs, smaller worms, and small lipless cranks on mine and works perfectly fine to me! I fish a 6'-10" M F crucial and its a favorite. 

I use a 6'10" M Expride for jerkbaits and 95% of my topwater fishing, including small poppers up to 5" walking baits. It would also work great for weightless finesse worms, darter heads, shaky heads and finesse crankbaits. M powered casting rods are generally pretty versatile for lighter techniques.

It’s basically a Swiss Army knife for anything that’s  not  great on your  medium  heavy. 
I have a couple 6’6” -6’10 medium ish rods. There great. 

I've used my 6'10" M jerkbait setup for topwater walking baits, weightless senkos, light Texas rigs, underspins, finesse jigs, etc. My favorite techniques to throw on it are the jerkbait (of course) and the weightless senko.

Lots of great replies - love reading the versatility of how you are using your jerk bait rods for other bass'n techniques !

I use mine for shakey heads, 3.8 swimbaits either on and open jig head or with a belly weighted swimbait hook, smaller texas rigs, wacky worms, finesse jigs, etc. As stated they'd make good topwater rods too, I just don't use them for that since I have them both spooled up with fluoro. 

I like a 6' jerkbait rod.  As a matter of fact, I'm getting ready to try the 6'M Shimano sellus rod ($50) for my jerkbaits.  It is a 24-ton composite rod, so it would be popper/crankbait capable.