i recently bought the banjo minnows and i was told to jerk and then wait......jerk wait....repeat.  ANY POINTERS??

Fish 'em anyway you want.

Then, take the minnows and fish them on a drop shot.

The jerk/wait method is good.  You can vary the jerks a little from slight twitches to a little harder to get it swimming more.  Depends how you want to present it.  I guess you can to a jerk and reel faster retrieve but I would just use a spinner bait or lipless if I wanted to trigger the reaction strike.  

They must be havng a blitz on advertising these things again. A lot of people are inquiring about them.

They must be havng a blitz on advertising these things again. A lot of people are inquiring about them.

Yeah, they must be throwing up some infomercials or something.  Last I heard about the banjo minnow, was when they were on an infomercial back in 1996....  I bought some then, and was not impressed.  The ones I got back then had the "screw in the nose" type hooks, and the plastic was so weak, that the bait would easily rip free.  I tried to just use a EWG worm hook, but the way the body is shaped didn't work too well either.

I recommend just using a Zoom superfluke or Senko- with the twitch, twitch pause technique.  I put my money on the Superfluke or Senko outfishing the banjo- 9 times out of 10.

the slower the better is all i have to say.