Jerkbait question - sunny/cloudy

[Chuck D]

rule of thumb is translucent, flash, etc on sunny days. cloudy more matte, darker baits etc. color in the water, then use a bone or have some chartreuse in it. On LOZ, if its sunny and calm with no wind, I put the jerkbait down and pick up a jig.

+1 to all of that. I'd only add that I will throw the jb when it's slick out if I see the shad up off the bottom on my graph as I'm coming in to the areas that I want to fish as we have no vegetation and the docks and brushpiles are the only cover these fish have so they'll get up under them to keep warm in the winter.

The black floats on the docks hold heat and the fish will get right up against the bottom of them and just sit there. I have found that when they do that the fish will not go down to get a bait like a jig falling by them or one that's on the bottom either because it's colder than they like down there or they are just too laze but they will often times shoot straight out to smoke a jb if you pause it and leave it suspended beside the dock for them to stare at.

It's one of my favorite bites, it's like sight fishing to see one dart out under a dock where he's suspended and smoke a jb and get back under before your line even goes tight. It'll amaze you how fast they can bite and return in cold water when they are keyed up.

This one did that last week to me. It's my personal best spot that went just at 6lb and was the heaviest fish for it's length that I have ever held. That color is Megabass Vision 110 Elegy Bone and it was mostly sunny with a real light wind and she was suspended under a dock and I saw her come out and eat it. It was spectacular.

[dchance]

+1 to all of that. I'd only add that I will throw the jb when it's slick out if I see the shad up off the bottom on my graph as I'm coming in to the areas that I want to fish as we have no vegetation and the docks and brushpiles are the only cover these fish have so they'll get up under them to keep warm in the winter.

The black floats on the docks hold heat and the fish will get right up against the bottom of them and just sit there. I have found that when they do that the fish will not go down to get a bait like a jig falling by them or one that's on the bottom either because it's colder than they like down there or they are just too laze but they will often times shoot straight out to smoke a jb if you pause it and leave it suspended beside the dock for them to stare at.

It's one of my favorite bites, it's like sight fishing to see one dart out under a dock where he's suspended and smoke a jb and get back under before your line even goes tight. It'll amaze you how fast they can bite and return in cold water when they are keyed up.

This one did that last week to me. It's my personal best spot that went just at 6lb and was the heaviest fish for it's length that I have ever held. That color is Megabass Vision 110 Elegy Bone and it was mostly sunny with a real light wind and she was suspended under a dock and I saw her come out and eat it. It was spectacular.

Good point. Here a very good technique for those dock fish is to run that stupid A-Rig down the sides of it. I think it is even more effective than running the jerkbait down the sides......which, don't get me wrong, is still a very good technique