Deep jerkbait tactics for cold water

Kevin

Senior Fisheman
Joined
Jan 10, 2009
Location
Craig, Colorado
Best Catch
12lbs
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Charger
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Kevin VanDam
As water temperatures drop rapidly – as they have in the north right now – bass move into winter patterns and several techniques can catch them.

For me, though, it’s tough to beat a deep diving jerkbait worked around drop-offs, edges, weedlines, bridge corners, riprap, bluff ends and places like that that cold water bass use.

I do fish the jerkbait slower than I do during other times of the year and pay close attention to boat positioning to insure my lure stays in the strike zone longer on those places I think the bass are using.

When I say I slow down, I don’t go as slow as a lot of people do. It’s still a very efficient technique for covering a good bit of water, so by fishing parallel to edges, I keep the lure in the productive zone throughout the retrieve.
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