But sure enough, I’d hear that “whip, whip, pause” on the front deck and ol’ Henry would be catching the snot out of ‘em. I’d have 19 rods on the back deck and be in full panic-mode and not catch a thing. He would smoke my rear end throwing this silly Yo-Zuri jerkbait. The weather, fishing pressure, cold fronts, warm fronts… none of that mattered. That joker would catch dozens of fish on a jerkbait every single time we fished together. Back then, I was a co-angler and I was basically trying to catch any scraps he left behind for me. I started fishing tournaments with one of my best buddies and easily one of the best fishermen I’ve ever met, Matt Henry. So let’s fast-forward a decade or three and revisit this topic. I might not have said it out loud in front of my Momma but when I laid in bed at night, sunburned from a long summer’s day of hiking around local farm ponds throwing these things… I certainly had some hateful thoughts for ‘em. I liked ‘em all until I tried those stupid jerkbaits. Like most of you, I’ve been bass fishing since I was a little thing and I experimented with all kinds of different lures and presentations. But folks… I have hated jerkbaits all of my life. I don’t know if you’re reading this, Momma, and if you are, I sure hope you don’t whoop me the next time we come visit. She didn’t know how much they irritated me and she dang sure didn’t know how much I’d get my butt kicked in tournaments by other folks using ‘em. The Smith family never used the word and I think I’m a better man for it.īut Momma Smith didn’t quite know about jerkbaits back then. It didn’t matter if it was a school project we didn’t want to do, someone picking on us on the school bus or one of those nasty bullies in the hallway. It was a rule in her house when she was a little girl and that translated to our household. When I was growing up, my sweet momma had a rule in our house we couldn’t say the word “hate” no matter how much we didn’t like something.
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