Lunch hour spottie

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Lunch hour spottie

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Caught on a floating jerkbait I found years ago and recently relocated. All the paint was flaked off, so it looked like a translucent-whitish fish carcass by the time I fished it. Pay no mind to fancy paint jobs on jerkbaits! Lost the lure about 6 casts after catching this guy, which inspired me to order twenty jerkbaits for a total of $16 off Temu today! Maybe I'll sandpaper off the paint jobs!
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Re: Lunch hour spottie

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Clear baits work too, they just don't sell well to fishermen.
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Re: Lunch hour spottie

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Nice lunch break...
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Re: Lunch hour spottie

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Let me know how those jerkbaits work! Last time I ordered from those types of sites, the bait looked great, but the tuning, the hardware, etc was a POS. Seems like after every fish, the jerkbait jerkin' was all jerked up.
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Re: Lunch hour spottie

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DarkShadow wrote: Wed May 20, 2026 9:13 am Let me know how those jerkbaits work! Last time I ordered from those types of sites, the bait looked great, but the tuning, the hardware, etc was a POS. Seems like after every fish, the jerkbait jerkin' was all jerked up.
I will definitely report back on their quality. This guy in Malibu does well with 98 cent Luckcraft clones purchased from Alibaba.
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Re: Lunch hour spottie

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I am curious to know how they work as well. It may look good on screen but the hooks will probably bend or break and the quality of the material used will be much cheaper causing them to distort and lose action but hey, sometimes you never know
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