Product Description:

The Pork Shad is a jerk bait replicating a shad or a shiner — a favorite forage fish for hungry Bass. Jerk baits, like the Pork Shad, have been around a long time. They fell out of favor with anglers when baits like the French Fry and the Chopstik came out, but now jerk baits are gaining in popularity again, especially when anglers find out that the Pork Shad is a very effective bait when fishing a bedding fish during the spring. It can be easily fished through grass. The natural blending of color between the top and bottom of the bait better resembles forage fish, and the beaded ribs running along the top (back) of the bait provide bubbling action like air released from the gills of a small fish as it is worked through the water. The erratic topwater action mimics a dying bait fish, making it vulnerable to a feeding fish — an effective bait in any water where small schooling forage fish exist. Whether you are fishing for Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Pike, Walleye, Speckled Trout, or Redfish, the Pork Shad is known to catch numerous species of fish in both freshwater and saltwater.

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Fishing Tips:

The Pork Shad should be rigged with the Jerk Bait Hook (provided in the pack). This hook has a unique style weighted eye. The weight causes the bait to fall at a slightly greater speed and deeper than fishing weightless for those fish located at depth. We recommend that you fish this bait weightless when fishing for schooling fish, so that the bait stays on top in the strike zone.

Fishing bright highly visible colored Pork Shads will trigger reaction strikes from fish on the bed, plus anglers can easily see these baits and their erratic action, so when it disappears, 9 times out of 10 it is in the mouth of the fish. You may not even feel the strike; your line might jump or you may see a swirl in the water around your bait before you are aware of a strike. Let the fish have the bait for one or two seconds before setting the hook.

Another way to fish the Pork Shad is to rig a very light weight sinker and a light hook and let it fall slowly to the bottom, mimicking an injured bait fish that is sinking to the bottom – and easy meal for a feeding fish.

The Pork Shad works well in water where other bait fish exist, such as small Bream and baby Bass. The Huckleberry and Copperhead colored Pork Shads work well to mimic small Bream. Bass will eat its own fry, and the Green Pumpkin Pearl colored Pork Shad replicates a baby Bass very well.

Fish it weightless and jerk it; its erratic topwater action is very effective. It can be easily fished through grass. Using the red colored Jerk Bait hook to make the bait appear to be bleeding, triggering a reaction in a feeding fish.

Pork Shad is a good Smallmouth Bass bait, rigged with a weight for fishing in current, using a Carolina rig for example. Carolina rigged Pork Shad is very effectively because of the bait’s erratic action. Anglers catch a lot of Smallmouth on Pork Shad.

Accessories:

The Jerk Bait Hook is the genuine replacement hook for this bait.

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