Anyone throw the RC Stick or KVD Jerkbait?

[RumRiverRat]

Compliments, complaints, the good, the bad and the ugly?

[bassfshin24]

I've thrown both. Love the colors of the RC Stick but man the hooks are terrible. I've had numerous fish straighten the treble hooks. I've also heard that the split rings are bad but I haven't experienced that yet. I think they are decent for the money and you could just put new trebles on them.

I wasn't to happy with the KVD jerkbaits. I only bought one and it definitely did not suspend. It would float up on the pause. It could have just been the one I got. But if I am going to spend $10 on a jerkbait I might as well spend another $5 and get a Lucky Craft.

I do like the action of the RC stick and might buy a few more and just replace the trebles. I definitely would not fish them without changing the trebles though...you will lose fish.

[Larson15]

Ive thrown the RC and thought it was an OK bait for the money.....for a little more money I like the Spro Mcstick. Very high quality bait with good hooks.

It seems like you get what you pay for when it comes to jerk baits.

[hydrashack]

I have fished both a lot. Both are good, the RC is a lot easier to throw in the wind. I never had any issues with the hooks with mine, but I am also not catching 6 pound smallies like bassfishin24..........

For the money I think a RC is tough to beat, but then again you can catch a ton of fish on a rouge which is even cheaper.

[Superduty]

I have more jerkbaits than my wife needs to know about, varying in price from Husky Jerks to Megabass. I feel the RC sticks catch as many fish as anything out there. Cast great too. I have had one come apart but that poor bait got a work out before the tail split. I happen to like the light wire hooks. I feel these style hooks will pin more of the fish that don't eat the bait. Smallies especially like to "head butt" a jerkbait. I keep my drag set at a point where it occasionally slips while working the bait. I fish the RC's and the standard hooks right out of the box and replace hooks as necessary like I do with all my jerkbaits.

[RumRiverRat]

I can only imagine what your jerkbait collection looks like now Superduty.

KVD schooled them on MLF in his elimination round throwing his jerkbait, he sure was rippin it. Wonder if it is better suited to a fast rip retrieve versus letting it sit and suspend.

Might just buy more EEratic Shads and Mcsticks.

Along with Pointers when I can get them under 10 bucks on BBC.

[Superduty]

I love my Eeratic shad baits. Run deeper than most and are better than the price tag. The new Strike King baits are good too. The bigger version is better than the small one for me. Never fished a Mcstick.

[RumRiverRat]

For the money the EEratic Shads are great baits.

I have noticed 4 basic shapes of Jerkbaits.

Vision 110 and RC Stick

Pointer, Kvd Jerkbait

Mcstick, EEratic Shad

Rogue, Husky Jerk

[RK]

I picked up a couple of RC Sticks a while back. Agree on the hooks. They aren't the best but can say that about quite a few baits frankly. In the water, it was 50/50. One worked pretty well and I did catch some fish on it, though to be fair I didn't fish it a ton. The other one sank. And I don't mean 'slowly descended in an enticing manner' either. I mean it *sank*. Like a rock.

Another bait I like a lot is a Jackall Squad Minnow. Similar to a pointer both profile and price, but a good bait.

A jerkbait that's always flown under the radar is the Strike King Wild Shiner. Have had some days where they outfished a Pointer badly. Not the most durable, but they're $5, so...

I need to try the Eeratic shads. Have a friend who swears by them.

[thatoneguy]

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KVD schooled them on MLF in his elimination round throwing his jerkbait, he sure was rippin it. Wonder if it is better suited to a fast rip retrieve versus letting it sit and suspend.

That was sure fun to watch. I laughed when he kinda shook his head at the size of his lead and said, "it ain't that hard."

[BDawg23]

I threw the KVD for the first time last fall and really liked them. The trebles stuck every fish really good but made for some difficult hook removals from pike and then lost my 2 KVD models to pike. Caught some nice smallies that day too.