My first Jerk!

After weeks with temperatures way below freezing it finally seems like the weather is turning and I can do some fishing with an icefree reel and line. My job involves beeing outdoors most of the time and now I`m quite tired of freezing my fingers and toes in all the wind we are disposed of working on top of buildings, working as a thinsmith can be hard in the winter.

To day I bought my first jerkbait, I was thinking about the times when I by chance catch bigger cod right below my feets, this has mostly happened to me around this time of year. I know the cods are feeding on smaller fish or crabs close to shore, so to fish over this last few meeters more effiecent I want to try it with one of theese jerks. If I sink it to about four meters and slowly "jerk" it towards me along the shore then I guess the attractive moves the jerk makes will trigger any cod in sight if I hit the right time and spot. Sounds easy but it takes some time and patience, fortunately I know some spots that are ideal for my experiment. -starting in Saltstraumen.

Usually fishing this close to the shore I will use my flyrod with a huge streamer, but with some of the tight spots found in saltstraumen and with the wind it will be a lot of chaos and tragedy, speycasting with a single hand #12 and a heavy sinking line and huge streamers with big wolfram eyes is not effiecent, it`s more like self mutulation.