Jerkbait Soft Plastic for Bass Lures

Jerkbait soft plastics, also called flukes, are subtle minnow-style bait fish designed to provide erratic lure action. Jerkbait soft plastics are known as the soft plastic for soft jerkbait lure but also used with other soft bait lures and skirted lures as a soft plastic trailer.

Jerkbait soft plastics are important to:

Common Sizes: 2 to 5 inches.
Distinguishing Features: Generally have small forked tail and a nonedescript head.
Enabling Lure Action: Depending on the lure, it can provide darting side to side action typically made with a jerk retrieve. It also can provide a do nothing dead-stick lure action and a twitch base lure action.
Vibration: None.
Options:
- Body Types: Generally, subtle differences in body types from different manufacturers.
  - Smooth Plastic: [Figure 1, 2, 3]
  - Ribbed Plastic: [Figure 4]
  - Dense Plastic: Some soft baits are more dense resulting in faster fall rate enabling them to fish deeper.
- Fork Tail: [Figure 1,3] Common
- Straight Tail: [Figure 2] Less common.
- Jointed: [Figure 4] Not common.