I’ll be totally honest—I didn’t like jerkbait fishing for the longest time. It simply never appealed to me until my late college years. The more I started to tinker with these lures, however, the wider my eyes opened to their sheer productivity. Over the last decade, jerkbaits have become a major part of my arsenal when the bite is tough; they just flat-out catch fish.

I’ve been fishing with the Lucky Craft Lightning Pointer XR for the last several months and part of me wanted to keep it somewhat quiet because it’s been such a big-time producer for me lately. If you like to fish jerkbaits in the wind, you’ll want to take a close look at this lure.