Looking down at my fishing partner’s jerkbait in the crystal clear waters of Table Rock Lake it quietly wobbles back and forth.  Not really a wide wobble, but a tight wobble.  You can barely hear the wind blowing through the pine trees above us on a towering bluff.  The silence is haunting.  He shakes the jerkbait, but no sound.  Not a rattle or weight transfer system inside it.  He casts towards a row of cedar trees just under the water’s surface.  One jerk, pause, two jerks, pause, one…bang!  Another quality Kentucky bass comes darting out from the cedar tree and eats the lure.  He fights the bass into the boat and looks at me then releases it.  I cannot believe it.  I am quickly get a lesson on the Lucky Craft Pointer 95 Silent and how it catches fish in clear and cold water when other baits with rattles are refused.

Fishing jerkbaits in clear, cold water is no secret among professional anglers.  In fact, FLW National Guard and Lucky Craft Pro Staffer Brent Ehrler recently won a tournament on Table Rock Lake in Missouri fishing with a Lucky Craft Pointer DD jerkbait (www.luckycraft.com) in Pearl Wakasagi by a whopping 13 pounds.  Ehrler focused on a creek channel bend in White River.  It turned out to be one of the stopping points for bass moving back to spawn.  Numerous other tournaments are also won on jerkbaits early in the season.  Nevertheless, after a while bass start to get wary of noisy jerkbaits.  That is where the Pointer 95 Silent comes into play.  The Pointer 95 Silent was built to reach depths of 4- to 5-feet and be completely silent.  To reach this depth, Lucky Craft changed the angle of the lip allowing it to dive quickly to the strike zone.  This lip angle also makes the lure have a tighter wobble, but still retain its erratic action.  The Pointer 95 Silent comes in 14 colors and weighs 5/8-ounces.

Not only does the Pointer 95 Silent work in cold water, but in ultra clear water where bass can see the bait from a long distance  Just the erratic action is enough to draw bass to the bait.  When fishing a jerkbait Ehrler likes to use a 6’ 10” medium/light Lucky Craft Pointer Rod, Abu Revo Premier with a 6.4:1gear ratio, and 10-pound Sunline Sinper fluorocarbon line.  “I normally just snap the lure to give it all the action it needs,” Ehrler continued, “I do not have to set the hook to hard, most of the time the fish hooks itself.”

For anglers, the Pointer 95 Silent is one more lure in their tackle box to catch bass with.  It does not matter if it’s cold or ultra clear water.  The silence is deadly.