Rapala Down Deep Husky Jerk 10 cm

Finnish manufacturer Rapala has been producing outstanding plugs that catch fish all over the world for nearly a century.

A Plug with Real Depth

The Rapala Down Deep Husky Jerk is a plug built for situations where you need to get right down deep to find the predators. Its long diving lip drives it down to almost five metres. Fished on thin line while trolling, it will often reach a little beyond that. Retrieve it at a very slow pace and the minimum running depth sits at just over two metres.

Once it reaches the target depth, the Down Deep Husky Jerk really makes itself heard. It works with a pronounced rolling and flanking action and throws out a loud rattle, produced by a rattle ball inside the body. Stop the retrieve and everything goes quiet in an instant. The suspending plug hangs completely weightless in the water column, giving hesitant predators all the time they need to commit.

At 10 cm, the Rapala Down Deep Husky Jerk sits squarely in the feeding range of zander, pike and perch. Build quality is excellent throughout, and the two treble hooks with Black Nickel coating are needle-sharp.

Specs at a Glance:

• Length: 10 cm
• Weight: 11 g
• Running depth: 2.1 m - 4.8 m
• Long diving lip
• Black Nickel treble hooks
• Suspending

How to Fish It

When you're out on the boat over deeper water and the fish are sitting low in the water column, it pays to have one of these in the lure box. It covers depths that most plugs simply can't reach.