DERACOUP

The DERACOUP is a compact spin-tail metal jig from JACKALL designed for efficient searching across a wide range of water depths.

Its small, dense metal body provides excellent casting distance while maintaining a compact profile that can be eaten by bass feeding on relatively small baitfish.

A blade mounted behind the body rotates during the retrieve, producing both vibration and flash. JACKALL uses a custom blade and connected bearing swivel system designed to start rotating quickly and continue working during the fall.

This is particularly important because the DERACOUP is not limited to horizontal retrieves.

Anglers can simply cast and retrieve it to cover water, or use a lift-and-fall presentation to search vertically through different depths.

The combination of compact size, casting distance, blade flash, vibration, and sinking behavior makes the DERACOUP a versatile search bait that can reach areas and depths that are difficult to cover with many conventional hard baits.

The DERACOUP became a long-running JACKALL lure by solving a common problem in bank fishing: reaching distant fish while still presenting a compact bait.

Its dense metal body provides the casting distance needed to search large areas from shore, but the overall silhouette remains small enough to imitate compact forage.

This combination is particularly useful when bass are feeding on small baitfish but are positioned beyond the range of lightweight finesse lures.

The lure is also simple to fish. A steady retrieve is enough to activate the blade and create vibration and flash, making the DERACOUP accessible even without complicated rod-work.

At the same time, more experienced anglers can use lift-and-fall retrieves to search vertically and identify the depth where fish are holding.

This combination of simplicity, casting performance, and depth versatility has helped the DERACOUP remain part of JACKALL's lineup for more than a decade.

The simplest way to fish the DERACOUP is to cast it and use a steady retrieve.

Its compact metal body casts extremely well, allowing anglers to cover distant water efficiently. Once the retrieve begins, the rear blade rotates and produces vibration and flash.

Retrieve speed can be adjusted to control the lure's depth. Anglers can allow the lure to sink before beginning the retrieve when they want to search deeper water.

Another important presentation is lift and fall.

The lure is lifted through the water column and then allowed to fall on a controlled or semi-slack line. The blade continues to rotate during the fall, giving the lure attraction during both the upward and downward portions of the presentation.

By changing the initial sink time, retrieve speed, and lift-and-fall rhythm, anglers can use the DERACOUP to quickly search from shallow water to considerably deeper areas.

• Steady Retrieve
• Lift-and-fall presentations
• Bank fishing
• Long-distance casting
• Searching large areas
• Small baitfish situations
• Reaction bites
• Suspended bass
• Deep-water bass
• Vertical searching
• When fish are beyond the range of lightweight finesse lures
• When bass are feeding on compact forage

For US anglers, the DERACOUP may resemble familiar tail spinners and compact blade baits, but its design reflects a particularly useful Japanese bank-fishing approach.

The lure combines a very compact body with enough weight to achieve exceptional casting distance, allowing anglers to reach distant fish without increasing the size of the presentation.

Its blade is also designed to remain active during the fall, making the lure effective not only as a horizontally retrieved search bait but also as a vertical lift-and-fall presentation.

This allows one small lure to cover a surprisingly large range of distances and depths.

The DERACOUP is a good example of a Japanese lure designed around efficiency: compact enough for pressured or bait-focused fish, heavy enough to cast long distances, and versatile enough to search multiple layers of the water column.