>>985725Soft Plastic, Hard Plastic? LIVETARGET Glass Minnow? Post a picture?
There are soft plastic jerkbaits which work similar to hard plastic. I don't think I've ever seen any sold as "minnows" but often as "flukes" (like the Zoom Super Fluke). Soft plastic jerkbaits tend to have flat tails with minimal drag. Maybe a V-notch or the sort but nothing as resistant as a paddle-tail which would hinder the action of a jerking technique. The goal is basically to mimic an injured/dying fish.
Here's a vid of somebody fishing a soft plastic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11z45sm1riQWeightless, wide-gap/swimbait hook, weedless rigging. They're using a "slack-line" technique where you allow the line a bit of slack between pops and movements which allows the bait to continue moving freely to do things like the 180 degree turns seen in the vid.
Hard plastic jerkbaits are fished the same (short bursts of retrieve or pops, followed by lulls letting the lure settle/sink) and achieve the same but the inclusion of weighting and different size bills on the front allow them to run at different depths and also flicker/wobble during a steady retrieve. Whereas something like the soft jerkbait tends to steady-retrieve in a fairly straight line with minimal movement.
