I read that these jigs can outfish live bait?  I'll believe it when I see it for myself!  
Well
 I read that these jigs can outfish live bait?  I'll believe it when I see it for myself!  
Well, we went on the lake for Striped Bass. We caught some shad and also had some frozen anchovies, and headed to find the stripers.  We found them and started dropping both live shad and cut anchovies. The bite was very slow, so I dropped a 15g Mercenary Stellar Shad, and got a hook up on my second retrieve!  I ended up catching 4 stripers versus just 1 caught with live bait!  So yes, in this case, the Mercenary jig did outfish live bait!  So far, I'm living these jigs!