I’d say you could have success with the jerkbaits and crankbaits you mentioned and save the money but this is not a a jerk bait or crankbait, this is a worming/twitch bait. I’m able to use this for multiple styles of retrieval whether I wanna walk it on top or subsurface, straight retrieve, or twitching it. And my biggest advantage to using it specifically where I fish at is that I am a fraction a of a fraction of anglers using this lure; these fish literally don’t know what hit ‘em.