i truley do not like chatterbaits

[kbkindle]

kb here  i bought 4-5 chatterbaits  2 years ago and have not caught a fish on them yet  they stink  kb

[Cajun1977]

hey kb send them to me  ill put a  good  use to them

[Lil Baby Cousin Ray-Ray]

no man send them to me. you can send it postage due if you want.

[KYbass1276]

KB I notice you live in IN, I live in Ky and I haven't had alot of success with the chatterbait as well I have caught four or five on it and thats it.  I have noticed that it seems to work very well in the south but the further north I don't see alot of posts on it.   If you pay atten alot of the guys in the south have great success with it.  

[KenDammit28]

simply put, they aren't a miracle bait..but are effective when their time comes just like most any other lure we use.  I think that they had so much hype surrounding them that it misled a lot of people.  Don't give up on em and especially give them a shot around grassbeds and the like.  

[TrickyVT1887]

kb here  i bought 4-5 chatterbaits  2 years ago and have not caught a fish on them yet  they stink  kb

how have you been fishing them because i had the same problem until i learned how to fish them

I use a 7ft cranking rod with a 5:1 reel and move the bait just fast enough that you can feel the bait and as soon as the line gets heavy or you just cant feel the vibration then swing your rod tip and set the hook try this before you give up

[BOOYAH]

I agree with the casting along weeds with these, that is where i have caught most of my fish on these. I make my own and haven't used them a BUNCH but i usually throw em for awhile every time i go out, some days they don't work  but  other days i've had tremendous luck with them. Its not my go to bait by any means but i just love the feel of em an they do work sometimes too

[ww2farmer]

The thing that dissapoints me most about chatterbaits is the overall quality of the lure. I bought one a few weeks ago just to have one, and it looks like a total POS. Dull cheap hook, poor paint job on the head, just over all unimpressed. I will not buy another, I like the looks of the booyah boogie bait much better

[TrickyVT1887]

I truelly love fishing the chatterbait i've caught alot of fish on it but has something happened i'm totally unaware of

i mean its one of my go to baits that i know i can catch fish on i dont know if the lure quality changed or what but all the ones i have have sharp hooks and good paint jobs and work well i mean then lately im hearing how bad the hooks are and how bad the paint is and how the lures are cheaply made, am i fishing the same original chatterbait as yall or is it the newer ones or what, because honestly i've never had a problem

[Handy]

Where I live I have had some decent success with them. Some of mine had very sharp hooks and some were very dull. The paint seems to be the same to me. My only real complaint it the snap on the blade. If you look closely some of the snaps look like they could come unsnapped easily. When I find one that does look weak i put a different one on. I did just get the flippin version and I can't wait to try it out. This last fall my dad and I went fishing and he found a very large bass just sitting in shallow water. my dad made many repeated casts to it but it never moved. I went over and pulled chatterbait right by him and he smacked it hard. I had him for a minute but came unhooked because I had my drag set to light. But as a whole I am pleased with my chatterbaits.

Paul

[deadeye32.]

The hooks are terrible on the original chatterbaits, but a guy at the indianapolis Boat show this weekend was selling them with Gami hooks and at 3 for $12.  I bought six of them cause I have had great luck here in indiana with them last year during the entire year.  I actually caught a nice 7.5 lber on a black and blue.  try different techniqes and speeds and fish will eat them,  very versitile bait IMO.

[TrickyVT1887]

maybe i'm just lucky ive never had a dull hook

[Guest Bountiful_Waters]

Fishing at El Salto, the bite was slow the first week of February 07. I was tinkering with different approaches and finally found a bite on 4 inch swimbaits. My partner, not having any swimbaits, tied on a white on white chatterbait and killed them the next 2 1/2 days. By the time we left, we could have sold chatterbaits for $50 bucks each. I ended up giving mine away to a guy who was at the lake for the first time. The big bass of the week was caught on a chatterbait once the news got around (10.8). The chatterbait also saved my trip to Lake Mateos in Mexico last november. My partner said he would have never brought, let alone fished, a chatterbait in Mexico if I had not told him to bring a couple.

[TournyFish001]

not much luck here either- I'd rather just fish a spinnerbait any day- I will giv'em another try this spring tho... since I own a couple.

[bocabasser]

you obviously have no confidence in the chatter. stick wih what you have confidence in. andoh yea, you can send them chatters my way, because i love them.

[.ghoti.]

I'm with you kb. Here's a bait that does not even come close to living up to the hype. I've caught a few small fish on one. Nothing over about a pound and a half. Low quailty too. Poor paint, dull hooks, bent blades. I won't be buying any more of these things. I had to edit myself to keep it to "these things". Give me a spinnerbait any day.

Cheers,

GK

[Maxximus Redneckus]

I dont own or use um but who is chatterbait any way do they make other lures or is it one of them u would see on "as seen on TV" lures i did look at the booyah and wow what a nice looking lure compared to the chatterbaits much more quality ~~

[NaterD]

I fished the chatter last summer quite a bit, i was hesitant to pay the 6$ plus price tag.  I cought a few Michigan bass on it, and quite a few Pike.  The pike tear it all to pieces so they just sit in the box unless my usuals arn't working.

[TrickyVT1887]

Anyone who doesn't want them PM me i'll take them off your hands i can catch fish with them and won money on them last year

[Fedxpress]

There a great lure very versatile. Try slow rollin them, try burning them and pumping them off the bottom or stroking them. My son wears them out fishing them on a Zebco.

Fedxpress

[Guest avid]

I didn't check the locations of all the posters, but I suspect that the farther south one goes, the better the bait works.  It is ideal for Florida where we have a lot of shallow weedy lakes.

I do well with them.  No magic of course, but thye are an improtant part of the arsenal.

[justfishin]

I have caught fish with them here in Maryland but, I would just as soon use a spinnerbait.  

[cart7t]

They certainly have their time and place.

Most of the time

their best place is in my tacklebox, not on my rod.

[flyphisher #]

I think they are crap. I will not buy one. Will not fish one.Few years and they will be right there with the banjo minnow and the helicopter lure. When they came out people around here were paying $20 a piece for them only to have them break the first time out. Too much in the design can go wrong.

And the post about El Salto.....What dont the fish eat down there when they are biting?

[Guest Bountiful_Waters]

My point about El Salto was that the fishing was very slow. If my partner had not had those chatterbaits, it would have been a fairly bad trip for him. We caught bank runners with no size on senkos, but that chatterbait caught quality fish deeper out. When you don't catch anything on a spinnerbait or a jig, but tie on a chatterbait and wax them, it is worth having a couple of chatterbait type lures handy. It was the same issue at Mateos. Couldn't buy a fish until I started throwing a chatterbait and ended up catching the trips biggest fish on one at about 15ft. First time I had ever fished one. I have not used one in the states, but will this spring. I agree with the construction, kinda wimpy. I bought the Booyah product which I think is better built.