Jigs- Rattle Or No Rattle?

[Brian6428]

Hey guys, I am working on becoming good at jig fishing. I have caught a few fish on jigs and am about to place an order to Siebert Outdoors. This leaves me to ask the question, when do you guys use a rattle on a jig, or do you use a rattle at all? Thanks!

[eyedabassman]

There is no wright answer,let the bass tell you what they want! I have my go to jigs and colors so, I have one rod set with a rattle and one without a rattle and I will fish both off and on untill I find what they want. But most of the time they want it with rattles on the lakes that I fish. Sometimes a rattle can turn them off,now if you are fishing dark water then you have to to with a rattle.

[smalljaw67]

I fish all of my jigs without a rattle but the jigs I make for a friend all have rattles and we fish side by side and over the years I found that at times a rattle helps but rarely does it hurt. I think if you have confidence with the rattle then by all means use them, but if you just want to know what conditions, well I'd say anytime you have dirty water or low visiblity, but try both a let the fish tell which one they prefer.

[Brian6428]

Thanks for the replies, those are both great answers.

I fish all of my jigs without a rattle but the jigs I make for a friend all have rattles and we fish side by side and over the years I found that at times a rattle helps but rarely does it hurt. I think if you have confidence with the rattle then by all means use them, but if you just want to know what conditions, well I'd say anytime you have dirty water or low visiblity, but try both a let the fish tell which one they prefer.

This is what I'm gonna do, thanks!

[MrSwimJig]

I rarely use rattles. If the water is really murky with lots of cover then I might use rattles. But 99% of the time I use no rattles.

[Bluebasser86]

I've seen times where having rattles was critical to getting strikes but there is no surefire way to figure out when that is other than just trying both ways and seeing what works best. I do like jigs with rattles in heavy cover or muddy conditions before silent baits though.

[rockchalk06]

When I first started throwing North Star jigs, they came with rattles. The next order I got didn't have them. Until I went to mess with one of the skirts I didn't know they had no rattles. My catch rate never went up or down so I can't say they help or hurt my jigs.

 

I do keep a few in my Terminal tackle box just incase

[whitwolf]

I mostly fish a jig without rattles unless the water is murky or I'm night fishing.................