Booyah Chatterbait

[basshole8190]

Recently bought a few pretty cheap and like the action but I'm not sold on the moveable hook its a hook on some kind of flexible wire. I'm not sold on it because sunday i hooked up on with 5 fish on the booyah bait but only got 1 fish to the boat the others got off fairly quickly I'm pretty sure i got good hooksets on all 5 fish I'm just wondering if its the flex hook that caused it and what's you're experience with these baits

[Bluebasser86]

I had a difficult time hooking fish with them. It wasn't that they were throwing it on the way to the boat, just not hooking up in the first place. 

[tritondriver]

check out D and M custom baits webpage for awesome chatterbaits, a lil more expensive but great baits.

[Mike L]

I've been useing the Booyah almost exclusively lately because I like the action much better than the Z Man which is the only other brand I've tried. I have noticed that the fexible shank has been a problem but only if they jump. 

I've found no difference in hooking up tho.

 

 

Mike

[CWB]

I like Strike Kings Pure Poison. Works great, excellent quality and decent price.

[Marty]

Recently bought a few pretty cheap and like the action but I'm not sold on the moveable hook its a hook on some kind of flexible wire. I'm not sold on it because sunday i hooked up on with 5 fish on the booyah bait but only got 1 fish to the boat the others got off fairly quickly I'm pretty sure i got good hooksets on all 5 fish I'm just wondering if its the flex hook that caused it and what's you're experience with these baits

 

I started out with the actual Chatterbait shortly after they were introduced and not long after that I tried a Booyah because it had better components and features than the Chatterbait in my opinion. One weekend the shore fishing at a nearby pond was as fast as I'd ever seen it. Unfortunately, I lost about 10 bass on the Booyah that weekend, but landed almost everything I hooked on other lures. Rightly or wrongly, I blamed the flexible hook and have never cast a Booyah again since that weekend six years ago.

 

My gut feeling is that their claim is right about it being harder to throw. But--and I am no scientist--my gut also tells me that on a hookset, some of the energy generated goes to flex that hook rather than 100% of the energy going to directly drive that hook home.

[00 mod]

D&M Piranha will solve that problem.

 

Jeff

[Diggy]

I prefer the z man over these....People say otherwise but zman has been good to me

[5fishlimit]

I was using these, but have gone back to the zman chatterbait.

The flexible shaft did me no favors on the hooksets.

[Hi Salenity]

I'm waiting to get my hands on the new Rage ones!