Super User bigbill Posted August 6, 2015 Super User Posted August 6, 2015 Chatterbait setup?? Trailer or no trailer? Pork? Grub? Trailer hook or no trailer hook? What's your presentation? Quote
fish devil Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 Split tail trailer 100% of the time. I love the narrow profile for speedy retrievals. Never use a trailer hook. I basically fish it where I would use spinnerbaits. Great for shallow grassy areas. 1 Quote
blckshirt98 Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 Trailer for sure, take your pick pretty much anything you'd throw on the back of a jig/swim jig you can throw on a chatterbait. I use single tail grubs (Kalin's and Zoom are easy to find and cheap) and paddletail swimbaits. Have never heard of pork being used, have never used a trailer hook. When the fish bite it they pretty much slam it and chatterbaits have big hooks that stick em. I'll usually try various speed retrieves, and sometimes will kill it and let it fall. Usually though I reel it in at a nice steady pace. Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted August 6, 2015 Super User Posted August 6, 2015 Rage Tail Structure Bug rigged vertically (like a swimming fish). Rage Tail Cut-R rigged without a skirt. Quote
NotnatsSamoht Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 Big bite baits cane thumper, with or without chatterbait skirt. Quote
Super User bigbill Posted August 6, 2015 Author Super User Posted August 6, 2015 Thanks. I recently tried one at a newly opened reservoir. But none of my baits caught anything. It was flat and shallow. Need to scope out the new place with the cast out fish finder to learn the bottom and depths. The chatter bait was naked. I need a trailer I figured that. Thanks guys. Quote
NJSalt Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 Try a Rage Craw.... It's my go to trailer for bladed swim jigs Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted August 6, 2015 Super User Posted August 6, 2015 trailer yes, trailer hook no..... they already get hung up enough as is! 1 Quote
Jon G Posted August 6, 2015 Posted August 6, 2015 Rod:Dobyns Champ 734 or DX 744 Reel: Shimano Chronarch CI4 150hg Line: 16lb Sunline FC Sniper Trailers-Sideways rigged Pit Boss, Keitech 3.8 No trailer hook Slow steady retrieve to keep the blade slowly thumping Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted August 8, 2015 Global Moderator Posted August 8, 2015 Chatterbait setup?? Trailer or no trailer? Pork? Grub? Trailer hook or no trailer hook? What's your presentation? 6' 6" MH/F-6:4.1 reel-15lb Big Game Trailer all the time-whatever you like, I use plastic Trailer hook-never A majority of the time it's a very slow, steady retrieve. Quote
Global Moderator Mike L Posted August 8, 2015 Global Moderator Posted August 8, 2015 7' 2" Phenix M1 mh/f casting rod, JM Sig reel, 12# You Zuri Head less RI Skinny Dipper No trailer hook Steady retrieve with an intermittent fall, lift, stop and go Mike Quote
Global Moderator Mike L Posted August 8, 2015 Global Moderator Posted August 8, 2015 7' 2" Phenix M1 mh/f casting rod, JM Sig reel, 12# You Zuri Head less RI Skinny Dipper No trailer hook Steady retrieve with an intermittent fall, lift, stop and go Mike Quote
MrBigFishSC Posted August 9, 2015 Posted August 9, 2015 Trailer is a must. For me the action is determined by the trailer. I'll use a speed craw, grub, or split tail and fish it faster with a steady retrieve in spring. Add a big craw trailer and slow it down to create a lot of action whether steady, rip and pause, or kinda yo-yo. Quote
MasonV Posted August 9, 2015 Posted August 9, 2015 I fish it on a 6'6" or 7' MH fast action rod, 6.3:1 reel with 14lb fluorocarbon. I almost always use a split tail trailer. To me, the chatterbait displaces enough water on its own so you don't need a trailer that does as well. The trailer is mainly visual IMO. The only time I might use some type of craw trailer is if I was yo yoing it off the bottom. I don't use a trailer hook and fish it much like a spinnerbait or crankbait. Variations of speed, stop n go, rod twitches, yo yoing in the water column or off the bottom... Quote
MrBigFishSC Posted August 9, 2015 Posted August 9, 2015 Once you try a craw trailer you will be hooked so to speak. The craw creates an entirely different action because of the leg action and bulk. You can slow down the retrieve and still get the water displacement and wobble that you can't get with a slimmer profile trailer. In spring when the fish are fired up this isn't needed but at other times like dusk in summer around cover it's like fish crack. Quote
wytstang Posted August 9, 2015 Posted August 9, 2015 99% of the time I use a craw as a trailer (never a trailer hook) but some times a thinner profile with a more subtle action is what they want. That's when a 5'' single tail grub is a better fit. Steady retrieve (some times slow others fast,, bass tell me which one they want) with the rod tip pointing down to keep the lure running as deep as I want it. Quote
Scarborough817 Posted September 22, 2015 Posted September 22, 2015 7' MH/F 20lb mono trailer depends on the colour i'm throwing for black and blue or a brown it will normally be a craw for a green pumpkin it would be a blade minnow or a swimming senko thinking about trying out some lake fork swimbait trailers too Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted September 22, 2015 Super User Posted September 22, 2015 No trailer hook, and I use a Zoom super chunk or a big curly tail grub for a trailer. Quote
hatrix Posted September 23, 2015 Posted September 23, 2015 I almost always use a swimbait for a trailer. I have caught fish using other stuff but for some reason I can't stick with it. i have just caught soooooo many fish using swimbaits of chatterbaits and swimjigs it's hard to use anytbing else some times. Quote
UKCATSBASSER Posted September 23, 2015 Posted September 23, 2015 GLoomis e6x 843 MBR Rod. 7 foot mh Shimano Curado I 14 pound sunline fluro Z man chatterbait White paca chunk or sk menace grub. Quote
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