Do chatterbaits tend to catch big bass?

[rod snapper]

is the jackhammer worth the hefty price tag?

[MIbassyaker]

2 minutes ago, rod snapper said:

is the jackhammer worth the hefty price tag?

Depends on what the other options are.

 

I'm skeptical as long as I can order these for 4 bucks/each...

https://www.siebertoutdoors.com/Fogy-Bubble-Blade-456.htm

 

...or make my own from head/skirt/blade/split-ring/snap components:

[Bluebasser86]

They catch bigger than average fish for me, but also produce good numbers of fish. They're great in stained to dirty water and really seem to excel around vegetation. I haven't caught any giants with them but just uncountable numbers of fish in the 4-6 pound range. I use my homemade ones and black and blue and a color I call Ivy are my best big fish producers. 

[BassinCNY]

My experience is that they catch average size bass. But that is probably because I usually prefer to fish for numbers of average size fish rather than giants. I have a short attention span. I haven't tried black and blue though. Just green pumpkin/sunfish and shad colors. The shad colors are pickerel magnets.

[Fishing_FF]

8 hours ago, TOXIC said:

I'm forcing myself to fish them more just because Yamamoto has a trailer made just for the "bladed jig", the Zako and it gets rave reviews.  I am still deciphering the hype between all of the jig manufacturers trying to figure out if the Jackhammer is just as good or better than the cheaper options.  To be honest, I've struggled with the bladed jigs and can't figure out why.  

 

Ha! Guess I'm not the only one. I have more luck with a spinnerbait, but after watching the success of a the MLF guys and now the FLW guys on the Kissimmee chain which is one of my home waters, I'm going to take some time to figure out the chatterbait. 

[Hawkeye21]

4 hours ago, rod snapper said:

now the real question is which colors?

Black/Blue is my favorite and what I've caught my best on.  You really only need two or three colors: something dark like black/blue, something natural like a bluegill color and something light like white.

[TnRiver46]

5 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

They catch bigger than average fish for me, but also produce good numbers of fish. They're great in stained to dirty water and really seem to excel around vegetation. I haven't caught any giants with them but just uncountable numbers of fish in the 4-6 pound range. I use my homemade ones and black and blue and a color I call Ivy are my best big fish producers. 

I just got into these baits and bluebasser86 makes a good one! Starts shaking as soon as you engage the reel 

[Harold Scoggins]

For a rack of German beer, I can be more specific.

[Munkin]

21 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Come on up to Gunston Cove some late afternoon...outgoing tide....pick an area where there's 8-18 inches between surface and the top of the grass.  If you can keep the snakeheads off, you'll hit LMB jackpot lots of days.  I use mostly white chatterbait with white RageBug....your struggles will disappear. 

White...off white....or anything else, as long as it's mostly white.    Dark may work at times, but for me, its always white first.

Fishing skirted baits on the Potomac River there is a saying that any color works as long as it is white.

 

Allen

[FCPhil]

22 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

THe majority of my larger bass over the last several years have come on three lures: Chatterbait, Spinnerbait, and Buzzbait. All skirted moving baits.

 

Is this because these lures just "catch big bass?"

 

Or is it because I fish them more when larger bass are more likely to be active?

 

 

I have noticed that even though the majority of my fishing is in the morning, I have caught disproportionately more big fish mid day. 

 

I have noticed the Whopper Plopper (loud, fast moving bait) catches a bigger average all times of the day. 

[deadadrift89]

Bigger bass on average for me. And i seem to always catch at least one really big catfish every outing also?

[Dorado]

On 2/6/2019 at 12:33 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

They catch bigger than average fish for me, but also produce good numbers of fish. They're great in stained to dirty water and really seem to excel around vegetation. I haven't caught any giants with them but just uncountable numbers of fish in the 4-6 pound range. I use my homemade ones and black and blue and a color I call Ivy are my best big fish producers. 

Blue, what do you use as a trailer for your black and blue bladed jigs?

[Bluebasser86]

3 hours ago, Dorado said:

Blue, what do you use as a trailer for your black and blue bladed jigs?

Mainly a discontinued sapphire blue pitboss or  Devil's Spear but a Sapphire blue Menace works great as well.

[Fishin' Fool]

Bulky profile bait so I could see catching above average size fish on it. A tip I picked up from Tactical Bassin' is after your Keitechs or similar get beat up instead of tossing them use them for a bladed jig trailer. They can be either rigged upside down or cut the paddle of the tail so it comes more to a point.