Chatterbait colors in dark / stained water

[wordty]

I live in Louisiana and fish mainly coffee colored water - what chatterbait colors and trailers are your best combinations in that type water?  Thought I'd hit the Bass Pro Sale on chatterbaits - thanks!

[NJBasstard]

For me it's black & blue and red craw in dark dirty waters.

[Dens228]

I use a shad color with a shad color 3.8 inch Keitech.  I will dip the tail in chartreuse dippin dye though. 

 

[plawren53202]

Black and blue, and red, are the standard answers for this. Red chatterbaits are more of a recent thing, for some reason, and my understanding is that they are (or were) a little hard to find since the winner of the Bassmaster Classic used one this year. 

 

A youtube video recommend white/chartreuse or even just plain white as a chatterbait or spinnerbait color for stained to muddy water. I personally have done a lot better in the past with black and blue or red, but I will take their word for it and keep trying those colors as well.

[OnthePotomac]

On the coffee color Tidal Potomac black/blue is pretty standard.

[Bluebasser86]

This one and Golden Shiner are my 2 favorites. 

[Bankbeater]

White with a white fat albert trailer.  If that doesn't work I switch over to green pumpkin chatterbait with a green pumpkin fat albert trailer.

[Heartland]

Firetiger is my goto.

[gim]

On 5/20/2020 at 9:58 AM, wordty said:

Thought I'd hit the Bass Pro Sale on chatterbaits - thanks!

Just a heads up most of their orders are delayed right now because they literally don’t have the manpower to go pick your order and ship it as quickly as normal. I ordered a product that was in stock on May 9 and they delayed it May 20-30 and today they delayed it again May 27 - June 6 so I cancelled it.

[swhit140]

Black/Blue, Green Pumpkin, White mainly. Obviously according to your lake color choices may vary. For trailers I've used Craw Trailers, Creature baits, just about any plastic you want to put on there.

 

[Catt]

White-n-Charteuse with a 3.75 Rage Swimmer Sexy Shade

[primetime]

I use White most of the time, Black and blue, and green pumpkin....I usually match trailer with skirt color and I like to sand the blade to make it dull or color it black with a sharpie...I dont like too much flash for some reason, Always feel like extra flash and shine catches less fish for me.....The Chatterbait puts off plenty of vibration, so they can find it in dirty water.

 

I use White if fishing off shore in areas where shad may be, and green pumpkin or black blue when fishing in areas that have bluegill like canals, shorelines etc...I am finally starting to get better with a chatterbait, I feel like the trailer is almost the most important part.

 

I still have not put in enough time to call it a confidence bait yet, but been trying to fish them more last couple years. 

 

I feel like white is always a safe color, kind of like a spinnerbait, seems to work in any area.