Chatterbait supplanting Spinnerbait?

[Dens228]

As long as it's not sunny, clear water, no wind, I'll start with a spinnerbait. Depending on conditions I may switch it up.

The other day I was on a lake, decent chop, cloudy, water was very low vis due to flooding,  probably about 6 inches.  Started with a spinner figuring the conditions were perfect for it, not even a tap.  Switched to a chatterbait, had a few light hits, probably to the tail of my trailer, no hookups, switched to an unerspin with the same trailer as a chatter, started catching bass non stop.  It wall depends on the conditions and the mood of the fish. 

[scaleface]

1 hour ago, Dens228 said:

Started with a spinner figuring the conditions were perfect for it, not even a tap.  Switched to a chatterbait, had a few light hits, probably to the tail of my trailer, no hookups, switched to an unerspin with the same trailer as a chatter, started catching bass non stop. 

...and that is how its done .

[Boomstick]

I fish chatterbaits around grass as they tend to pick up less of it, but in choppy water I'm reaching for my spinnerbait first every time.

I catch a lot more fish with spinnerbaits than chatterbaits.

[Boomstick]

On 5/30/2020 at 2:19 PM, J Francho said:

I have a few chatterbaits, and over 100 spinnerbaits in inventory. 

I carry 8 chatterbaits and a plano spinnerbait box full of spinnerbaits, I think that holds 45.

 

Granted, my chatterbait approach is pretty simple where I keep them 3/8oz and 1/2oz in black, brown, some form of chartreuse and some silver or white colors, where I do the same with spinnerbaits but then you add in different blades.

[J Francho]

On 5/30/2020 at 2:59 PM, Eddie101 said:

When I was fishing with a local guide named Ken Penrod awhile back, he told me - hope I'm quoting him correctly  - he'd typically throw a spinnerbait to an area that has some structure to make it more effective. Where do you throw your spinnerbaits?

Wherever water is wet.

[Choporoz]

I'm falling on the opposite side of most above.  I always have a chatterbait tied on.  I throw them in all conditions and all over the water column.  I often have a spinnerbait tied on -- but more often than not, it doesn't get thrown until the chatterbait tells me 'not today'.  

 

I have the opposite experience of some above, in that I very rarely snag a chatterbait, and I put them in places that a spinnerbait doesn't go as well for me.  Especially in pad fields.  I cannot work a spinnerbait through pads.  But a chatterbait can be tossed in fairly deep and worked through, as long is they aren't really thick.   I work a chatterbait over, around, and through laydowns that I get in trouble with a spinnerbait.   And, I face a lot of water where I get 12-18" between the top of the grass and the surface -- a chatterbait comes across the top clean and even when it dips in, I can almost always rip it clean.  I don't have nearly the luck (skill) of pulling a spinnerbait across the top of grass like that.

[Munkin]

On 5/30/2020 at 2:00 PM, scaleface said:

Not me . I have yet to catch a bass on a chatterbait .

Same here and at this point I swear I am just carrying them to say I use them.

 

Allen