The chatter bait is finally on my list....

[NavyVet1204]

Of lures that work. I have tried time and again to catch or even get a fish to bite on a chatter bait for at least a year and nothing. Until yesterday. 
 

The wife and I have been getting the baby’s room squared away for when he/she gets here and after we were done for the day she took a nap and I went to the boat ramp for some bank fishing. The water was stained up pretty bad and it is a pressured area plus I already had a 3/8 oz chartreuse zman chatter tied on. Second cast I got a good bite about five feet off the bank on retrieve and...my mind was blown. I was so full of joy that I actually got a bite on a chatter bait that I couldn’t help but just stand there and smile! I felt like a gold prospector panning virgin ground and then finding it. I did have a rage tail white paddle trailer on it too. Sometimes it’s just the little things my friends lol

 

Oh and the rest of the trip produced a few more bites and nothing else, but it was already a win before I left.

[AManWearingAHat]

Congrats! Just got into chatterbaits this spring. Waiting for my first pick up on one, but the water is still cold. Still 0 for the year. Suffice to say I'm impatient....

[A-Jay]

8 minutes ago, AManWearingAHat said:

Congrats! Just got into chatterbaits this spring. Waiting for my first pick up on one, but the water is still cold. Still 0 for the year. Suffice to say I'm impatient....

How cold was it ?  

I hammered brown bass with a jackhammer yesterday and the water temps were 46. 

Fish Hard

A-Jay

 

[AManWearingAHat]

Our water temps are in the mid to low fifties still. We've had a good bit of rain come through as well. Spring just doesn't want to quite warm up here yet. I've been pulling a chatterbait, bouncing a lipless up the slope of my pond, and slow working a senko and nothing yet

[Bankbeater]

Congratulations! I caught my first cb bass back in 2014, and I've been using them ever since.

[E-rude dude]

I couldn’t catch a thing on them, til I watched a fishing show that showed they turn sideways if you crank to fast. I switched to5.3:1 reels for them and ? tada started catching them on it. One of my favorite baits to throw now.

[NavyVet1204]

3 hours ago, AManWearingAHat said:

Our water temps are in the mid to low fifties still. We've had a good bit of rain come through as well. Spring just doesn't want to quite warm up here yet. I've been pulling a chatterbait, bouncing a lipless up the slope of my pond, and slow working a senko and nothing yet

I dare say that our water temps here were/are around that temp as well.

[AManWearingAHat]

30 minutes ago, NavyVet1204 said:

I dare say that our water temps here were/are around that temp as well.

I very well may just be bad at this 
 

4 hours ago, E-rude dude said:

I couldn’t catch a thing on them, til I watched a fishing show that showed they turn sideways if you crank to fast. I switched to5.3:1 reels for them and ? tada started catching them on it. One of my favorite baits to throw now.

I run mine on a 6.3:1 and I find if I reel too slow I cannot feel the blade vibrating any more. Do you feel the vibration through the whole retrieve?

[gim]

8 minutes ago, AManWearingAHat said:

Do you feel the vibration through the whole retrieve?

Sometimes it’s beneficial to just give it a snap with the rod. An erratic retrieve often gets more bites than a steady one anyways.

[NavyVet1204]

1 hour ago, AManWearingAHat said:

I very well may just be bad at this 
 

I run mine on a 6.3:1 and I find if I reel too slow I cannot feel the blade vibrating any more. Do you feel the vibration through the whole retrieve?

No friend you aren’t bad at it I promise. It’s almost like an acquired taste that happens out of nowhere versus over time lol

[E-rude dude]

6 hours ago, AManWearingAHat said:

I very well may just be bad at this 
 

I run mine on a 6.3:1 and I find if I reel too slow I cannot feel the blade vibrating any more. Do you feel the vibration through the whole retrieve?

Yes,  if you can’t feel the jig vibrating you may be using a rod that doesn’t have a sensitive enough at the tip.

[softwateronly]

Chatterbaits have always worked better for me with erratic retrieves.  stop/go, hopping, and the best one is ripping off of the grass with a reel turn or two and killing it.  Straight retrieve is the last one I try every time I throw it.

 

 

scott

[TriStateBassin106]

Chatterbait has been on my list since July 2019, best decision ever to pick a few OGs up back then. Now all I throw is jackhamners. 

[AManWearingAHat]

9 hours ago, E-rude dude said:

Yes,  if you can’t feel the jig vibrating you may be using a rod that doesn’t have a sensitive enough at the tip.

I can, just not at really slow speeds.