fishing a Chatterbait with the Skirt REMOVED?

[Darth-Baiter]

I saw a youtube video.  I was intrigued for sure.  I took some older chatter-B and took the skirt off.  I stared and stared at my meager bin of soft plastics.  do I go with a swim-body?  a long worm?  or some craw?  if I had a Z-Man craw I would try that, but nope. I didn't.  I threaded on some FlappinHogs.

 

Winds are gonna whip up tomorrow something fierce, so none of the big lakes are feasible.  there is a fire-watch-warning at lake Berryessa!  forget that!  me and my kayak HATE wind.

 

so I am going to my local lake where I can wade back to shore   

 

I am going to commit to 3 rods.  my drop-shot, a orange red crank...and this abomination.  my blu/blk chatter with a flapping hog and its green pumpkin second cousin.  

 

anyone every try this?  did I just waste a skirt(s)?  (my friend builds his own chatters, so I could redress them fairly easy)

 

 

[ctgoesfishing]

If I was going to fish a CB with the skirt removed, I would put a Paddletail at the back of it. Rather than get one of those pre-made-ones-with-an-eye. So I don't have to waste money :).

[GetFishorDieTryin]

Ive seen a few YT vids where people were recommending to lose the skirt in post frontal conditions.  The EZ skirts are designed to be easy on and off, so unless you cut them off there fine.

[txchaser]

Fluke has worked for me too. In my head, it's like an angry scrounger. 

I really like what you put together up there with the black blades. Looks very craw-like. I'm curious to hear the report on whether they hammer it like a baitfish or just slurp it like a craw.

[Black Hawk Basser]

Send em

[Kenny Yi]

"Don't be afraid to take that skirt off"

 

-Brian Latimer, 2020

[Ski]

Seems like a new trend that the pro's are using.

 

[Luke Barnes]

I read somewhere stripers like it so I have one with no skirt and a pretty realistic shad colored paddle tail on it. Looks pretty good but only ever used it once and struck out. 

[Darth-Baiter]

I struck out yesterday.  but that is probably more because the drop shot was on fire and it was hard to let that one go.

 

I will try this evening in a bigger lake.  if the wind doesn't swamp me and try to drown my stubborn butt.

[Deleted account]

16 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

I read somewhere stripers like it...

Yeah, but they like pretty much anything. 

[Luke Barnes]

1 hour ago, BassWhole! said:

Yeah, but they like pretty much anything. 

I'm super inexperienced with stripers and all I really knew is they like shad. So anything resembling a shad and this does, but so doesnt alot of other things.