First Bass on chatterbait

[N Florida Mike]

  I caught it on the 2nd cast,using a speed craw trailer. Color had been watermelon red, but had faded to pumpkin red sparkle, lol.

Finally broke the ice, thanks to @Aaron_H ‘s encouragement to keep trying. Was so pumped I forgot to measure or weigh it. 18-19 inch, I reckon. I feel like this is a fairly big deal for this ole soft plastics man…

[Mike L]

Good Job Mike!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[T-Billy]

Congrats.

[paulmandude]

Well that’s considered 1/2 soft plastic. Time to go full cold turkey and use a hard bait lol

[Bird]

Wow !!! Thank God for the speed craw ?

[N Florida Mike]

29 minutes ago, Bird said:

Wow !!! Thank God for the speed craw ?

Haha. I’m sayin’.

[Aaron_H]

 

Congrats, Mike! That's an excellent chatterbait bass. I'm very happy to see you have some success on it finally.

[TriStateBassin106]

Nice job Mike! I've been using the chatterbaits for about 3 years now. I didn't know the big deal about them until I got my first fish on it! The more and more bites you get on them you'll start to get a groove going! 

[Bankbeater]

Congratulations on the first of many chaturbait bass!

[GaryH]

Good job Mike.. 

[BrianMDTX]

Congrats, Mike. You give me hope lol. I’m still waiting on my first chatterbait bass. One day it’ll work for me. Maybe   ?

[N Florida Mike]

6 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

Congrats, Mike. You give me hope lol. I’m still waiting on my first chatterbait bass. One day it’ll work for me. Maybe   ?

 Thanks.It’s actually the third hit I’ve had. Just missed the other 2. 

 

[BayouSlide]

1 hour ago, N Florida Mike said:

 Thanks.It’s actually the third hit I’ve had. Just missed the other 2. 

 

 

The lower end Z-man chatterbaits have hooks that need sharpening right out of the package: once I did I stopped losing fish. Or buy Siebert or Jackhammers...better hooks.

[Koz]

Speed craw is great on a chatterbait. Try a black and Blue chatterbait with the blue speed craw. Great with a lift and drop technique.