Question for Chatterbound owners

[10,000 lakes Bassin]

I fished bladed jigs on a standard 7’3 fast action rod with braid to leader and had pretty good success hooking and landing fish last year, but I enjoy fished them a lot so I decided to get myself a designated set up for them. 

I fish bladed jigs by ripping them through grass 90% of the time so I liked the faster action and braid and I was 100% set on picking up a IMX pro 883 BJR. That is until I heard about Alpha Angler Chatterbound from @AlabamaSpothunter and others.  I’ve heard pretty much all good reviews on this rod and people say that the landing percentage is second to none. I’ve heard that it also makes a great crankbait rod but that almost worries me.  My worry that this rod would be too slow for my style of fishing them through the grass.
If you own this rod how would you feel about using it with braid and ripping bladed jigs through the grass? Should I just go with the Loomis? 

[Columbia Craw]

The Chatterbound is a composite blank. It has a delayed response. If you want your bait to move rapidly after it breaks free, this is not your rod. If you are looking for the bait release at a slower pace after it breaks free, this is the rod to do that. You also benefit from that action when fish try to dislodge the bait once hooked.  The Chatterbound is very sensitive for a composite.  

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Firstly, I agree fully with @Columbia Craw.   

 

I'd really love to offer specific advice related to your specific way of fishing bladed jigs, but I just don't get to rip them from grass that often.    I will say that when it floods around here and I can finally fish them over grass, I've caught quite a few fish after I immediately ripped it free.  

 

The thing I perhaps love the most about the rod is that it has a really pronounced delay on the initial action of the tip section.   The tip is glass and then the rest of the blank is composite.    To me this allows the fish to actually eat the bait with the slow glass tip, and then after the short delay I can really load the fish up and drive the hook home with the much stiffer composite section of the rod.  

 

The rod is indeed an amazing crankbait and really any moving bait rod......trebles or single hooked baits.   The two baits I use to lose more fish on were a bladed jig, and a blade bait.   Once I started using the chatterbound for both of those baits, it was true night/day difference.    

 

Alpha Angler is such a good company that I bet if you contacted them and posed this question to them, they'd give you a straight answer.    Jake Boomer is the owner and will happily give you advice on his products.