Booyah Chatterbaits

[krisjack69]

I would like to know where to tie this.I'm guessing I tie the line to the thing on the blade.Any help would be great.

[basspro48]

yup tie right to that little snap thing, IMO those things are junk. I'm finding the KaRu vibraspin to be much more effective than any chatter type bait I have used.

Just my opinion.

[Cory20]

It's a swimming jig with a little bling.  Add a little more and you get a spinner bait.  It's always been a hit or miss bait with me.  Seemed like a fad for the summer.  

Is that vibra blade removable on the Karu product?

[The_Natural]

I've had a lot of success with the Booyah Boogie Bait, but the leverage hook hangs on everything.  It is far from weedless.  I've decided it's fish-catching ability outweighs it's ability to hang up, so I just carry several extras  .  In stained water, the gold boogie bait just tears'em up.  One of my go-to's...

[rondef]

I have only caught one fish on the Booyah chatterbait (boogiebait), it was a 31 inch 8lb long-nosed Gar.  The jury is still out on wether I think I will ever catch a LMB with one.

[tallydude]

It took me a long time to catch anything with it either, but it seems to work well in the summertime, particularly when the water is rough. I rarely fish it lately, though.

[BassFishingMachine]

How do you fish it? Like a spinnerbait, with a steady retreive? or do you bounce it and twich it? Do you use a trailer? What type of trailer? Bought one but im clueless on how to fish this thing.

[koko36265]

It depends on where I am at for me.. On the lake they do not produce but in local ponds they are killer.... Biggest one I have caught is a 6.2 pounder.

[MALTESE FALCON]

I've caught more bass using a swimming senko or a fluke as my trailer vs the trailer that comes with the Boogie Bait.

Falcon

[ZombyGuru]

looks like money in the water, but i've had limited success.  However, my buddy caught a 17 approaching 18 incher after he asked if he could try my rig out  (3rd cast......).  IMHO the baits are shoddy quality at best and overpriced.  I bought two right off the bat and first one broke after 1/2 day the second the next day after one pike catch.

[Tokyo Tony]

At first, I couldn't stand the Chatter-style baits.  They just looked too weird and I just had no confidence in them.  But in the past few months, they've become one of my go-to baits, ESPECIALLY for night fishing (Black-Blue color with black blade).  

I prefer the brand Chatterbait over the Booyah Boogiebait because I like the action a little more and you can work them more slowly than you can the booyah of comparable blade size.  The one thing I like more about the Booyah is that you can really cast the 3/8 oz model far compared with the bigger-sized Chatterbait.  I use the Booyahs more when I'm shore fishing and really need to wing it out there.  I just ordered some Gambler swim blades, so I'm curious about the action on those, but for now the Chatterbaits are awesome.  My brother caught his PB on a red/white chatterbait last spring, and I seem to catch better-than-average fish on them.  The one time they're generally not good at all is in finesse-type situations because they're so bulky and loud.  But for stained to muddy water and night fishing they're awesome.

One thing is, you really need to experiment with the retrieve.  Most of the time I've found that a slow retrieve close to the bottom is effective, with two and three twitches thrown in.  But I have had nights when a steady fast retrieve near the surface is much better.  I've seen, during the day, bass fly out from laydowns and just smash the lure when a plastic retrieved through the same area would not produce.

I think once you get over the general appearance and catch a few fish with these, you'll really like them.

Oh, and I've never had problems with these baits breaking, and for trailers I use the ones that come with them.  I really like the plastic material on the Chatterbait brand trailers.