Do chatterbaits tend to catch big bass? 2024
EGbassing reply :
Well, I caught my first big bass in months today on a chatterbait. I realized something; I've caught two bass on chatterbaits now and they were both over 4 lbs. Was that just a coincidence or are chatterbaits just one of those lures that big fish like? Any thoughts on this?
FCPhil reply :
I don’t have much experience with chatterbait personally but I have noticed a trend of people crediting them with bigger catches. Not as dramatically as something like large swimbaits but still noticeable. I’m planning to fish them more this year.
The Bassman reply :
Seems to be the case with me. Funny, my best crappie last year also came on one.
TOXIC reply :
I'm forcing myself to fish them more just because Yamamoto has a trailer made just for the "bladed jig", the Zako and it gets rave reviews. I am still deciphering the hype between all of the jig manufacturers trying to figure out if the Jackhammer is just as good or better than the cheaper options. To be honest, I've struggled with the bladed jigs and can't figure out why.
Lottabass reply :
A jig has always produced the biggest fish for me, but now I would have to add a bladed jig to that category as I caught just as many 5 pound plus bass on a chatterbait last year. It seems to work best in and around weeds in a lowland type lake with dingy water. Seems to work best during the time a rattletrap type bait works. Last year was my first experience with it. Good fishing to all!
NYWayfarer reply :
A chatter bait is a jig with a blade. Jigs are responsible for some big fish catches, especially this time of year.
Hawkeye21 reply :
My PB largemouth and smallmouth have come from the chatterbait. It catches quality and quantity.
YoTone reply :
they have caught some of the bigger fish for me. ive noticed while in my hand that its a large profile bait, also depending on the trailer. when i put it next to a 6" magdraft the chatterbait seems be similar in size. so i think the overall size of it can trigger bigger fish into motion.
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
My PB @7.7lbs also caught with chatterbait, but I caught a bunch of smaller one like 1-2lbs on it as well.
@TOXICI found that swim Senko is better trailer than Zako. I bought a whole box kit just for that.
rod snapper reply :
man these sound like pretty good baits. i haven't yet tried them. it sounds like i should, but its just one more lure in my box that i have to learn how to use. Is it it really worth it, or can a normal jig catch the same bass?
WRB reply :
My favorite swim jig is a Scrounger with sluggo trailer. I tried Karu lures chatterbait about 8 years ago before they were sued by Z-Man Chatterbait for using the patented coffin shape blade and caught bass on it.
Tom
roadwarrior reply :
My #1 producer for the past several years is the Rage Blade (white)/ Structure Bug (white).
EGbassing reply :
On 2/6/2019 at 1:35 PM, FCPhil said:I don’t have much experience with chatterbait personally but I have noticed a trend of people crediting them with bigger catches. Not as dramatically as something like large swimbaits but still noticeable. I’m planning to fish them more this year.
Early spring is a good time to fish them. In Colorado I guess that would be about a month from now...?
On 2/6/2019 at 11:22 PM, rod snapper said:man these sound like pretty good baits. i haven't yet tried them. it sounds like i should, but its just one more lure in my box that i have to learn how to use. Is it it really worth it, or can a normal jig catch the same bass?
You don't need one, but you might as well get a dozen of them anyway. Make sure to get a few packages of trailers and some replacement skirts too. - Bait monkey
On 2/6/2019 at 10:35 PM, Hawkeye21 said:My PB largemouth and smallmouth have come from the chatterbait. It catches quality and quantity.
My two biggest bass were actually both on a spinnerbait, even though I don't fish them very much. Seems like the bigger bass in the pond I fish prefer loud, moving lures for some reason.
rod snapper reply :
thanks bait monkey, always appreciate you telling me what i want to hear!
Boomstick reply :
They sure can, especially with a 3.8" or 4.3" Keitech trailer which adds a ton of profile to it. I don't personally have a lot of luck with chatterbaits, but I sure know enough people who do.
rod snapper reply :
well, i better drop a hundred bucks and stock up then.
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 2/6/2019 at 11:51 PM, EGbassing said:You don't need one, but you might as well get a dozen of them anyway. Make sure to get a few packages of trailers and some replacement skirts too. - Bait monkey
...and a few packs of flashabou to go with the skirts.
MIbassyaker reply :
THe majority of my larger bass over the last several years have come on three lures: Chatterbait, Spinnerbait, and Buzzbait. All skirted moving baits.
Is this because these lures just "catch big bass?"
Or is it because I fish them more when larger bass are more likely to be active?
Largies4Life reply :
Not only larger bass, but also I've noticed myself hooking into some very large northerns as well. Lost one this past summer that I would've put in the 35"-40" range. Definitely keep the chatterbait tied on!
rod snapper reply :
now the real question is which colors?
Choporoz reply :
On 2/6/2019 at 7:59 PM, TOXIC said:I'm forcing myself to fish them more just because Yamamoto has a trailer made just for the "bladed jig", the Zako and it gets rave reviews. I am still deciphering the hype between all of the jig manufacturers trying to figure out if the Jackhammer is just as good or better than the cheaper options. To be honest, I've struggled with the bladed jigs and can't figure out why.
Come on up to Gunston Cove some late afternoon...outgoing tide....pick an area where there's 8-18 inches between surface and the top of the grass. If you can keep the snakeheads off, you'll hit LMB jackpot lots of days. I use mostly white chatterbait with white RageBug....your struggles will disappear.
On 2/7/2019 at 12:38 AM, rod snapper said:now the real question is which colors?
White...off white....or anything else, as long as it's mostly white. Dark may work at times, but for me, its always white first.
rod snapper reply :
what about in farm ponds with no shad?
813basstard reply :
I’m still convinced wider baits catch bigger fish. I would consider these baits wide
Sam reply :
Do Chatterbaits catch bigger fish?
Of course. If the bigger fish are in the area and are hungry or angry and see the Chatterbait.
Otherwise, you just keeping chucking them until you throw them into the trees or bushes or get hung up on some submerged wood and lose all of them.
You take the Bait Monkey with you and get some more.
MIbassyaker reply :
I have one new jackhammer I will by trying out this year. It needs to noticeably out-fish a Siebert Fogy for me to buy more.
I also have some GYCB Zakos to try. Likewise, for me to buy more, they need to outfish the more affordable strike king Blade Minnow, which is the best chatterbait trailer I have tried.
On 2/7/2019 at 12:44 AM, rod snapper said:what about in farm ponds with no shad?
Green pumpkin.
But I expect you wouldn't see much of a color preference.
On 2/7/2019 at 1:14 AM, Sam said:Do Chatterbaits catch bigger fish?
Of course. If the bigger fish are in the area and are hungry or angry and see the Chatterbait.
Otherwise, you just keeping chucking them until you throw them into the trees or bushes or get hung up on some submerged wood and lose all of them.
You take the Bait Monkey with you and get some more.
That's what a spinnerbait is for!
rod snapper reply :
is the jackhammer worth the hefty price tag?
MIbassyaker reply :
On 2/7/2019 at 1:42 AM, rod snapper said:is the jackhammer worth the hefty price tag?
Depends on what the other options are.
I'm skeptical as long as I can order these for 4 bucks/each...
https://www.siebertoutdoors.com/Fogy-Bubble-Blade-456.htm
...or make my own from head/skirt/blade/split-ring/snap components:
Bluebasser86 reply :
They catch bigger than average fish for me, but also produce good numbers of fish. They're great in stained to dirty water and really seem to excel around vegetation. I haven't caught any giants with them but just uncountable numbers of fish in the 4-6 pound range. I use my homemade ones and black and blue and a color I call Ivy are my best big fish producers.
BassinCNY reply :
My experience is that they catch average size bass. But that is probably because I usually prefer to fish for numbers of average size fish rather than giants. I have a short attention span. I haven't tried black and blue though. Just green pumpkin/sunfish and shad colors. The shad colors are pickerel magnets.
Fishing_FF reply :
On 2/6/2019 at 7:59 PM, TOXIC said:I'm forcing myself to fish them more just because Yamamoto has a trailer made just for the "bladed jig", the Zako and it gets rave reviews. I am still deciphering the hype between all of the jig manufacturers trying to figure out if the Jackhammer is just as good or better than the cheaper options. To be honest, I've struggled with the bladed jigs and can't figure out why.
Ha! Guess I'm not the only one. I have more luck with a spinnerbait, but after watching the success of a the MLF guys and now the FLW guys on the Kissimmee chain which is one of my home waters, I'm going to take some time to figure out the chatterbait.
Hawkeye21 reply :
On 2/7/2019 at 12:38 AM, rod snapper said:now the real question is which colors?
Black/Blue is my favorite and what I've caught my best on. You really only need two or three colors: something dark like black/blue, something natural like a bluegill color and something light like white.
TnRiver46 reply :
On 2/7/2019 at 3:33 AM, Bluebasser86 said:They catch bigger than average fish for me, but also produce good numbers of fish. They're great in stained to dirty water and really seem to excel around vegetation. I haven't caught any giants with them but just uncountable numbers of fish in the 4-6 pound range. I use my homemade ones and black and blue and a color I call Ivy are my best big fish producers.
I just got into these baits and bluebasser86 makes a good one! Starts shaking as soon as you engage the reel
Harold Scoggins reply :
For a rack of German beer, I can be more specific.
Munkin reply :
On 2/7/2019 at 12:42 AM, Choporoz said:Come on up to Gunston Cove some late afternoon...outgoing tide....pick an area where there's 8-18 inches between surface and the top of the grass. If you can keep the snakeheads off, you'll hit LMB jackpot lots of days. I use mostly white chatterbait with white RageBug....your struggles will disappear.
White...off white....or anything else, as long as it's mostly white. Dark may work at times, but for me, its always white first.
Fishing skirted baits on the Potomac River there is a saying that any color works as long as it is white.
Allen
FCPhil reply :
On 2/7/2019 at 12:19 AM, MIbassyaker said:THe majority of my larger bass over the last several years have come on three lures: Chatterbait, Spinnerbait, and Buzzbait. All skirted moving baits.
Is this because these lures just "catch big bass?"
Or is it because I fish them more when larger bass are more likely to be active?
I have noticed that even though the majority of my fishing is in the morning, I have caught disproportionately more big fish mid day.
I have noticed the Whopper Plopper (loud, fast moving bait) catches a bigger average all times of the day.
stratoliner92 reply :
Bigger bass on average for me. And i seem to always catch at least one really big catfish every outing also????
Dorado reply :
On 2/7/2019 at 3:33 AM, Bluebasser86 said:They catch bigger than average fish for me, but also produce good numbers of fish. They're great in stained to dirty water and really seem to excel around vegetation. I haven't caught any giants with them but just uncountable numbers of fish in the 4-6 pound range. I use my homemade ones and black and blue and a color I call Ivy are my best big fish producers.
Blue, what do you use as a trailer for your black and blue bladed jigs?
Not_Here reply :
I tied my 7.56# PB on a chatter last fall...It was at the end of an unseasonably cold October month...Chatter I was throwing was a blueback herring pattern with a white zoom fat albert grub trailer...early/late season can be prime times...the days just following the tied PB with a 5 fish 24.87# bag on it, I threw the chatterbait on the same body of water all over the place and couldnt get hardly a whiff outside of pike...switched to 5.5" hollowbody which is a decent sized profile/presentation and ended up being what the doctor ordered, had a 4.5" & 3.5" of the same hollow body tied on other sticks with poor results, swimjig, poor results and others etc...sometimes, ya just never know for sure what may be the ticket that day...it was very late fall with water temps below 50, think 45'ish or so if I remember right...
alot of baits that are big, small and/or medium have potential to catch giants...time and place for everything, just try not be your worst enemy by being stubborn...which I am admittingly guilty of/have been and currently working on that bassin character flaw on the water...reason I said that piece about not being stubborn, is I was never a fan of the chatterbait, had them in my box forever, tossed them here & there is about it, minimally at best over the years...
but last season, I had a day on the water where I paid the price for being as stubborn as they come with different baits and learned from it/changed my game forever...that valuable learned lesson paid off...because of that lesson learned, I tied on one of my most least confident baits, least thrown, on one of my very very last potential days i had on the water for 2018 before ice up and ended up having that above amazing day, on the ol' chatterbait of all things to me...
but in general, the jig is the most widely, universal and proven consistent big fish hammerer of them all...in any body of water, any place in the country and any time of season...my previous tied PB was a jig pitched under a dock...key to that particular fish outside of the jig presentation was the prime real estate she claimed...that dock was located on deep structure with the deepest water under it compared to rest of docks and shortest travel to deep off shore structure/water straight out from it, money money money 
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 2/8/2019 at 4:57 AM, Dorado said:Blue, what do you use as a trailer for your black and blue bladed jigs?
Mainly a discontinued sapphire blue pitboss or Devil's Spear but a Sapphire blue Menace works great as well.
Fishin' Fool reply :
Bulky profile bait so I could see catching above average size fish on it. A tip I picked up from Tactical Bassin' is after your Keitechs or similar get beat up instead of tossing them use them for a bladed jig trailer. They can be either rigged upside down or cut the paddle of the tail so it comes more to a point.
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