Recently bought a few pretty cheap and like the action but I'm not sold on the moveable hook its a hook on some kind of flexible wire. I'm not sold on it because sunday i hooked up on with 5 fish on the booyah bait but only got 1 fish to the boat the others got off fairly quickly I'm pretty sure i got good hooksets on all 5 fish I'm just wondering if its the flex hook that caused it and what's you're experience with these baits

I had a difficult time hooking fish with them. It wasn't that they were throwing it on the way to the boat, just not hooking up in the first place. 

check out D and M custom baits webpage for awesome chatterbaits, a lil more expensive but great baits.

I've been useing the Booyah almost exclusively lately because I like the action much better than the Z Man which is the only other brand I've tried. I have noticed that the fexible shank has been a problem but only if they jump. 

I've found no difference in hooking up tho.

 

 

Mike

I like Strike Kings Pure Poison. Works great, excellent quality and decent price.

Recently bought a few pretty cheap and like the action but I'm not sold on the moveable hook its a hook on some kind of flexible wire. I'm not sold on it because sunday i hooked up on with 5 fish on the booyah bait but only got 1 fish to the boat the others got off fairly quickly I'm pretty sure i got good hooksets on all 5 fish I'm just wondering if its the flex hook that caused it and what's you're experience with these baits

 

I started out with the actual Chatterbait shortly after they were introduced and not long after that I tried a Booyah because it had better components and features than the Chatterbait in my opinion. One weekend the shore fishing at a nearby pond was as fast as I'd ever seen it. Unfortunately, I lost about 10 bass on the Booyah that weekend, but landed almost everything I hooked on other lures. Rightly or wrongly, I blamed the flexible hook and have never cast a Booyah again since that weekend six years ago.

 

My gut feeling is that their claim is right about it being harder to throw. But--and I am no scientist--my gut also tells me that on a hookset, some of the energy generated goes to flex that hook rather than 100% of the energy going to directly drive that hook home.

D&M Piranha will solve that problem.

 

Jeff

I prefer the z man over these....People say otherwise but zman has been good to me

I was using these, but have gone back to the zman chatterbait.

The flexible shaft did me no favors on the hooksets.

I'm waiting to get my hands on the new Rage ones!