I have never used a chatterbait , but now I own 6 of them . The first thing I thought of when examining one was removing the skirt and adding a spring keeper , soft plastic and making it snag-less .  I know some of you had tried it . How did it work ?

LOL!

Forgive me, but I find this quite amusing...."I've got this tool designed, tested and proven to be a fish catching machine....but....I've never used it yet, but I bet I can make it better"....

 

I use them this way all the time with or without the skirt and it works great. I prefer to use them with a spring keeper.

I normally keep the skirt and use a fat albert grub on it. I try to get the tail to follow hook curve, only a 1/2" behind hoook. 

3 hours ago, Choporoz said:

LOL!

Forgive me, but I find this quite amusing...."I've got this tool designed, tested and proven to be a fish catching machine....but....I've never used it yet, but I bet I can make it better"....

 

Yep , you're right .  I'm going to throw it in cedar trees .Cant help myself , Theres fish in those trees and thats where I'm going to put that lure .

Chatterbait w/a spike keeper, ball rattle and wide gap hook. Got a few in Black. Blk/Blue, Black/Purple and Brown. No idea where I got them from. Brian.

52 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Yep , you're right .  I'm going to throw it in cedar trees .Cant help myself , Theres fish in those trees and thats where I'm going to put that lure .

For no good reason,  I decided years ago that bass hate cedar.  I rarely get fish out of cedar laydowns and even pass them up a lot.  I probably need to rethink that.

Check out the Revenge Viberator it has spring keeper.

I make my own with a swinging football head and an Owner twist lock hook. It works well.

Outdoor Pro Shop has some D&M Piranha Beast chatterbaits which use the Owner Beast hooks.  I haven't given much thought to using a chatterbait weedless since I get the impression that no matter how weedless the hook is, that big blade in front will catch on anything a hook would.