Here's my newest video on how to catch bass with a chatterbait. Enjoy!

 

 

Very interesting. I'm gonna have to try some of those different ways to fish my chatterbaits. The way I usually fish mine is to vary my retrieves from burning them back to slow rolling them back and everything in between, but during the retrieve I use a pumping action with my rod. How fast or slow I use the pump action depends on my retrieve. I try to match the pump action speed with the speed of retrieval. Was very effective for a while, now not so much. Thanks for giving me some new ways to fish my still favorite bait to throw. By the way, in case you don't already know, I'm With Scars on YouTube. Don't have much on my channel because I don't have the proper equipment. Oh well guess I'm better suited for watching videos and not making them...lol! ?

Thanks Glenn, a lot of great information in that one.

Thanks for another awesome video Glenn. Appreciate your hard work and sharing your knowledge. 

Love the chatterbait - especially with a Pit Boss trailer!

I throw a chatterbait a lot, thanks for the vid 

Thanks for the comments guys.  It really helps shape future videos I make.

Great video as always Glenn!!Thank you for sharing.

I've hooked exactly one fish on a chatterbait. It was a 1.5-2 lb that I got all the way to the bank when he simply nodded his head at me and swam away. I REALLY want to catch fish on one, but, on the pond I usually fish, they just aren't having it. The pattern I'm developing is they seem to want more subtle presentations. For instance, jerkbaits and hard-body swimbaits have not worked, at all, but, plastic swimbaits have been working.

 

So, is the chatterbait just the wrong lure for this body, or is there a "subtle" presentation for chatterbaits? I've tried slow-rolling it as slow as I can and still feel the wobble. That was how I got the one bite I did.

12 hours ago, Sifuedition said:

I've hooked exactly one fish on a chatterbait. It was a 1.5-2 lb that I got all the way to the bank when he simply nodded his head at me and swam away. I REALLY want to catch fish on one, but, on the pond I usually fish, they just aren't having it. The pattern I'm developing is they seem to want more subtle presentations. For instance, jerkbaits and hard-body swimbaits have not worked, at all, but, plastic swimbaits have been working.

 

So, is the chatterbait just the wrong lure for this body, or is there a "subtle" presentation for chatterbaits? I've tried slow-rolling it as slow as I can and still feel the wobble. That was how I got the one bite I did.

I will fish them a lot of different ways until I finally start getting hits then stick to that pattern.  Sometimes it's really slow and sometimes it's really fast.  Sometimes I need to start and stop it.  Sometimes it works like a regular flipping jig. 

 

I have my best luck running them pretty quick and through submerged weeds.  It can get old pulling weeds off almost every cast but when I hit a weed then rip it through I get a lot of bites.  Caught all my biggest large and small mouth bass on the chatterbait.

This is sick! Watching now!

Very nice.....

Would a 'glass cranking rod be suitable for a chatterbait? 

2 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Would a 'glass cranking rod be suitable for a chatterbait? 

Brett Hite who has been a long time fan of using a glass stick for vibrating jigs & has but many, many Benjamins in his pockets with one, has apparently jumped ship to a composite blank.

btw - for what's it worth - I prefer a composite blank too - but I'm a hack . . . 

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A-Jay

 

 

I agree, composite is the way to go. Glass rods are too heavy for my liking. 

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

Brett Hite who has been a long time fan of using a glass stick for vibrating jigs & has but many, many Benjamins in his pockets with one, has apparently jumped ship to a composite blank.

btw - for what's it worth - I prefer a composite blank too - but I'm a hack . . . 

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A-Jay

 

 

I miss spoke I have a W&M glass rod and I have a KVD Tour cranking stick and I believe that is a composite. I thought in ome of your videos this year you were using a vibrating jig on a KVD cranking rod. I got the idea from you so if I'm mistaken and you weren't using one thanks anyway. ?

Great video Glenn. Very well made and right to the point sir,thank you.

I have a Combat Stick and it is perfect for Jackhammers and the like.... It really assists in the hookset and keeping the fish pinned all the way to the boat. It's got a parabolic bend in the tip, but it's also got a lot of backbone to horse fish out of grass. I've really enjoyed fishing it.