With the right luring jig, your favorite fishing spot and the perfect weather, fishing can be the best fun way to spend your free time. Nothing beats the thrill of capturing the likes of bass, tuna, salmon, mackerel and sardines among others.
The vibrating jig can be fished almost anywhere and in any type of cover. This characteristic makes the lure very versatile on any lake. The fiber weed guard helps make the lure virtually weedless.
Chatterbait is an amalgamation of several lure constructs. It has a weighted hook, skirt, and spinner hook’s eyelet, but no wire to locate the flash above the bait as on a spinnerbait.
Chatterbait is a luring jig with a blade and a hook as the main working elements. When thrown into the sea (water body), it attracts fish by using its color, vibration, motions, and sounds. On retrieval, the blade produces vibrations and clicking sounds which lure larger fish types.
These characteristics make it suitable for fishing in muddy waters where the fish tracks the movements by using their sonar ability. The fish then takes a bite of the foreign object which it mistakes for a wounded prey thereby swallowing the hook as well.
What does a Chatterbait imitate?
Which to select?
Several types of Chatterbaits which makes it a little hard to decide on the exact one for your needs. They vary in terms of color, shapes and sizes. Each of these is perfect for the fishing occasion for which they are made for.
When shopping for new Chatterbaits, I normally come up with the following criteria for selecting the one I need.
Size of the Chatterbait matters too. Depending on the size of fish you would be fishing, size matters a great deal. If it is too big, then the fish will not be able to take a bite. Alternatively, if it is too small then any fish can take a bite on the hook.
Generally, I prefer using the 3/8 to 5/8 oz. They are not that fancy but still work great for me whenever I go fishing.
Why use a Chatterbait?
- Highly Effective – Just as I had earlier on noted, the jerky movements of a Chatterbait make it an extremely effective lure for big fish. These movements imitate those of wooded preys, tricking fish of the presence of an easy catch. With a proper color choice in collaboration with the vibrations, it is a sure way of getting back home with a catch.
- Debris Do Not Hinder It – The blade fitted on the hook is not only for producing the vibrations and flushing in water. It also acts as a debris deflector with the relatively sharp edges. In turn, the bait is not snagged and caught up in seaweeds.
- Easy to Cast – The streamlined profile of the lure makes it an easy jig to cast. To be honest, I even cast it in high winds to the exact spot I had intended to. And since its weight is unevenly distributed, falling more to the head, the bait is drawn in the direction of your choice.
- Retrieving it – Just as the profile enables a quick cast, it does the same for retrieving the bait out of the water. The profile moves swiftly through and out of the water.
In Conclusion
It can be said that it is a jig consisting of a blade at the top. It is mostly made up of two parts, the lead sinker (head) fitted to the hook and a body (skirt) made from plastic/metallic foils.
The sinker weighs down the whole body into the water as the soft skirt deceives fish that the bait is food.
Chatterbaits work on this simple principle.