I started to make my own chatterbaits this past week and so far I am liking it. I have tested them out in the tub and they seem to have some good action. The only difference I can tell between mine and the originals is that mine don’t have the blade wobble at super slow speeds like the originals do.
Here is my new bluegill color that I wanted to try out for the chatterbaits. I think it turned out real well and it looks quite a bit like a bull bluegill. (looks a lot better in person)
Looks real nice jake. If you want it to wobble at slow speeds then drop down to 1/4oz and use the big blade. I have some custom 1/4oz chatters like that and man do they wobble, even at a crawl.
I’ve had my best luck with the 1/4 custom crawled in super shallow water (6-12”), they just smash it.
that looks real good jake. For some reason I have caught more fish on a chatterbait without a trailer on it. If I do have a trailer on its just a double tailed grub. If I just fish it like a spinnerbait, like making the skirt pop and stopping it on the retrieve suddenly I get many more hits.
That looks great bro! I’m sure you will nail some fish with that. What other colors have you made?
I have just made some bluegill and black/purple/ & blue. Those are about the only two colors I ever use for chatterbaits with the exception of white but I don’t have any white skirt material.
Yea, it’s hard to beat a bluegill colored chatterbait. I just take the skirts off the Z-man ones I buy, and replace it with bluegill colored Strike king perfect skirts. They don’t look as good as yours, but I still catch fish on them.
I got out with a buddy of mine today and did some fishing up at a lake an hour north of where i live today to prefish for an upcoming tournament. I got to throw my chatterbait for the 1st time and boy did it look great and the bass even agreed. My chatterbait didnt just wobble back and forth, it darted left or right every few turns of the handle making it look phenominal under the water. I ended up catching 12 of the 22 bass i caught today primarily on the black/blue/purple chatterbait but i did catch 1 bass on the bluegill chatterbait
Here is a pic of my 1st fish on one of my chatterbaits. He was a chunky 14”
Looks great jake….would you sell a few if need be?:)
I’d probably sell a few here and there but nothing like what I sell for plastics and jigs to the locals. I’ve been pouring plastics and some jigs for atleast 2 hours a day 3-5days a week for the past 2 months. With my work and school schedule, that’s all of my free time during the week for the most part…
Looks great jake….would you sell a few if need be?:)
I’d probably sell a few here and there but nothing like what I sell for plastics and jigs to the locals. I’ve been pouring plastics and some jigs for atleast 2 hours a day 3-5days a week for the past 2 months. With my work and school schedule, that’s all of my free time during the week for the most part…
Thats the problem I have jake. soon you wont have any time to fish, you’ll be making orders of 6000 spider grubs all day.
Well soon I will be shutting down the plastics business for the most part since I want to enjoy my time here before I leave for the Air Force. I don’t want to spend my last month home in the garage pouring baits, I want to be out on the water whacking some fish. Jigs and chatterbaits I will keep doing since I love making them and they aren’t as time consuming.
Did you make it with a jig, swimbait, and chatter? It looks good.
I made it with an Arky weedless jighead with the weedguard taken out. I bought the chatterblade, split ring, and snap from Barlows Tackle. Put that all together and on the jighead and then made up the skirt. Then cut down a Berkley Havoc Grass Pig to add as a trailer…. And that’s about it lol
