THE BASS COLLEGE

my first chatterbait bass .Caught this 3.25 on an all white zman chatterbait by exposed rocks .water temp 50 depth 5 feet weather 55 partly cloudy.

YES!!!!!!

nice job, ive fished a chatterbait for a total of about 4 hours now and still havent got a hit........ then again i fished for about 16 hours this year and have only caught 1 fish

You need to get somebody to take you somewhere else to fish if possible it will change things right away. Go to a small or medium sized lake and it will happen right away.

Thanks. dont worry Shorty you'll get them . When you do we want pics. What have you been throwing besides the chatter? Maybe its the spot???

ive been using jerkbaits,lipless cranks,crankbaits,jigs,and senkos mostly, the place i usually fish is just a small pond (about 1 acre), but ive caught some really nice ones out of it

Delawarebass at April 7, 2011 at 7:43 PM

You need to get somebody to take you somewhere else to fish if possible it will change things right away. Go to a small or medium sized lake and it will happen right away.

there are no lakes that i can go to close to my house, but there are lots of small farm ponds within 10 minutes of my house that i will try to get permission to fish this summer

this is just my opinion Shorty. i would throw a suspending jerkbait until i caught with it. fish it slow.i brought a buddie along with me today. gave him a rod and a jerkbait. he doesn't fish much at all and he caught 2 bass on it. one near a dock and another near exposed rocks in 5 feet or less of water.and if that doesn't work..... try to have some one bring you to another spot.

Great job i caught my first bass on a texas red chatterbait rigged it with a white pearl Zoom super fluke on the 2nd cast thought i got i stuck on a log but felt the line pulling so i set the hook and caught a nice 3-4 puonder. unfortuntly i lost the chatterbait to a log.

Scottie are you HOOKED on chatterbait now?

Great job guys.  I'm still waiting for my first fish this year.  Work and family lives are crazy and are really cutting in on my fishing. 

Nicely done Scottie.  I had some success on chatterbait finally as well.

there you go scottie another tool for your belt

I still havent had luck  on chatter baits, ive been doing a slow steady retreive, i have used a brown skit black twin tail trailer, and a white with red tip skirt and red twin tail trailer, any suggestions on retreive or color changes.

Just watch my Chatterbait videos. Work them fast and erratic. I have lots of videos with all the retrieves and colors in them.

Will Do.

another thing you can do is do a steady retrieve and give the rod a popping action this makes it go side to side .  Thats what i did to catch the 6lb in my picture that was on a white and chart chatterbait

slayinum at July 31, 2011 at 11:56 PM

I still havent had luck  on chatter baits, ive been doing a slow steady retreive, i have used a brown skit black twin tail trailer, and a white with red tip skirt and red twin tail trailer, any suggestions on retreive or color changes.

Look around in this section. There are really a lot of tips with that in it. 

I thought this was a new thread and was going to say hes luck he can wear a black hoody and not get heat exhaustion.