Technique Highlight: Chatterbait

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What's up everybody, Joe from Omnia today and here we're talking about Bladedj ig aka Chatterbait fishing. I have in front of me two setups and we're going to go over some variables as to when I would lean one way or the other for the rod real line setup and also just the conditions for fishing a Bladedjig. The Bladedjig has become one of the most popular techniques across the country. It catches big fish, it catches numbers. Certain times of the year especially it can be one of the best techniques to throw. So as far as rod real setup with the real I'm pretty straight across the board no matter what type of chatterbait fishing I'm doing. I like a 7.1 to 1 die was zillion. This thing's got the hyperboost system. It's going to cast super well. So long distance casting with a chatterbait covering water. It's going to be awesome. Also for target fishing with a chatterbait which is my that's my favorite way to do it. Around docks, lay down, shallow cover. That zillion is going to have you dialed in making super accurate casts and skips very efficiently. When it comes to rods for more of my standard I would say 90% of the chatterbait fishing I'm doing I'm using a glass rod. This is the X-Pride from Shimano the 7 .2 medium heavy glass rod. An amazing chatterbait rod. One thing you'll notice when you pick up this glass model rod it feels much lighter, much more of like a thin blank than your typical glass chatterbait rods. All day fishability, great awesome super crisp rod for a chatterbait. My other pick is actually going to be a non glass rod, more of a graphite type rod. This is a 7.2 medium from Dioa. This is the steas. I'm using this rod more of my deeper water chatterbait fishing where I'm actually fishing the chatterbait more like a jig. When you're fishing it out deeper the parabolic action of the rod isn't quite as important I found. I would rather lean towards more of a stiff rod for that deeper chatterbait fishing because you're not moving the bait so much you 're really fishing it truly like a jig and you're kind of fishing it giving it subtle hops whether you're fishing deep coontail for example deep weed lines. You'll want to pop that bait free and just let it fall back to the bottom you're not really moving it. A really super light sensitive rod you can feel bites very well but it has that backbone that you can snap it out of weeds and snap it out of cover very very easily. When it comes to my line setup all of my shallower chatterbait fishing especially when I'm winding and moving it skipping docks always going to be 20 pound tests for me. You can run it against dock posts it's going to come through very well you almost never have to worry about the thing or getting afraid on you it's going to last all day long no concerns but when I go out to that deeper water you know 15 20 feet plus where you're fishing that chatterbait nice and slow like a jig almost I will lean to maybe an 18 or even 16 pound test there's just less things that you're going to run your line up against out there there's no dock posts out in the middle of the lake so lighter line often you'll get more bites with lighter line we know that through all techniques of fishing a lighter diameter line is a better option for fishing that deeper chatterbait offshore. When it comes to the actual bait selection I do lean towards the jack camera for sure they have in my opinion some of the best color options the best components three really great colors my favorite three colors are going to be for dirty water conditions burn and docks moving that bait really fast to get a reaction bite this dirty white color is a more of a traditional shad white color with a gold blade on it super killer dirty watercolor and then you can't go wrong with a black and blue typically when I'm fishing if I'm burning a chatterbait around docks I like a three a sounds I feel like I can move it easier it's easier to manage it you can skip it better in my opinion but when you're just straight out moving water casting long distances covering water half ounces the way to go green pumpkin also a great color you can't go wrong with that no matter what the color water clarity is green pumpkin will work but I do prefer it more of a clean water scenario I also have the evo elites here these have some awesome color skirt combinations and blade head combinations we see copper blades here which is something that's new to in the last year since the evo came out one of the first chatterbaits to have those really cool color combinations I would say and also a great dirty water option too if you don't want that full on flash of a gold blade like in the dirty shad color this copper blade kind of still gives you that flash but it's not as I guess boisterous summer water it doesn't you know it's not too off-putting for maybe pressured fish when it comes to the trailer options I'm picking I'm majority of the time leaning towards more of a pin tail style trailer for example we have the Sponkshade hog farmer version or the missile baits version these are going to give you more of that erratic hunting action of your bait to my opinion so important when you're fishing shallow especially around docks or lakes that have a lot of fishing pressure you know when you get to mid to late summer those fish and shallow dirty water they've seen a lot of baits people are always throwing jigs or swim jigs under there or even fishing a chatterbait too but if you fish that thing really fast and really get it burning it'll have a more erratic action it'll bang off dock post a little better and you'll get more bites definitely the best option in my opinion is the Sponkshade but when you get to that deeper water chatterbait fishing where you're fishing it more like a jig kind of hopping it along I found that the more erratic trailer actually does not get you as many bites I do prefer more of a straight trailer like a razor shad a razor shad is going to let that chatterbait run very very straight in comparison to a Sponkshade so I'll prefer that when you're fishing deeper and the blade of the head is just fluttering a couple times every time you pull that bait and you're letting it fall back to the bottom I do prefer a straighter trailer size or straighter tail trailer that I guess it might impede the natural hunting action of a jackhammer but it kind of keeps it running straight into and it's not too obtrusive or too too much excitement down there for the fish to handle basically so those are two of my preferred chatterbait setups for standard traditional winding and grinding chatterbait fishing glass rod but if I'm out deep fishing it more like a jig I do prefer more of a I guess a graphite rod in comparison so that's my setup for blade of jig fishing at omniaffishing.com [Music]