Chatterbaits for pikes?
Zinox
Posted 2/3/2015 12:34 PM (#751741)
Subject: Chatterbaits for pikes?




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So a bit more than a year ago i bought some chatterbaits, for our Euro pikes, and i have tried, to straight retrieve them, rip them, jig them up in the water, along the bottom. All in several different situations, at different times of the season, and i have only had some followers, and a maybe e hit or two with one tiny fish in the boat.

I have read of several from Canada, Russia and other Euro countries that use them with great success, but they don't mention anything about, the situations they use them in.

So i was wondering, if anybody have any tips or tricks to how they fish them?

Tight Lines from Denmark.
sworrall
Posted 2/3/2015 11:36 PM (#751816 - in reply to #751741)
Subject: Re: Chatterbaits for pikes?





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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Any place you would throw a bucktail, a straight retrieved medium speed chatterbait will work.
ToddM
Posted 2/4/2015 6:52 AM (#751834 - in reply to #751741)
Subject: Re: Chatterbaits for pikes?





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Location: oswego, il
I bass fish them and work them more like a jig, a drag and pause in dirty water. No bad way to work them.
achotrod
Posted 2/4/2015 11:56 AM (#751891 - in reply to #751741)
Subject: Re: Chatterbaits for pikes?





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Caught lots of pike bass muskie and a couple cats fishing chatterbaits in the spring to mid summer last year. They work great.
Zinox
Posted 2/4/2015 12:51 PM (#751901 - in reply to #751741)
Subject: Re: Chatterbaits for pikes?




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Thanks guys, i still "believe in them" or what you want to call it. So i just keep trying them, in different situations. :D
achotrod
Posted 2/5/2015 11:49 AM (#752088 - in reply to #751741)
Subject: Re: Chatterbaits for pikes?





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FYI had all the luck on Bass size Chatters and no luck on Muskie size chatters. The smaller ones have a much tighter vibration the fish love, the big ones are more of a thumping vibration. You should upgrade the clasp though they come apart easily after a fish or two.
Smiltona
Posted 2/5/2015 10:24 PM (#752200 - in reply to #751741)
Subject: Re: Chatterbaits for pikes?




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Location: Miltona
The Muskie Innovations chatters suck. You need to throw a Northland version if you can find one.