booyah boogie blade

not that i am a booyah fan, but i picked up some today to give a whirl. i guess the looks of the blade are what intriged<sp> me. it has a leverage type hook on it as well, don’t know that i care for them either but i am willing to give a try to almost anything.

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I thought those were only reserved for your “pro-staff”—the GAYfords.

Looks like a chatterbait to me.

it is

i’m pretty sure Aaron picked one of them up last year, I liked the leverage hook but i dont think he used it much and im pretty sure he didnt get anything on it when he did.

ha ha ha yeah right– i could name 10

Be careful with these baits. They do catch fish and I like the idea of the leverage hook, but they are very fragile baits that break easily. I prefer either the Gambler or Rad Lures. I have not tried the Strike King yet, but probably will eventually.

For the life of me, I can’t talk myself into buying any design of that bait. It’s too much of a gimmick for me.

I’m hoping to fish with someone who will prove me wrong.

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For the life of me, I can’t talk myself into buying any design of that bait. It’s too much of a gimmick for me.

I’m hoping to fish with someone who will prove me wrong.

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Why do you think it’s a gimmick Tom? It’s just a hybrid kind of bait, and they do have a pretty cool, agressive action, at least the Gambler and the orginal do, I’ve never tried a booyah.

I don’t think they are near the hype of last year, but there are situations where they do work. Seemed like an all or nothing bait. Some days they wouldn ‘t get bit at all, other days they were the best thing going.

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Seemed like an all or nothing bait. Some days they wouldn ‘t get bit at all, other days they were the best thing going.

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Agree… seems like I was always throwing it on the days it didn’t work!

The way I look at it, if I want a skirted swim bait, I’ll throw a spinnerbait, buzzbait or a swim jig. If I want some thump, I have 400 crank baits to choose from. Not to mention 100’s of lipless cranks.

I think it was d-nort who had one tied on and let me try it. They do have thump and vibration to them. That I can’t dismiss.

Also, everyone in the fishing industry is looking for the next “hot bait” to snare fishermen. I think it’s time the fishing industry manufacturers start designing baits that catch fish, not fishermen. The amount of product “rip-offs” out there is unbelievable. Many of those “hot baits” are “all or nothing” baits. To me they are flash in the pan baits thrown out there to hook the $$$ out yours and my wallet. That’s why I view the Chatterbait and it’s clones as a gimmick. 3 years from now, you’ll probably see them on clearance racks. 5 yrs from now, I’ll still be throwing Bandit cranks, and Rapala Fat Raps.

BTW, I already have plenty of “all or nothing” baits.

I hope that answers your questions.

Well, they come through pads better than a Baby one minus, and that’s what the action most imitates IMO, except more erratic. The single hook keeps em hooked up alot better than cranks in the thick cover too.

As for the all or nothing comment, well, there was two days I had last year where they got bit when nothing else got bit nearly as well. Spinnerbaits, cranks, swim jigs, senkos, hogs, tubes, tried them all, would throw the chatter back in and catch another when the others didn’t. Why, I don’t know. The fish just wanted that combination of action that day. They are definitely different than the other skirted swim baits you mention.

The other thing is, these things basically got the “buzz” from word of mouth on the tourney trails, not some huge maketing scheme ala the Flying lure or something. I guess I consider those infomercial baits to be “gimmicks”. The Chatterbait is just another lure that caught alot of buzz on the tourney trail.

Aynway, to each their own. I don’t want to sound like a big chatterbait proponet, I definitely am not, and I don’t use them all that much. I just don’t see them as some gimmick infomercial bait, and I think they have their time and place. I hope others quit using them, they wil be cheaper and it’s nice for the fish not to see a bait as much.

PS, I noticed in the FLW post they are still working in Florida.

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Seemed like an all or nothing bait. Some days they wouldn ‘t get bit at all, other days they were the best thing going.

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Agree… seems like I was always throwing it on the days it didn’t work!

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I offered to take yours off your hands more than once.

I would expect them to come through the pads better than a Baby one minus. That’s one hook hidden behind a blade versus 6 hooks flopped side-to-side under the belly of a crankbait.

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As for the all or nothing comment, well, there was two days I had last year where they got bit when nothing else got bit nearly as well.

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I’ve got a true story bait about the Banjo Minnow and the same senario.

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I just don’t see them as some gimmick infomercial bait

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I didn’t classify them as such. What I said, was to me they were a gimmick. I did not say they are an informercial bait. Infomercial baits are sponsored by Roland Martin. I haven’t seen his name on it. Yet….

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I would expect them to come through the pads better than a Baby one minus. That’s one hook hidden behind a blade versus 6 hooks flopped side-to-side under the belly of a crankbait.

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Yep, and that’s one niche they fill. Shallow crank type action with less snags. Can be used in places cranks can’t as well, and have a slightly different action than other options.

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I’ve got a true story bait about the Banjo Minnow and the same senario.

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So, you’re saying the Banjo Minnow may have a time and place? I agree.

These are the symoymns for gimmick on dictionary.com.

Synonyms 1. stunt, plan, ruse, ploy; angle.

I jsut don’t see which one the Chatterbait fits in. I guess maybe a plan, but since they designed them to catch fish and they do, I don’t see the ruse, ploy, or angle. It’s not like they hatched some evil marketing scheme to get people to by them. It was pretty much all word of mouth.

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Synonyms 1. stunt, plan, ruse, ploy; angle.

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Don’t forget: Gizmo, Gadget, Widget and Apparatus(JC )

Like I said, that’s my interpretation. That DOES NOT mean it has to be yours. If people like the bait, that’s great. I’m not sold on it. Yet….

Sorry I used Gimmick. Maybe I should have used a more PC term like whatchamacallit.

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Synonyms 1. stunt, plan, ruse, ploy; angle.

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Don’t forget: Gizmo, Gadget, Widget and Apparatus(JC )

Like I said, that’s my interpretation. That DOES NOT mean it has to be yours. If people like the bait, that’s great. I’m not sold on it. Yet….

Sorry I used Gimmick. Maybe I should have used a more PC term like whatchamacallit.

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This kind of stuff can’t be made up!

I’m sorry. But we need to bring Back BLUE FLECK! Keep stirring Tom it’s a slow day and this is funny!

Whatchamacallit can be considered offensive to those of macallits decent, so you better be careful with that one.

Yep, everyone has to like what they like. Guess I just never got all the venom shot at the Chatterbait, by any adjective used to describe them.

Gizmo, gadject, widget, apparatus, those sound like a darn nice description of a spinnerbait too.

Maybe flash-in-the-pan or fad would be more descriptive for the chatterbait???

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Maybe flash-in-the-pan or fad would be more descriptive for the chatterbait???

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Agreed.

Dan, I didn’t know the Houston County vocabulary went as far as “apparatus.” I know you don’t live there, but you most certainly work there…..

BTW, JC loves that apparatus word.

My UW educated vocabulary streches far beyond apparatus.

My typing and spelling skills are only at a 5th grade level however.

Still doesn’t mean chatterbaits are anything but junk…
jc

Nor does it mean they are junk.

Some like em alot, some don’t like em at all, some are in the middle. America.

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Be careful with these baits. They do catch fish and I like the idea of the leverage hook, but they are very fragile baits that break easily. I prefer either the Gambler or Rad Lures. I have not tried the Strike King yet, but probably will eventually.

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Rob, any differences/preference between the different makes you’ve fished? (just in case there’s actually something to this new-fangled contraption)

well, if you guys say there junk—i guess i will go buy some more

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

I loved the Chatterbait when they first came out because they made me a little money on e-bay! Can you say $101.50 for ONE Chatterbait?! I felt so bad when the guy actually sent me the check I had to throw in a handfull of swim jigs just so I could sleep at night.

As far as my take on them, I really want to believe they can be part of my arsenal…but I can honestly say I’ve only caught pike on those things. Granted, I hardly throw them but still.

The thing that worries me is I continue to see them in the finals of BIG tournaments on TV. I have yet to see a Bango Minnow, Flying Lure, etc… on ESPN Saturday morning. I have seen the blade-baits numerous times…

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I felt so bad when the guy actually sent me the check I had to throw in a handfull of swim jigs just so I could sleep at night.

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Thanks for the swim jigs Dave
I melted the lead off them and make shakeyhead jigs, as we all know that swim jigs do not work either.

I have caught fish on chatter baits, but I do not fish them very much. They have their time and place just like many other baits.

Ron

Ron, I wonder if Mille Lacs Smallies would eat a Chatterbait? I’d bet a Mille Lacs Rock Bass would….

I know two guys, muskie nuts, that fish mille lacs lake HARD. The chatter bait mopped up on the pike and muskies from august into fall.

More often then not when I talk to someone about this style of bait they add “well, the pike love them.”

Esox anglers seem to have found a niche for this lure. But they don’t talk about it. Much.

Smallies will eat a Chatterbait. They worked well for me in very clear water near Ely, MN..