Warren -- with a limit like that maybe you can give out a few pointers out
to the poor , confused and the misinformed
Ken Blevins


"WARREN WOLK" wrote in message
news:Cjrag.1156$rT5.833@trndny04...
Chatterbaits are in the retail stores for $6 Chris, and are well worth the
price. My biggest 5 the other day weighed 24#+, all on the white 3/8 oz
Chatterbait. The limit included a 7, 6.5 & 5. In a NJ lake no less.
Don't knock it...

Warren
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"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
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Talk about a marketing ploy. I actually met someone on the lake who had
a couple of them, and let me take a couple tosses with them. He was
pretty excited just to have them. Really nothing special, nothing a
spinnerbait and/or Swim jig couldn't handle.

Just my opinion of course. Just like when Balsa B's went to $10 each, I
switched brands, and still did pretty darn good. It goes back to our old
thread of people putting too much stake in the lure itself, and not
taking enough credit for presentation and location. The Hype is so huge
, that someone will take one out and fish every single area with it, and
maybe catch 10 fish, especially since they have all the confidence in the
world they are going to catch fish. The bait must work, everyone is
buying it, the classic was almost won with it....Oh my god!

I guess I will end up being a day late again, but $10 ahead.

Chris
Joe Haubenreich wrote:
Well, Ronnie, your lack of success may be because you weren't throwing
the new IMPROVED Ultra-flex Bozonium-alloy, Scent-impregnated,
Sparkle-coated Chatterbait-X with Super-Sonic Rattle Chamber that just
appeared on store shelves last week. Did I say store shelves? I should
say cash registers. These incredible baits are not in stock long enough
to require shelf space, because eager anglers are snatching them up in
the stores as eagerly as bass do in the lake!

Bass have, evidently, grown jaded to the old, first-generation
Chatterbait (or "Model A" as it's sometimes called), having been exposed
to it for several months now. The revolutionary Chatterbait-X, however,
guarantees that bass will never become accustomed to it because it
constantly changes shape and sound in the water. Each cast is like
throwing a whole new, small, struggling bass bon-bon into the water.
Bass are powerless to refuse it! FLW and B.A.S.S. are considering
outlawing this new bait, but until they do, expect all bass tournament
weight records to be smashed! Smashed, I tell you!!!

MSRP on the Chatterbait-X is $10.99, but usually when a store tears open
a carton, a bidding war breaks out, and dealers report selling them to
the jostling, cursing crowd of desperate anglers for upwards of $50
apiece. Prices on eBay today ranged from $33 to $71 for lures still in
original bubble packs.

On a related note... Police raided a modest rancher near Morristown,
Tennessee this past weekend. Concealed beneath the house is an elaborate
metal shop that has been carved out of a natural cavern. Deputies are
still exploring the vast complex of storerooms, mostly filled with
Chatterbait knock-offs that had been staged for shipment to tackle shops
across the U.S. Evidently, the counterfeiters abandoned their worthless
lures, which before the great Chatterbait Drop-off, had a street value
of approximately $5 million. Now that the Chatterbait-X is on the
market, demand for the Model As has completely vanished. Tennessee
Wildlife Resources Agency has arranged with Hamblin County Sheriff's
department to take the entire load of baits, wire them together, and use
them as fish-repellents around power plant cooling water intakes.

Joe

"Ronnie" wrote in message
oups.com...
Saw an old thread about this bait. I had heard of them and figured
just another hype. Read about them in the FLW mag while practicing for
my Top Six last month and figured the same thing. Next day, five days
before the tournament went into a store at the lake and they had a big
sign but no baits. Woman said they had about five dozen and some guy
came in and bought them all, said he did not want anyone fishing
against him to have any. That is at $6.99 eacyh. Another store up the
road a few miles said they sold out over six dozen in two days.

Called a club member that was not fishing the Top Six and he said he
had some. I had to go home for a couple of days anyway so went by his
house and he gave me three to use. Went by the local bait and tackle
store the next day and ask - they had five, told them I wanted all five
but two guys in the store begged to get one each so I left there with
three.

Next day back at the lake the store that was sold out had some in so I
bought three more. Now had nine! Did not want to get on the lake and
my partner beat my brains out with a bait I did not have. Shared with
the team members in my club that were camping together, made sure we
all had one just in cast.

Night before tournament I was looking for some jig heads in my boat and
found a paper sack. It had two Chatterbaits in it - it was a sack of
samples I got last April at Georgia Outdoor Writers Assoc meeting. Been
carrying them around for a year without trying them out!

Threw one some in the tournament as did other club members. One guy
said he caught a keeper on one, I never got bit on it. No bites in my
pond, either.

I am sure they will catch bass - and bass fishermen, just like other
baits.