Favorite Freshwater Bass Jig & Chatterbait Color Patterns

I'm in the process of tying up jigs & chatterbaits for the swap so I'm just putting this out there trolling for ideas.

Any info you care to share, head style/color/size, skirt colors or little modifications you make would all be helpful.

Black works good. Gold shiner color is up there. Combined black and blue 3/8 and 1/2 oz.for chatterbaits.

Pig and Jig, black and blue. Or just black. Brown would be a third choice. 1/4 oz. - 1/2 oz.

Those would be my choices.

I wish I had customized spinnerbaits and chatterbaits to my choice.

One thing I want is a crawdad pattern chatterbait. This means the face plate is not silver or gold, but brown, red, etc. A trailer keeper is necessary, something to hold the trailer on good.

For a baitfish pattern I would want bucktail as opposed to rubber skirts. Want durability. Also, a weedguard. I love fishing them for pike and bass in weedy areas, a little more weedlessness is a huge plus.

I've played with some options for coloring the blades, getting the final finish to be durable seems to be the trick - spray painting them is certainly the easiest but it wears fairly easily.

Bucktail jigs with a weedguard for pike fishing...now that's an idea.

I'm tying the chatterbaits with a trailer keeper design that I found in a youtube video by Aaron Martens.

I meant spinner baits with bucktail and a weed guard, but a big weed less bucktail jig with a big paddle tail trailer would be good for pike I would think.

if you have face book check out Bryant's custom jigs and Al Rubosky, both make custom jigs/chatterbaits, spinner baits, under spins etc... They are top of the line, built to last. Also, rocky ledge makes some awesome spinner baits too.

Arkie style Jig head in black/blue. Same for the Chatterbait but must have a gold blade.

Well, I have plenty of chatterbaits left over (sizes from 1/4oz -> 1oz variety of colors), and quite a few blue/black arkie jigs in 3/8oz & 1/2oz. I'll ship them out to anyone interested using flat rate boxes in groups of 5 chatterbaits or 8 jigs for $20, $4 per additional chatterbait, $2.50 per additional jig. All chatterbaits use stainless clips, stainless blades, Mustad hooks, hand tied skirts along with a hand tied bait keeper.

I make them from both football and arkie (boxing glove) jigs in the following sizes & notes as to what I have readily available:

1/4 oz (blue-black only, football heads only)
3/8 oz (lots of colors in football heads, a few arkies)
1/2 oz (even mix of football & arkies left)
3/4 oz (football only)
1 oz (football only)

I have the following patterns left from the swap -

Blue/Black w/ clear scale belly on a blue jighead:



Pearl white/chartreuse with a clear scale belly on a pearl w/silver & black flake jighead:




Craw - Pumpkin w/ red flake & banded brown w/ green flake back with orange accent belly on a watermelon w/red flake head




Golden Shiner - Gold scale back, clear w/ green flake sides & body with orange belly accent on an mottled orange/green head with green flake

Nice looking CBs there. What material do you use to fasten the skirt to the jig?

I tie them on with a polyester thread & cement it with clear lacquer.

The bait keeper is a single strand from a fiber weed guard bent and tied around the shank of the hook with the same material/finish. The result is two plastic barbs protruding ~1/8" at ~45 degrees, the ends of which are enough to bite into a soft plastic and keep it secure.

Been playing around with bucktail combinations by request. Pretty happy with how the first one with the internal silicone for highlighting/flash only came out - the other is really just a std. chatterbait with bucktail for the body in place of a soft plastic.

That looks like a winner Ken.

You selling those or just personal use?

Selling - pm if you're interested.

Currently working on a mold to be able to make them in arky style heads (as shown) all the way up to 1oz on a 6/0 hook. Right now I have arkies in sizes 3/8 & 1/2, then footballs in 3/8, 1/2, 3/4 & 1oz.

Going to use them for blackfish?

Fluke and Seabass teasers

I have a number of different colors of bucktail, head paint, silicone & flashabou, so I can make the bucktail ones to order.

Some recent creations for online orders before I attach their blades. The top green one pictured is from my new 1oz mold, and the blue/black is from the new 3/4oz mold. Both use either a 5/0 or 6/0 hook.

Nice

Still making them to order. Many custom sizes/colors available

Shamless plug and not on the pro staff:

Caught on a 1/2oz. Version the other day.

5 pound bass caught in spring on 1/4oz. Version.
The fish like it and the trailer stays in place.

Anybody try the bucktail version anymore testimonials?

I like em!

Black and blue and bluegill colors for both.

I just ordered and received a variety of color/size combinations of these baits and various other terminal tackle items all of which are of high quality and solid construction. The bucktail versions look and swim awesome in the water. Looking forward to using them as the weather cools down. Will be ordering more stuff in the future.

I fish worker black/blue or bluegill. Both I make at home.

Anyone wanting anything made up ahead of the spring thaw please let me know. I'll get a new thread going with some pics of recent additions to my head style options.

More from the recent order - many custom configuration examples all with tied on skirts to survive pike attacks. Banded skirts are an option too, but have less profile and less action and are prone to being cut-off by pike or other toothy fish. Each hook has a piece of weed-guard tied and cemented into a very effective double barb bait keeper:

A heavyweight golden shiner pattern with a 1oz football head:



3/8oz 6/0 Spinnerbaits in the golden shiner pattern



1oz football head hook alewife pattern with a pearlescent hue:



1/2oz weedless arky jigs with rattles in the craw pattern:



1oz streamlined head in a green pumpkin pattern & 1oz football jig with rattle in the same:




Newest style 5/8oz punching/weedless head in all black w/ gold blade:



1/2oz Arky in a golden shiner with copperhead head paint & gold blade:

Any 1/2 oz. arkie jigs in black and blue?