Had a blast tonight! NW Indiana

[keithdog]

Tonight after work I headed out to the lake with a handfull of lures and one rod. By the time I got to the lake it was already 6PM. Was just fishing from the shore. I figured I had about and hour and a half before it got too dark to see. I turned to my old favorite for this time of year, the Rattlin Rouge, and on the second cast, broke off the lip of the lure on a fallen tree trunk. Soooo, I tied on my new chatterbait. It is white, dressed with a chartruese split tail trailor made by zoom. It performed exactly as I thought it would. I landed 4 nice bass between 2 and 3 pounds in an hours time. I think maybe this chatterbait might become my new go to lure in the spring. It has all the features I could want up here where the water is still very cold. Probably about 48-53 degrees. It has great action worked either slow or fast. And it can be worked shallow or deep, equally well. It's fairly weedless allowing you to easily work it around brush and downfalls. The area of shore I was fishing was in a bay where the depth drops off fairly quickly to 8 feet. There are several downfalls in that area as well. The bass seemed to still be staging in deeper water. I tried working the shallow portions of the bay without any success. Moving towards the deeper portion of the bay, I started casting my chatterbait into deeper water and letting the bait sink to the bottom. I would start my retrieve with a quick snap, and then just slowly reel it back, with small jerks to add some extra action. The bass loved it. The only bass I caught shallow was located very close to where the water drops off fast, zeroing in on my chatterbait from the branches of a downfall laying in the water. I took a photo of my first bass of the night with my camera phone, so the quality of the pic isn't the best. I know the chatterbait has recieved mixed reactions here, but I have to tell ya, this thing works. It's a very versatile lure. You can do just about anything with it. I just wish I got off from work earlier so I could have spent more time there.