KeepinItReelFishing Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Where: NJ Where-where: Northwest, Sussex area When: 6:30PM - 9:30PM Lures: Chatter-gill, Sea Fly A solid night yesterday on numbers (5 bass) for only about three hours on the water. Good size however continues to elude me. I had it in my head to dig a little deeper in the crates and run some stuff I haven't in a while. A few years ago I thought what would happen if I added a chatterbait style blade to the Mattlures Ultimate gill. Turns out it does something interesting. Yes, it gives you the shake and vibration you would expect, but the main thing it does is slow down the lure and generate a lot...I mean A LOT of lift. End result; You can craaawwll the bait at a super slow speed while easily keeping it on top. In comparison to my multi segment hard wake baits or floaters the action is much more subtle, and unique. I like this rig for glass calm condition with low light. Its just not as intrusive as the big wakes that click and clack with their body segments. Granted, sometimes that's the deal.....but particularly in that super slick, glass calm water the very subtle action of this rig has paid dividends over the years when those others wouldn't get a look. Try it....see what you think. Now, once nightfall came and it got dark-dark I pulled out the Lemire's Sea Fly (5", 3oz). This thing makes the Arbogast Jitterbug XL look like a little toy. Its an all wood bait, line through, with a XXL swiveling barrel for the marine grade treble hook. If ya miss them on that and they grab the tail what they get then is a 4/0 inline hook. Point being your likely fishing this around weeds/cover and both hook propositions are purposeful in keeping your giant on even in those sketchy areas....at night.....where you can't see what they hell is quite happening out there. Another interesting thing I have noticed, there are no subtle strikes on big/XL sized Jitterbug style lures. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE is like a small stick of TNT exploded under the lure. Something about that very loud and deep 'PLOP - PLOP - PLOP'. No slurping baits off the surface with these, its absolute 100% "I'm gonna f'in crush every bone in your body" style strikes!! I truly think this is due to the sound and relating 'swim signature'. They believe that only a violently crushing blow will be able to subdue this meal. Many of my other large wakes....9" Slammer, 3:16 Wake Jr., 8" Mattlures Meathead, etc. I get the lure either slurped off the surface or these minimal strikes. Just something to keep in mind if your of the "I like heart stopping, Jaw's-like strikes in the dead of night" persuasion. And really, that's a rhetorical statement. If your not, leave now. LOL I know most of us travel in the same circles....so if you see is this post over on SU ignore it....its the same. Carl / Keepin'ItREEL Fishing lmv_bassfishing, rossco7777, ricardo and 16 others 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsbadbassin89 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Awesome. Some nice fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG_Fishes Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 awesome, love how you dialed that pattern all on your own through bait tinkering, sounds like I gotta borrow that idea from you hahaha, I can even get the numbers right now, lucky to get 1 dink per trip recently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porkmeatballs Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Cool rig on that gill! I like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noreaster603 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 nice fish and great write up man, that gill looks sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbass Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 Great fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
168 Rookie Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 In your first pic, that fish has another hook in its mouth, did you notice that?? From an old breakoff you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppabass Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 Nice work that super splash bite is usually a sign of smaller fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yev14 Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 Interesting idea on the chatter blade addition, and I echo your thoughts on the Lemire Sea Fly. High quality bait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willluvstafish Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 Cool write up. Yeah loud crawlers/jitter style baits really seem to piss them off lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepinItReelFishing Posted June 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 On 6/25/2019 at 4:22 PM, 168 Rookie said: In your first pic, that fish has another hook in its mouth, did you notice that?? From an old breakoff you think? Yup. I did see it and removed it. It looked to be one of those Eagle Claw snelled hooks. I feel like some kid was fishing with a little worm for some bluegills and then met this bass! 168 Rookie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassturds Posted December 13, 2019 Report Share Posted December 13, 2019 I love the Lemires sea fly. I’ve been fishing them for a few years. Great baits. He makes a smaller wooden one as well. That’s what got me hooked on big muskie jitter bugs. I use 8 inch jointed jitterbugs. KeepinItReelFishing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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