Not many lures in recent memory have had such a profound impact on bass fishing as the Chatterbait. With a unique, hex-shaped blade, the sound, vibration, flash, and action of a Chatterbait is unmatched as it “swims” with an erratic motion that mimics wounded prey.
Ron Davis, who was living in Greenwood, invented the Chatterbait. His father had worked on the original prototype for several years before Davis
The Original Chatterbait was invented by Ron Davis, who lived in Greenwood, South Carolina at the time of the invention. His father had also worked on the original prototype for several years before the Davis began marketing the lures under the RAD Lures label in late 2003.
In 2006, bass pro Bryan Thrift of Shelby, N.C., won a Stren/FLW bass tournament on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee using a Chatterbait, and it wasn’t long after that before the Chatterbait became a must-have bait for all bass anglers.
Davis later sold the Chatterbait design to Z-Man Fishing Products, a Charleston-based company with 25 years of manufacturing experience in the fishing tackle business. While Chatterbaits continued to create a stir on the bass circuit, only a handful of saltwater anglers knew about it until Z-Man combined it with its line of saltwater plastics.
The Chatterbait has been redesigned in saltwater form to appeal to a redfish’s sense of sight, sound and vibration, and it’s practically weedless, so it can be fished through grass and around shellbeds that would snag other lures.
The Chatterbait Redfish, which comes in six color combos, features a gold blade, and the quarter-ounce jighead has a barbed keeper to hold trailers securely. Packaged baits include one rigged and one spare 10X Tough ElaZtech MinnowZ body.
For more information, visit www.zmanfishing.com.
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