Influential bass professionals weigh in on new, tremendous responsive Tungsten ChatterBait Elite EVO™
Hits tougher. Runs deeper. Jukes sharper. Transmits sound and strikes like a tuning fork. Incites primal responses from pot-bellied bass, these big-headed baitfish hunters attuned to each sound and vibe. And while you change the frequency and dial up the decibels, the outcomes—based on prime bass professionals— would possibly simply rock your world.
“After fishing the brand new Tungsten ChatterBait® Elite EVO™ the previous few months, I consider this lure will win more cash this coming season at prime degree occasions than another ChatterBait,” suggests Z-Man professional Luke Clausen. “The lure’s efficiency and the bites it’s producing have been that spectacular.”
As ChatterBait maestros like Clausen, Stephen Browning, Seth Feider and others have not too long ago witnessed firsthand, the moment a Tungsten ChatterBait Elite EVO touches down and begins churning water, a pointy, piercing sound— borne from blade colliding with rock-solid tungsten head—fully disconnects the bass’ reluctance to strike. And once they chew, the feeling up the road and all the way down to your palms echoes with twice the depth.
“To me, fishing a typical ChatterBait beside the brand new Tungsten EVO is akin to driving a Mercedes versus a Ferrari,” suggests Z-Man bass ace Stephen Browning. “One provides a brilliant easy, reliable journey whereas the Ferrari simply screams down the highway, hugs hairpin turns and counters immediately to the slightest steering wheel shifts.
“The Tungsten EVO feels and fishes so totally different than another ChatterBait right this moment,” provides Browning. “The lure is so fast to reply that it’s nearly prefer it has a thoughts of its personal, darting and searching left-right-left (zip-zip-zip!)—effectually reacting like a baitfish in evasion mode. That’s the precise motion you need for triggering the most important, wariest bass in each atmosphere.”
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Browning continues: “The smaller, extra compact tungsten head affords much less air resistance, making it immensely castable, even into the wind. What’s additionally shocking is how nicely this lure comes by heavy cowl. This ChatterBait doesn’t roll over when it contacts wooden, so it slides proper throughout the branches and limbs with ease.
“I additionally really feel like tungsten can provide anglers extra confidence since you actually really feel it working the rod, which is an enormous think about chew detection. With conventional lead-headed ChatterBaits, it may be straightforward to overlook sure bites, particularly when bass ‘push’ the bait and also you fail to detect it. The Tungsten EVO alerts you to those subtler strikes, so even when bass initially miss, you’ll get ‘em on the subsequent solid.”
Bassmaster Elite Sequence angler and Z-Man professional Seth Feider chimes in together with his personal tungsten take: “The noise and motion of the Tungsten EVO are subsequent degree,” believes Feider. “The blade is tremendous dialed, so it begins up faster than nearly another ChatterBait.
“The motion is fairly true-to-form, too—so much like that signature JackHammer cadence— however with a completely new sound bass haven’t heard. All season, I’ve been rolling with the ½-ounce measurement, leaning on its small, compact head that simply fishes sooner and delves so much deeper than lead. Or go together with the three/8-ounce, which casts and fishes like a conventional 1/2-ouncer.
“On the Bassmaster Elite derby on the St. Lawrence River this yr, I ran a inexperienced pumpkin model, rigged with a inexperienced pumpkin ChatterShad™ and caught a bunch of massive smallmouths. Ever since, the Tungsten EVO and ChatterShad combo has change into my go-to bladed jig,” Feider asserts.
“To me, the magic lies within the intense sound that comes from the blade cracking the strong 96-percent tungsten head because it pulses forwards and backwards. The tungsten jighead produces a distinct, distinctive sound that zings your rodtip— and bass get tremendous zoned in on it.”
“Each time I’ve been within the boat with another person, the Tungsten EVO has merely produced extra bites than different ChatterBaits,” notes Clausen. “Little question, it places out a distinct sound and vibration. You are feeling the distinction instantly—it’s extra reactive, hunts sooner and falls faster. Add a ChatterSpike™ trailer and also you get much more motion, and extra depth to succeed in the energetic fish sooner. That is one lure to maintain a critical eye on within the coming season.”
Sculpted with a downsized, high-density tungsten head, the Tungsten ChatterBait Elite EVO is wired to chop by water quick, searching bites with its off-the rails wandering motion, whereas singing to bass on new ranges of vibration. Touchdown at out of doors retailers now, the heavy steel Tungsten ChatterBait Elite EVO sports activities two sizes—3/8- or 1/2-ounce—in twelve pro-driven coloration patterns. MSRP $15.99. For extra intel, go to www.zmanfishing.com.
About Z-Man Fishing Merchandise: A dynamic Charleston, South Carolina based mostly firm, Z-Man Fishing Merchandise has melded vanguard fishing sort out with know-how for almost three a long time. Creator of the Authentic ChatterBait®, Z-Man can be the famend innovators of 10X Robust ElaZtech® superplastics, among the many most coveted baits in fresh- and saltwater. Z-Man is likely one of the fastest-growing lure manufacturers worldwide.
