Rattles on jigs

[5bites]

i was never a rattle fan until i started diving, we take rocks and ding our tanks and the bass come in everytime to see what was making the noise, walleye do the same thing

whether that equates to more bites or not that's pretty interesting. 

[Mitch f]

Although I hardly ever use them, because they interfere with either the bite of the hook or the plastic, I still think they work in some situations. Just shake a live crawfish sometime, you will hear the rattle. It might make a fish travel a little extra distance to find them in stained water. It might also anger the fish into biting.

[Quillback]

Old article about craws, mentions "clicking" noise craws make when walking on rocks.

 

http://www.bassmaster.com/understanding-bass-forage-crawfish

[Fish24/7]

i like these

but use glass rattles that are painted diff. colors

black, red, orange,white

like bo said, let the fish decide what's best at the time

 

[fishinwrench]

In all actuality there's no way to know, same deal as color or scent.    If either gives you more confidence then roll with it.  

[Mitch f]

 

Rattles are on almost all crankbaits, and they consistantly catch fish. Even solid wooden cranks still have hooks and split rings that make a little noise. So now you are dealing with how much noise versus how little noise. Jigs banging on rocks is the same scenario. I personally think the rattles will help, especially on a more aggressive fish that's in the feeding mode.

 

 

[dtrs5kprs]

Always used them in mud, grass, etc., when fishing a big jig. Have never felt a need for them at TR. The head banging rocks will provide plenty of click (as in the 1/16 head in the Ned Rig underwater vid). Doesn't take much when you have hard material to make contact with underwater.

[mjk86]

Even if the fish show a preference to a rattle vs no rattle on any given day, its most likely not the rattle that is the deciding variable, at least in my opinion.  Just have to experiment to find out.  There will be other things at play that nobody could ever even think of.  Bass have no trouble finding brown crawfish in the weed chocked, mud bottomed, chocolate milk water of many lakes.  As a fisherman we just catch the dumbest, hungriest, most aggressive fish anyway.  Most are smart enough to realize that dumb jig is not prey.  That said...never used one...didnt even know they had em.

[Sam]

A friend used to scuba dive a lot in Tablerock, and he's told me how curious bass are and how they can be called in with a clicking sound.  Just for fun, he'd sometimes sit still on a ledge in some fishy-looking spot about 20 or 25 feet down, pick up a couple of small rocks, and start tapping them together.  He says more often than not within a few minutes he'd have a bunch of bass around him, staying just out of reach and looking him over - curious to see where that tapping was coming from.

I've never used a jig with a rattle, but I guess a rattle might help bring bass in to look at a lure - then they'd have to decide whether it's something they want to bite or not.  As has been said though, just a regular jig head, worm sinker, or any bottom-dragging rig that has metal tapping rocks when it's moved probably does the same thing.

[Ketchup]

I use rattle jigs 50% of the time, and catch fish 50% of the time i use them.  Did that make sense?  Sure