Z-Man®/Evergreen Worldwide alliance delivers new ChatterBait® JackHammer™ Child Jack™
Ladson, SC (March 18, 2025) – Three years in the past, the thought was conceived. Realizing most nice anglers had been throwing ChatterBait JackHammers at each derby and on each bass lake in America and past, Brett Hite and Japanese bass wizard Morizo Shimizu quietly returned to the lure lab.
From the soar, the purpose was to create an much more refined bladed jig that chattered to bass on a barely altered octave; to ship a well-recognized sound and vibration, but one with refined revisions to its underwater frequency, motion and profile.
At present, Z-Man and Evergreen rejoice their power-packed third bladed jig collaboration, codename Child Jack™.
Cultivated to fight the hardest bass fisheries in America, Japan and past, the JackHammer Child Jack wields quite a few tournament-grade accoutrements, main with a cultivated, downsized chrome steel ChatterBlade®. Sharing the JackHammer’s acclaimed instant-start vibration, the Child Jack leans on its direct blade-to-jighead connection to deflect cowl, produce relentless blade/jighead collisions and generate vibrant ChatterBait music—albeit on a barely larger vibrational frequency.
“Japanese fisheries are notoriously powerful, and the Child Jack has been examined in Japan with spectacular outcomes,” states Evergreen’s Morizo, maybe the preeminent bladed jig practitioner throughout the Pacific. “That was the driving power behind the Child: powerful situations and closely pressured taking part in fields the place just some extra huge bites could make all of the distinction.”
Downsized Blade SchematicsFor Hite and Morizo, tricking powerful bass meant, foremost, constructing a bait with a wider vary of retrieve speeds, from tremendous gradual roll to hurry demon. To attain perfection, each bladed jig artists vetted quite a few blade sizes earlier than punching out a thumbnail-sized hexagon, mere clicks smaller than unique.
“On the ChatterBait efficiency spectrum, the Child Jack strikes with a tighter vibration and a extra restrained flash than the unique JackHammer, however nonetheless noticeably stronger than the StealthBlade™,” notes Morizo. “Much like the unique, the Child Jack hunts freely, too, particularly once you give the lure little pops with the rod.
Moreover, Morizo says the smaller blade and its diminished water resistance allow quicker retrieves in the identical water column. “When the water’s hotter otherwise you simply have to cowl extra territory or to set off a fast response below more durable situations, the Child Jack is the final word adjustment that may entice additional bites.”
Hite provides: “Even with the smaller blade, the Child Jack nonetheless has a superb thump to it. You’ll be able to actually really feel it and skim what’s taking place. You realize straight away if it’s fouled a blade of grass, and you’ll rip free. Or when a bass quietly inhales the lure and swims towards you . . . the blade goes useless and indicators a rapid-fire hookset. These are key particulars that made the JackHammer into an all-time nice—and the Child Jack is all that and a little bit extra.
As Morizo additionally suggests, “The Child’s diminished measurement means its extra aerodynamic and casts like a bullet, even in wind. And for fishing throughout shallow grass or tremendous skinny water, you possibly can actually burn this lure, whereas the blade stays down and doesn’t blow out.”
For these particular eventualities, Morizo wished a brand new 1/4-ounce variant (along with 3/8- and 1/2-ounce sizes) for rocketing cleanly throughout the skinniest water and the gnarliest cowl.
Weight-Balanced Jighead To additional make sure the Child Jack stays down within the water column and swims with a balanced, pure horizontal posture, Hite and Morizo devised an astute alteration to the jighead. “We shrunk the dimensions of the pinnacle itself, whereas shifting extra weight—together with an enlarged, restructured collar—additional again down the backbone,” says Hite.
“Moreover shifting extra fluidly by means of the water, this reconfigured jighead additionally lets the lure skip tremendous far and straightforward, and with minimal commotion.”
The Final Hook & Trailer Keeper ComboShifting focus towards the enterprise finish, a customized fitted 3/0 medium wire Decoy hook gives the proper compromise, becoming normal delicate plastic trailers just like the 4.5-inch Z-Man ChatterSpike™ or extra compact choices like the three.5-inch ChatterShad™.
To click on ElaZtech® and different ChatterBait trailers tightly into place, the Child Jack shares the identical dependable split-grip wire trailer keeper because the OG.
“One other main consideration in selecting this hook was giving anglers the selection to make use of a spread of traces, from 12-pound fluorocarbon for fishing deeper in clear, open water to conventional 25-pound take a look at for slashing by means of grass and different cowl,” Hite explains.
“I’ve at all times most well-liked a wider hole O’Shaughnessy bend hook for one of the best bladed jig efficiency, together with maxed hookset ratios. The three/0 customized Japanese Decoy hook is a rockstar, lighter in gauge, depraved sharp and robust as an oak.”
Last RefinementsProviding a stable, reliable line-tie, the Child Jack is supplied with a Japanese Decoy Egg Snap, barely scaled down from the unique. To fight skirt put on and improve longevity, every JackHammer Child Jack employs wire-wrapped pro-grade silicone skirts.
Sharing the identical spirit of mega event wins and private greatest huge bass, Z-Man is about to launch the brand new JackHammer Child Jack on the 2025 Basic Expo (March 21 to 23), headquartered in downtown Fort Value, Texas. The Child Jack is on the market now in three sizes (1/4-, 3/8- and ½-ounce) and ten pro-selected colour patterns, MSRP $15.99.
