Z-Man ChatterBait vs Strike King Thunder Cricket
Written by John Wren|

B00EAMDIEO if you want ChatterBait CB38-69 Bad Shad Gold hex-blade language. B07QZ4MJ58 if you want Thunder Cricket TCVSJ38-465 Green Pumpkin language.
Key takeaways
- ChatterBait on B00EAMDIEO prints hex ChatterBlade and 5/0 hook bladed-jig language.
- Thunder Cricket on B07QZ4MJ58 prints vibrating swim jig, silver blade, and 4/0 jungle-hook language.
- A spinnerbait or soft-stick fight is a different ASIN page.
- Match the ASIN before you match the shared bladed-jig aisle name.
Buy the Z-Man Original ChatterBait, model CB38-69, Color Bad Shad Gold, Size 3/8-Ounce, ASIN B00EAMDIEO, when you want the bladed jig whose feature line prints hex-shaped ChatterBlade language, a 5/0 hook, and flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language. Buy the Strike King Thunder Cricket, model TCVSJ38-465, Color Green Pumpkin, Size 3/8 oz, ASIN B07QZ4MJ58, when you want the vibrating swim jig whose feature line prints silver blade language, a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, and wire bait keeper language. Match the ASIN before you match the word chatterbait, the word vibrating jig, or the shared bladed-jig conversation.
Short version. A BOOYAH Pond Magic and a Strike King Bleeding Spinnerbait are spinnerbaits, not a ChatterBait or Thunder Cricket card. A Rapala Ike's Custom Ink DT and a Strike King KVD 1.5 are hard crankbaits, not bladed jigs. A MaxScent The General and a Rage Twin Tail Menace Grub are soft plastics, not hex-blade or silver-blade vibrating jigs. A Heddon Zara Spook and a Lucky Craft Pointer 78SP are a walking topwater and a suspending jerkbait. A Rapala F7 and a Yo-Zuri 3DB Minnow 90 are floating hard minnows. A Yamamoto Senko and a Zoom Super Fluke keep a soft stick and fluke seat warm without rewriting B00EAMDIEO. B00EAMDIEO and B07QZ4MJ58 are the two bladed-jig cards here.

| Job | Z-Man Original ChatterBait | Strike King Thunder Cricket | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the card says you are holding | ASIN B00EAMDIEO, model CB38-69, Color Bad Shad Gold, Size 3/8-Ounce, Original ChatterBait | ASIN B07QZ4MJ58, model TCVSJ38-465, Color Green Pumpkin, Size 3/8 oz, Thunder Cricket vibrating swim jig | Match the ASIN before a non-CB38-69 ChatterBait sibling or a non-TCVSJ38-465 Thunder Cricket. |
| Blade language | Hex-shaped ChatterBlade | Silver blade; vibrating swim jig framing | Hex-shaped ChatterBlade is Z-Man language. Silver blade on a vibrating swim jig is Thunder Cricket language. |
| Hook and keeper language | 5/0 hook | 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook; wire bait keeper | Five-aught hook is ChatterBait language. Four-aught jungle-style flipping hook and wire bait keeper are Thunder Cricket sentences. |
| How the lure is usually framed | Flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language | Vibrating swim jig | Spinnerbait flash, crankbait vibration, and jig profile are Z-Man framing. Vibrating swim jig is Strike King framing. |
| Weight and color language | 3/8-Ounce; Bad Shad Gold | 3/8 oz; Green Pumpkin | Same ounce class, different color cells. Do not merge Bad Shad Gold into Green Pumpkin. |
| What this is not | Not a Thunder Cricket 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook with wire bait keeper, not a spinnerbait | Not an Original ChatterBait with hex-shaped ChatterBlade and 5/0 hook, not a hard crank | Buy the part on the card you opened. |
Z-Man Original ChatterBait model CB38-69 Color Bad Shad Gold Size 3/8-Ounce is ASIN B00EAMDIEO. Strike King Thunder Cricket model TCVSJ38-465 Color Green Pumpkin Size 3/8 oz is ASIN B07QZ4MJ58. A spinnerbait, a hard crank, a soft stick, a walking topwater, and a floating hard minnow are different cards.
Who should buy the Z-Man Original ChatterBait, and who should buy the Strike King Thunder Cricket?
Buy B00EAMDIEO if you want the Z-Man Original ChatterBait model CB38-69 Color Bad Shad Gold Size 3/8-Ounce whose feature line prints hex-shaped ChatterBlade language, a 5/0 hook, and flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language. Buy it when a hex-shaped ChatterBlade bladed jig with that framing sentence is the job, when Bad Shad Gold is the color cell you opened, and when you will keep Original ChatterBait model CB38-69 attached to that ASIN instead of shopping a Thunder Cricket Green Pumpkin photograph alone.
Buy B07QZ4MJ58 if you want the Strike King Thunder Cricket model TCVSJ38-465 Color Green Pumpkin Size 3/8 oz whose feature line prints vibrating swim jig language, silver blade language, a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, and wire bait keeper language. Buy it when a vibrating swim jig with a silver blade, a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, and a wire bait keeper is the story you opened, not a 3/8-Ounce Original ChatterBait Bad Shad Gold with a hex-shaped ChatterBlade and a 5/0 hook.
Buy neither if you wanted a spinnerbait. The Pond Magic and Bleeding Spinnerbait fight already owns that seat. Buy neither if you wanted a hard crankbait. That is the Rapala Ike's Custom Ink DT and Strike King KVD 1.5 pair. Buy neither if you wanted a soft plastic stick or twin-tail grub. That is the MaxScent The General and Rage Twin Tail pair, and the Yamamoto Senko and Zoom Super Fluke pair. Buy neither if you needed a walking topwater or a suspending jerkbait. That is the Zara Spook and Pointer 78SP fight. Buy neither if a Rapala F7 versus 3DB Minnow 90 floating hard minnow fight was the shelf you meant and you will not open B00EAMDIEO or B07QZ4MJ58.
What is the Z-Man Original ChatterBait actually for?
This card is a Z-Man Original ChatterBait, model CB38-69, Color Bad Shad Gold, Size 3/8-Ounce, ASIN B00EAMDIEO. The Amazon feature block that travels with this part prints hex-shaped ChatterBlade language, a 5/0 hook, and flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language. Those cells belong to B00EAMDIEO / CB38-69. Do not paste a silver blade story, a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook cell, wire bait keeper language, or vibrating swim jig framing onto this ASIN because the word chatterbait or the word bladed jig matched in a search box.
Hex-shaped ChatterBlade is the blade-shape sentence. Five-aught hook is the hook sentence. Flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig is the primary-use framing the feature line prints for the Original ChatterBait family. Color Bad Shad Gold is the color sentence on the title. Size 3/8-Ounce is the weight sentence. Model CB38-69 is the model string that keeps this Original ChatterBait attached to B00EAMDIEO. None of those sentences is silver blade language borrowed from the Thunder Cricket card. None of them is a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook. None of them invents a different ChatterBait weight, a trailer count, or a blade diameter the Amazon feature block on B00EAMDIEO did not print.
Bladed jig with hex-shaped ChatterBlade is the job. The Original ChatterBait sits in the vibrating bladed-jig conversation with other chatter-style and bladed jigs on neighboring desks. It is not a claim the lure is a Thunder Cricket vibrating swim jig with a silver blade and a wire bait keeper. It is not a claim the package is a spinnerbait, a soft stick, a walking pencil, or a hard crank. A rank that files the bait under bladed jigs with flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language is a rank that matches the feature language here. Trust the Original ChatterBait name, model CB38-69, Color Bad Shad Gold, hex-shaped ChatterBlade, 5/0 hook, and that framing sentence next to B00EAMDIEO before you trust a collage that mixed in a Thunder Cricket body.
Hex-shaped ChatterBlade language is why anglers open the Original ChatterBait when a hex blade story is the sentence on the card. Flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language is the reason the same card stays in the cart when that three-part framing is the filter, not a vibrating swim jig with silver blade and wire bait keeper language. Five-aught hook is the hook sentence Z-Man prints for this card. Those sentences are the Original ChatterBait card. They are not permission to rename the part as a Strike King Thunder Cricket model TCVSJ38-465 because both products live in a bladed-jig aisle.
Keep Bad Shad Gold attached to B00EAMDIEO. A different ChatterBait color sibling is a different cart if the ASIN changes. Keep Size 3/8-Ounce attached to the same card. A different ounce string on a sibling title is a different part when the ASIN is not B00EAMDIEO. Keep model CB38-69 in the title string you open. A shop collage that shows a different ChatterBait head or a different blade finish without that model and ASIN is a collage, not a rewrite of this feature block.
What is the Strike King Thunder Cricket actually for?
This card is a Strike King Thunder Cricket, model TCVSJ38-465, Color Green Pumpkin, Size 3/8 oz, ASIN B07QZ4MJ58. The feature line that travels with this part prints vibrating swim jig language, silver blade language, a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, and wire bait keeper language. Those cells belong to B07QZ4MJ58 / TCVSJ38-465. Do not paste a hex-shaped ChatterBlade story, a 5/0 hook cell, or flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language onto this ASIN because the word Strike King or the word vibrating jig matched. The title is Thunder Cricket model TCVSJ38-465 Color Green Pumpkin. Do not rename this part as a different Thunder Cricket size string from a sibling listing.
Vibrating swim jig is the product-type sentence. Silver blade is the blade-finish sentence. Four-aught jungle-style flipping hook is the hook sentence. Wire bait keeper is the trailer-keeper sentence. Size 3/8 oz is the weight sentence. Color Green Pumpkin is the color sentence. Model TCVSJ38-465 is the model string that keeps this Thunder Cricket attached to B07QZ4MJ58. None of those sentences is hex-shaped ChatterBlade. None of them is a 5/0 hook. None of them invents a Z-Man flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig framing band the Amazon feature block on this card did not print.
A vibrating swim jig with a silver blade is a Thunder Cricket job on the Strike King card. It is not a claim the bait is an Original ChatterBait Bad Shad Gold with a hex-shaped ChatterBlade. It is not a claim the bait is a soft stick or a walking topwater. The MaxScent General and Rage Twin Tail comparison elsewhere owns a soft-plastic seat. Keep vibrating swim jig, silver blade, 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, wire bait keeper, 3/8 oz, Green Pumpkin, and TCVSJ38-465 attached to B07QZ4MJ58. A shop table that borrows a different Thunder Cricket color name or a different blade collage from a sibling gallery is a shop table. If the detail block you opened prints vibrating swim jig, silver blade, 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, and wire bait keeper language, that is the motion and keeper story this comparison will treat as belonging to the part.
Silver blade language is why the Thunder Cricket stays in motion when a silver-blade vibrating swim jig story is the sentence you opened. Four-aught jungle-style flipping hook and wire bait keeper language are why the same card sits in a flipping-hook and trailer-keeper conversation instead of a hex-shaped ChatterBlade and 5/0 hook lane. Vibrating swim jig is the framing sentence Strike King prints for this card. Those sentences are the Thunder Cricket card. They are not permission to paste Color Bad Shad Gold, hex-shaped ChatterBlade, and 5/0 hook onto TCVSJ38-465 because both products live in a bladed-jig aisle.
Keep Green Pumpkin attached to B07QZ4MJ58. A different Thunder Cricket color sibling is a different cart if the ASIN changes. Keep Size 3/8 oz attached to the same card. A different ounce string on a sibling title is a different part when the ASIN is not B07QZ4MJ58. Keep model TCVSJ38-465 in the title string you open. A shop collage that shows a different vibrating swim jig head without that model and ASIN is a collage, not a rewrite of this feature block.
How do these two bladed-jig cards differ without mixing the soft-bait and hard-bait shelves?
Both technique cells are vibrating bladed jigs that share a blade-and-skirt conversation on the cards. A soft stick or twin-tail grub will not replace either of them. The MaxScent General and Rage Twin Tail comparison elsewhere is a soft-plastic conversation. A hard crank will not replace either of them. The Rapala DT and KVD 1.5 fight already owns that seat. A spinnerbait will not replace either of them. The Pond Magic and Bleeding Spinnerbait fight owns that seat. Put B00EAMDIEO or B07QZ4MJ58 on a casting or spinning seat that matches the bladed jig you actually tied. The neighboring Spook, Pointer, F7, 3DB Minnow, Senko, and fluke articles tell you what else is in the hard and soft boxes. They do not rewrite an Original ChatterBait or Thunder Cricket card.
The Z-Man Original ChatterBait card gives you hex-shaped ChatterBlade language, a 5/0 hook, flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language, model CB38-69, Color Bad Shad Gold, and Size 3/8-Ounce. The Strike King Thunder Cricket card gives you vibrating swim jig language, silver blade language, a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, wire bait keeper language, model TCVSJ38-465, Color Green Pumpkin, and Size 3/8 oz. Those are the sentences this comparison will treat as belonging to these parts. A reviewer who timed a retrieve on a different lake is a reviewer. The feature still says what it says.
Hex-shaped ChatterBlade is not silver blade language on a vibrating swim jig. Five-aught hook is not a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook. Flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language is not vibrating swim jig framing alone. Wire bait keeper is Thunder Cricket language on this pair. Bad Shad Gold is not Green Pumpkin. Do not invent a blade diameter, a cast distance in feet, a pack count, or a wire gauge neither Amazon feature block printed for the parts named here. Do not rename the Thunder Cricket card as a different vibrating swim jig size string from a sibling title.
Keep the Pond Magic and Bleeding Spinnerbait fight on its own spinnerbait conversation when the blade photograph matches but the bladed-jig ASIN does not. Keep the Rapala DT and KVD 1.5 fight on its own hard crank conversation when the crank shelf matches but the vibrating jig does not. Keep the Yamamoto Senko and Zoom Super Fluke fight on its own stick and fluke seat when a soft photograph tempts you into a different ASIN. Keep the MaxScent General and Rage Twin Tail fight on the soft-plastic shelf when a scent or trailer filter matched but B00EAMDIEO and B07QZ4MJ58 did not. Keep the Zara Spook and Pointer fight on the hard-bait shelf when a bladed-jig photograph is not enough reason to leave the ChatterBait and Thunder Cricket cards. Keep the Rapala F7 and 3DB Minnow fight on the floating hard minnow shelf when a hard bait filter matched but these bladed-jig ASINs did not. The ASIN is the shopping rule on those comparisons and on this pair.
Read the model strings first. CB38-69 and TCVSJ38-465 are not interchangeable codes. Read the blade sentences next. Hex-shaped ChatterBlade and silver blade are different cells even when both products rattle a blade in front of a jig head. Read the hook sentences after that. Five-aught and four-aught jungle-style flipping hook are different cells. Read the keeper sentence last on the Thunder Cricket card. Wire bait keeper is printed there. Do not invent a matching keeper cell for the Original ChatterBait if the feature block you opened did not print one.
What actually fails on these two cards?
The Z-Man Original ChatterBait card fails when hex-shaped ChatterBlade and flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language are rewritten as a Thunder Cricket silver blade vibrating swim jig without renaming the part. It fails when 5/0 hook is sold as 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook language the ChatterBait bullets never printed. It fails when Bad Shad Gold is ignored and a different ChatterBait color sibling is assumed to share B00EAMDIEO. It fails when wire bait keeper language is pasted onto CB38-69 from the Strike King card. It fails when a Thunder Cricket is ordered because the word bladed jig matched and the B00EAMDIEO cell was not checked. It fails when Size 3/8-Ounce is ignored and a different ounce string is assumed to share the same ASIN. It fails when a soft stick or floating minnow photograph is treated as the same ASIN as Original ChatterBait model CB38-69.
The Strike King Thunder Cricket card fails when B07QZ4MJ58, model TCVSJ38-465, and a different vibrating swim jig size string are treated as one ASIN. It fails when silver blade and vibrating swim jig language are ignored and hex-shaped ChatterBlade framing is pasted onto the Green Pumpkin. It fails when 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook is ignored and a 5/0 hook story is pasted onto TCVSJ38-465. It fails when wire bait keeper language is described as a Z-Man framing sentence the Thunder Cricket card does not print as flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig. It fails when Green Pumpkin is rounded into Bad Shad Gold because both bags say bladed jig. It fails when a Yamamoto Senko or Zoom fluke ASIN is opened because both conversations mention fishing baits. It fails when a hard Spook, Pointer, DT, or KVD photograph is ordered because a search box said bait and the bladed-jig cells were not checked. It fails when a Pond Magic or Bleeding Spinnerbait ASIN is opened because both conversations mention blades.
The shared failure is shopping a bladed-jig aisle photograph without reading hex-shaped ChatterBlade Bad Shad Gold versus silver-blade Thunder Cricket Green Pumpkin on the cards. Blade stories differ. Hook sentences differ. Framing sentences differ. Keeper language appears on one card. Match the ASIN before the bag art.
What is this comparison not?
This is not a spinnerbait comparison. One card is an Original ChatterBait and the other is a Thunder Cricket vibrating swim jig, and the Pond Magic versus Bleeding Spinnerbait fight is elsewhere. This is not every Z-Man ChatterBait and every Strike King Thunder Cricket. B00EAMDIEO / CB38-69 Color Bad Shad Gold and B07QZ4MJ58 / TCVSJ38-465 Color Green Pumpkin are the cards. A different ChatterBait color, a different ChatterBait weight string, or a non-TCVSJ38-465 Thunder Cricket sibling is a different part if the ASIN changes. This is not a Yamamoto Senko versus Zoom Super Fluke comparison. This is not a Rapala F7 versus 3DB Minnow comparison. This is not a Zara Spook versus Pointer comparison. This is not a Rapala DT versus KVD 1.5 comparison. This is not a MaxScent General versus Rage Twin Tail comparison. This is not a price quote. The listing moves. Use the buttons if you want the live cart. This is not a reel review. Neighboring spinning and casting seats live on other desks.
This is also not a claim that one bladed jig catches more fish. Neither card prints catch data. A shop sentence about legendary vibration or legendary flash is shop language. Leave the fish count on the water. This is not a claim that Bad Shad Gold and Green Pumpkin are interchangeable finishes. Color cells stay attached to the ASINs that print them. This is not permission to rename the Thunder Cricket as a different vibrating swim jig size from a gallery title. This is not permission to invent a hex-shaped ChatterBlade cell for the Strike King card or a wire bait keeper cell for the Z-Man card when the feature block you opened did not print those sentences.
So which bladed jig should you buy?
Buy the Z-Man if you want ASIN B00EAMDIEO, Original ChatterBait model CB38-69 Color Bad Shad Gold Size 3/8-Ounce, hex-shaped ChatterBlade language, a 5/0 hook, and flash of spinnerbait / vibration of crankbait / profile of jig language. Buy the Strike King if you want ASIN B07QZ4MJ58, Thunder Cricket model TCVSJ38-465 Color Green Pumpkin Size 3/8 oz, vibrating swim jig language, silver blade language, a 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook, and wire bait keeper language. Buy neither if you wanted a spinnerbait, a hard crank, a soft stick versus twin-tail fight, a walking topwater or suspending jerkbait, a floating hard minnow, or a Senko versus fluke pair the ChatterBait and Thunder Cricket cards have already refused. Match hex-shaped ChatterBlade Bad Shad Gold versus silver-blade Thunder Cricket Green Pumpkin before you match the word bladed jig.
Frequently asked questions
Z-Man ChatterBait or Strike King Thunder Cricket?
B00EAMDIEO if you want ChatterBait CB38-69 Bad Shad Gold. B07QZ4MJ58 if you want Thunder Cricket TCVSJ38-465 Green Pumpkin.
Is every ChatterBait this CB38-69 card?
No. This comparison is B00EAMDIEO model CB38-69 Bad Shad Gold 3/8 oz. A different weight or color is a different ASIN if the listing changes.
Is every Thunder Cricket this TCVSJ38-465 card?
No. This comparison is TCVSJ38-465 Green Pumpkin on B07QZ4MJ58. A different size or color is a different ASIN if the listing changes.
Will these replace a spinnerbait comparison?
No. Pond Magic versus Bleeding Spinnerbait remains a different spinnerbait fight.
Is this a soft-plastic stick comparison?
No. MaxScent The General versus Rage Twin Tail remains a different soft-plastic fight.
Do both cards print the same hook size?
No. ChatterBait prints 5/0 hook language. Thunder Cricket prints 4/0 jungle-style flipping hook language.


