I need to be honest here. In the past when I first started bass fishing I used every trick possible and it worked.

I took a football 3/8oz jig in green pumpkin added a rattle, an uncle Josh pork craw trailer and added a shot of craw scent. I casted it out with a baitcaster set up straight down a rocky point. I hooked up on the first with a decent sized bass of 2lbs. It was the first time using a jig and hopping it up the Rocky point.

Now the first time I used a 12" culprit worm in black shad I had a rattle in it too, plus I used scent. I caught a 13" chain pickerel.

I went out fully loaded using every trick using rattles, scent plus sight in color and size and it played off.

So they can smell the scent, hear the rattle probably before they see the lure. The sight is probably the last thing they see.

What do you think?

Could just be a confidence thing only the fish really know but paying attention to those details can't hurt.

Not wrote in stone anywhere

In clear water bass are sight feeders no rattles need.

In stained water or thick grass bass are lateral line feeders rattle required.

I use scent to mask human smells and it helps slid through grass easier.

All adds to "Confidence"