This is type a bait I need to get into.  They're some real interesting looking baits out there.

Last year at ice out, water temp at 35, my tourney partner and I learned a valuable lesson. Bladed baits flat out produce in cold water.

We normally open up the tourney season at the same lake every spring, and while pre fishing boated more fish on blades than we ever did with the old standard lipless cranks, jigs, and jerkbaits.

If the ice on our lakes in Pa. ever decide to go away, a blade bait will be my #1 presentation in the first tourney of year no doubt.