I've noticed this year that my catches on Jerkbaits and square bills have been predominantly from those without rattles.

 

Not sure why ,  perhaps some insight on the subject.

 

The water I fish is gin clear and just today switched from a Jerkbait with rattles to one without and started catching.

Has been the same with square bills.

Overcast and water temp 53*.

 

I have absolutely no idea why one over the other.

Do baitfish rattle......

Tom

I’ve switched from a lipless crank  with a lot of rattles to a one knocker and started catching, and vice versa.
 I know they have lateral lines that feel vibration. What determines when they want multiple rattles, to one rattle, to none ……

Sorry, …I don’t know. 

I just carry all the variations. I’ve never seen any kind of consistency or patterns.  

I just got the silent 6th sense jerkbaits to try so I'll have to let you know in a few days after I fish em all weekend.  ???

 

I will say the silent Berkley Frittside is my most productive crankbait by a mile right now.

3 hours ago, WRB said:

Do baitfish rattle......

Tom

I hear some walleye do

 

 

11 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I hear some walleye do

 

 

Only when they are used for cheating in a Walleye Tournament.... I assume that is what you were referring to?

4 hours ago, WRB said:

Do baitfish rattle......

Tom

I think anglers underestimate a bass' senses besides their site. Even in the muddiest of waters bass have no problem tracking down a bluegill just from the vibration they give off from swimming. 

 

Granted, I do tend to go with rattles on my cranks more often than not when fishing dirty water. But there's a lot of times a silent large squarebill will outfish a rattling 1.5.

Lateral lines on both side have nerve ends in each pour scale to detect pressure waves created by swimming baitfish. Sense of hearing isn’t primary or sense smelling orders for that matter. Eye sight is primary and we don’t know as much about low light sight ability of bass, we tend to base that on how we interpret colors.

Hooks rattle against the sides of crankbaits not necessarily silent without added rattles.

Use what works.

Tom

8 hours ago, WRB said:

Lateral lines on both side have nerve ends in each pour scale to detect pressure waves created by swimming baitfish. Sense of hearing isn’t primary or sense smelling orders for that matter. Eye sight is primary and we don’t know as much about low light sight ability of bass, we tend to base that on how we interpret colors.

Hooks rattle against the sides of crankbaits not necessarily silent without added rattles.

Use what works.

Tom

 

Back when I was fishing tournaments we spent hours gluing rattles in our craws.   We believed it helped us catch more fish.  Since then, I haven't used rattles and I still catch fish.   I'm in the "sight" camp.

Remember the glass Venom rattles to insert into soft plastic? 

Worked until discovering “brass n glass” and still use a glass faceted 8mm bead to this day for T-rigged worms.

It’s called confidence!

Tom

@WRB

”Use what works”

”It’s called confidence”

 

’nuff said

 

 

 

 

Mike