Used my neighbors swimming pool to try out some different lures, pretty eye-opening to see them in action in real clear water.  Here's what I learned:

I need heavier jigheads for Hula Grubs, will try 1/4 oz instead of 1/8 oz.

Football jigheads give the Hula Grubs a totally different effect, will definitely start using them in 3/8 oz for this application.

Soft plastic swimming shads by Storm-O really look like live fish, will use them more and try trolling with them.

Adding a twin-tail plastic chunk to a jig gives it a real life-like look.

Rapalas look just about how I expected.

Senkos don't do anything much at all except catch fish!  They just kind of sit there in a horizontal position when they drift down.  Didn't really notice the famous "tantalizing wiggle on the drop" but I'm not a fish so maybe there's something there.

Found I could slow most plastics down even slower than usual and they work as well or better.

Found that a pig 'n jig really can be used as a swimming jig, esp the lighter ones.

Dropshotting looks just about like I expected.

Got to see a Carolina Rigged lizard in action, tried them with a small float just above the lizard.

Now I have a much better picture of whats going on down there when I'm actually fishing and how to adapt these lures to different situations.

That's an excellent post. Everyone should try to find some clear water and observe the action of their lures. It's a real eye-opener. I attribute much of my success with the Fat Ika to observing it in action. When you see them working for yourself, you gain an understanding of why slow presentations are so successful.

I high suggest this to every newbie  

One thing most people will see is they move their baits to much and will actually pull their bait away from the fish. What they believed to be small movements were actually large movements.

a year and a half ago i had a pool put in my backyard ($20,000). i can honestly say that baits have been in pool more than i have. i am convinced it has made me a better angler. i agree with catt, everyone who his a beginning basser should try it.

Great post !!! Thanx

Yea check out this action on a crank bait I tried who'd a tought this is what a DT does under the water GREAT SUGGESTION FELLAS

*Sigh*

Muddy, Muddy, Muddy  :

Muddy, where can I buy one of those lures?  

ASK LBH he picked it up for me in his last trip to VEGAS

Guys name is Mario.  Corner of Frank Sinatra blvd and Tropicana Ave.  

Just a tip for the newbies.

It's better to test the action of your lures when you wife is NOT in the pool.

For some reason, mine gets real testy about this.  

Would the chlorine effect your line?

HEY..... THAT IS MY WIFE!!!!

Would the chlorine effect your line?

No more so than the junk in a normal river.

what about the lure could it ruin the finish of it or repel fish away from it if u dont clean it?

No.  At most a pool will contain 2-3 mg/L of free Cl2.  No more than normal tap water (supposed to have a total residual of around 1 mg/L).

Chlorine is an oxidizer, but it takes levels much higher than that to damage something.

Guys name is Mario.  Corner of Frank Sinatra blvd and Tropicana Ave.  

hahaha, that was hilarious!

Guys I would be more concerned about what I could learn than if chlorine would hurt my line or lure finish. It doesn't matter if it's a pool, river, pond, creek, lake or the ocean the benefits far exceed the any negatives.

I've got at least a half a dozen responses to this one right off the top of my head, not a single one acceptable to post here.   ;D

C'mon, don't be shy.

I mean what's the worst that could happen?

Me and muddy need help

keepin it smutty.  

I do this every year, been doing it for some time now and I still learn something every time I do it.

I don't have a pool but there is some real clear water around here. Every new lure gerts a good work out before it gose fishing...    

i live in a townhouse and there is a pool in the community that i live in.  even better than the knowledge ive gained is the fact that the neighbors think im totally nuts.  between that and practicing my pitching in the yard they think im friggin nuts.  the best is when they invariably say "have you caught anything (chuckling)"  and i respond with the straightest face youve ever seen "not yet but with the low pressure system coming in the fishing should pick up later on".  some of them get it and others think maybe i really am touched.  

You might be surprised...

I've been fishing some water in my back yard for about five years. I haven't actually caught any fish yet, but sometimes at night, after a few beers,

I think I have gotten some bites! :