i won't spill it then.... storm makes a swim bait in various different species... it only costs around 3 to 4 bucks for three of them.... they have killed for me.... thats me.. everyone has there favorites.... i just know i have killed with these.......

I have to agree. I've done well on them too!

i won't spill it then.... storm makes a swim bait in various different species... it only costs around 3 to 4 bucks for three of them.... they have killed for me.... thats me.. everyone has there favorites.... i just know i have killed with these.......

I have to agree. I've done well on them too!

so far, tons of lm bass, tons of sm bass, walleye, pickerel, crappie, and even brook trout on accident (darn stock fish).... they are very versatile....again, I am a multi species fisher, so to me these things are awesome.

The only reason I wouldn't switch would be if my line was heaver other than that I'll switch because as a fisherman you listen to the fish and if there telling me they want that swim bait I'm using that swim bait

i think that this entire way of thinking is messed up. why on earth would you not want to be using the bait that somone else has dialed in as the thing to use that day? i mean...wha? why throw something that isnt working as good or not at all?

im all for fishing something different than the other guy in the boat. as a "back of the boat" angler... its life or death sometimes.

but after about the 5th fish that i havent caught... i start thinking along the lines of why that lure is producing and not the one im throwing. then i try to figure out a lure thats close or complementary, so i can get the ones hes missing.

if that doesnt work then i start looking for the same lure and if its offered to me... you can bet im going to take it.

pride? ego? for a bait thats not working? : - thats like not asking for directions when youre lost.

great response!

...and tomorrow they'll be biting on something else.

If the fish tell me what they want, who am I not to listen. I fish to "beat" the fish, if I beat my partner, that's his problem. If my partner wants to use the same bait good for him. If my partner is catching fish I will most definetly use what he's using. I might be dumb but I'm not stupid. I compete against myself, my ego, pride, skills, or whatever you want to call it. I'm critical of myself, not of my partner.   

i think that this entire way of thinking is messed up. why on earth would you not want to be using the bait that somone else has dialed in as the thing to use that day? i mean...wha? why throw something that isnt working as good or not at all?

im all for fishing something different than the other guy in the boat. as a "back of the boat" angler... its life or death sometimes.

but after about the 5th fish that i havent caught... i start thinking along the lines of why that lure is producing and not the one im throwing. then i try to figure out a lure thats close or complementary, so i can get the ones hes missing.

if that doesnt work then i start looking for the same lure and if its offered to me... you can bet im going to take it.

pride? ego? for a bait thats not working? : - thats like not asking for directions when youre lost.

Definitely a good point. However, the lures i choose to use are proven to work on the waters i fish. I do not like tournament fishing where you go for the limit and then try to upgrade. I like to go for 1 big fish. I'd rather fish with someone who stuck ten and i catch nothing while using something i know catches big bass. I know this is not the tournament angler mindset, hence why i would not like to fish tournaments. Now if they were catching big fish...i think my ego would allow me to tie on the same lure but probably a different color. This is the burden i must bare

its hard to understand this strange attachment to gear and esp to lures an colors..heck my absolutly favorite bait and rod an reel plus the lure is whatever it is that the fish want and that changes almost everyday...no way to get attached to any one thing like that..just my 2 cents worth

Personally I think we put more emphasis on lure choice than do we on fishing location, depth, and presentation.  I have only been fishing for 2 years and almost every lure I have I have had successful days with (buzzbait, crankbait, lipless, spinnerbait, worms, sinko, jerkbait, pop-r, trick worm, brush hog, jig...............etc etc).

Occassionally there is "this one lure" that kills the fish - when I fish with my buddy and one of us "finds" this lure for that day - we always replicate each other - ego is never an issue with me personally.  Its silly in my opinion - this is "my color" or "my lure" - that is flat out silly - if you didnt pour that soft plastic then it aint "yours" - and it very well perhaps may not be whats "on the menu" that day - that stubborn egotistical attitude to me makes no sense. If everyone else was catching 5 lbers in a given area/depth, would you choose to keep throwing to a different area catching 0.5lb dinks or getting skunked because it is "your spot"?

Lures are just tools IMO - tools that work a certain depth of water in a certain way - I mean, how many times have two different colors or two different lures BOTH produced in the same day from the same boat?  Now there have been days for whatever reason that that one color on that one bait just excelled...but in general I think that many things can work - it is where and how we work these tools that is worth mentioning foremost IMO  8-)