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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 92696" data-attributes="member: 1305">That's not really what the over all driving factor on most all the baits you listed. For starters the fish's eyes don't see like ours and the colors that they or even humans see changes literally by the foot as you descend through the water column and even that is variable based on water clarity.  The things that matter to the fish are size, action, speed and some days color although that is far more important to us then it is to them. Lots of people talk about one color being better then another myself included but often thats more about what we use the most because of personal preference then actual fish preferences. As for what does a spinner look like....it looks like a small erratically moving object in the water. Since predatory fish feed on erratically moving possibly injured or dying baitfish this is a thing that attracts them to the bait. Same holds true with bass spinnerbaits in that they look like a couple flashing small minnows being closely trailed by a larger entity which is something bigger fish see every day as they pick off smaller fish than themselves. Of course the baits don't look or act like the real thing thus why they are generally far less productive even if you're using live bait. Ive stood on my dock many times watching fish turn up their nose on a Lindy rig tipped with a live fish only to take that same fish off the hook and toss it in on its own and have the same picky fish explode on it almost instantly! You have to think of fishing lures like you would a robo duck. Does it flap it's wings and move like a real duck....no not even close. But step back and you will see the dark followed by the the white side of the wings causes an extremely close approximation of a landing ducks wing flash thus drawing in the real birds to your fake party. Some days fish want something with a fast tight wiggle and some days they want somthing low and slow. The key is not to worry about what you think they want or more so what you want them to want but what they actually want. That's easier said than done for anyone who's fished for any length of time because we almost always enter every situation with preconceived notions of what will work even though we might be completely wrong causing us to miss what the fish are trying to tell us. It's hard for us fisherman to get out of our own way sometimes.</blockquote>

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