walleye express
01-14-2005, 01:09 PM
Hope nobody minds, but I barrowed this topic from another board. Below is the posters querry and my answer to it. What's your views on the subject?
I read an interesting article on another site (wmi.org/bassfish article 163). In it, David Fritts, a bassfishing crankbait expert, contends that not all crankbaits are made alike. There are special crankbaits, generally 5 or so out of 100 that possess special characteristics (unique actions that catch more fish, such as the ability to dive deeper or more steeply, run straighter and truer, special "hunting" action, or some other distinct movement or sound). He jokingly says that they were made at 11:30 A.M. on a Wednesday, when workers are at their peak efficiency. He also says that when he finds one of these baits, he puts it in a special place, and he claims he would not take $1000 for any one of them.
It would be interesting to have frequent crankbait users weigh in on this-Do you agree, or is this Fishing Voodoo?
My answer: Like everybody else who has or will post an answer to this question, I also have a few cranks I call (Old Scar Face) because they continue to outfish their identical twins in the same litter. But my feelings (of why this is so) on this particular subject matter, differs from Mr. Fritts.
It's my feelings, that the lure in question is actually faulty in the most slightest way, and not better made. Let's face it, all lures made are meant to be life like and imitate a healthy/swimming forage baitfish. But predators are conditioned and instinctively programmned to pick out the weak or disfigured as an easy meal. These individuals are (extra) appealing to even neutral or negative feeding mood predators. And even though we ourselves don't perceive it, I say that extra hot lure sends off or imitates a flaw that only predators perceive as an easy meal.
Think about (old scar face) for a moment. Seems the more beat up and the more paint he looses, the more fish he catches. His flaws become bigger, yet his successes better.
Thus, somewhere in that lures construction, even though not plainly visible to us, or major enough to throw off it's true running dynamics and render it useless. That telltale look, vibration or sound equates to an easier meal to the preditors, because they are an easier meal.
Most people put fishing strategies, techniques and thought processes on the same plane as we thinking, rationalizing human beings. Everything a fish does is purely done by instinct and envoronmental conditioning. It's easy to think inside the box. Start thinking outside of it for more likely answers, especially when fishing.
I read an interesting article on another site (wmi.org/bassfish article 163). In it, David Fritts, a bassfishing crankbait expert, contends that not all crankbaits are made alike. There are special crankbaits, generally 5 or so out of 100 that possess special characteristics (unique actions that catch more fish, such as the ability to dive deeper or more steeply, run straighter and truer, special "hunting" action, or some other distinct movement or sound). He jokingly says that they were made at 11:30 A.M. on a Wednesday, when workers are at their peak efficiency. He also says that when he finds one of these baits, he puts it in a special place, and he claims he would not take $1000 for any one of them.
It would be interesting to have frequent crankbait users weigh in on this-Do you agree, or is this Fishing Voodoo?
My answer: Like everybody else who has or will post an answer to this question, I also have a few cranks I call (Old Scar Face) because they continue to outfish their identical twins in the same litter. But my feelings (of why this is so) on this particular subject matter, differs from Mr. Fritts.
It's my feelings, that the lure in question is actually faulty in the most slightest way, and not better made. Let's face it, all lures made are meant to be life like and imitate a healthy/swimming forage baitfish. But predators are conditioned and instinctively programmned to pick out the weak or disfigured as an easy meal. These individuals are (extra) appealing to even neutral or negative feeding mood predators. And even though we ourselves don't perceive it, I say that extra hot lure sends off or imitates a flaw that only predators perceive as an easy meal.
Think about (old scar face) for a moment. Seems the more beat up and the more paint he looses, the more fish he catches. His flaws become bigger, yet his successes better.
Thus, somewhere in that lures construction, even though not plainly visible to us, or major enough to throw off it's true running dynamics and render it useless. That telltale look, vibration or sound equates to an easier meal to the preditors, because they are an easier meal.
Most people put fishing strategies, techniques and thought processes on the same plane as we thinking, rationalizing human beings. Everything a fish does is purely done by instinct and envoronmental conditioning. It's easy to think inside the box. Start thinking outside of it for more likely answers, especially when fishing.