Didn't mean to stir a rat's nest. I just wanted to share a couple things I had learned in the past year. (I've been fishing for forty+ years myself.) Different people have different experiences, schools of thought, training and education thus will yield different results. For instance I do not fish for crappie at all. I'm primarily a catfisherman, so for me to be using any kind of artificial is almost unheard of in catfish circles. Thus the need for a public open forums to talk about these things. Which I must say I contribute to less and less these days because people seem to get up in arms over the simplest things.