Lure choices base on what the media has spoon fed angler for years
I'm not going into the match theory belief that lures should be chosen based on the current forage, but over many decades have seen the influence of the media (TV show, literature, videos) which show respected angler celebrities pushing certain lures - many of which they were paid sponsors of - insisting on the 'match' logic for using such lures. That's not to say the lures didn't work, but that many didn't do well in many of the waters I fished.
As many have seen from my posts and now the ever increasing number of angler photos posted, lure design ultimately matters regardless the forage guesses assumed to up the odds of catching more fish on average. The most successful anglers on crappie.com are in tune with what to use, when to use them and how to present them. Propaganda is one thing but ultimately the truth-in-catching is the final test of lure choices from fishing in different waters over many years - of which I have been very fortunate.