Just read this on another website...food for thought maybe?!

During the filming of the AFC competition held on Cania Dam in Queensland, some of the competitors had a bit of a swim while others were casting lures from the bank. “Slick” Wright, being a professional abalone diver, swims like a dophin and while swimming about, surfaced to tell everyone how noisy their lures were under the water.


They did some experimenting with some Ecogear VT 55 lipless crankers to see how far away they could be heard underwater.“Slick” kept swimming further and further out, getting close to six hundred metres out and still being just able to hear the lures. If “Slick” could hear them from six hundred metres away, what must dozens of bass anglers using them in a tournament sound like? With lipless crankers like the Jackalls, Daiwa’s and Ecogear lures, is it any wonder that their effectiveness at times doesn’t seem to live up to our expectations?Once again, Homer Circle in “Bass Wisdom” says, “The moment you credit the bass (that’s U.S bass of course!) with super hearing ability is the moment you begin thinking like a bass” If the same could true of Australian bass, and an VT55 can be heard by “Slick” Wright at six hundred metres away, what does a bass shear when a bass tournament is on?In Japan, were bass competitions are held on small lakes by our standard, up to eight hundred anglers can fish a tournament. Can you imagine what must be going through the brain of a bass during a tournament in Japan?

Yep no wonder Bass drill them It would P!@#$ me off as well.