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| Has anyone ever notied a difference regarding action on baits with or without eyes? Had a bait with eyes that caught fish but when the eyes wore off the bait died? If eyes make a difference, what about large ones ie. the size of a quarter or so for contrast? Question revolves around the fact that if they make a difference or are they there to catch bait buyers.
Chris
Edited by Juhas 5/3/2013 5:31 AM
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Location: minocqua, wi. | you wake up thinkin' that or was it in your dream? |
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| I'm never awake! |
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| Hey Chris, I'll put in my 2 cents. The age old question is "does color make a difference"? My answer to this is yes. It makes a difference for a few reasons tho. SOME lakes certainly seem to have a preference to certain colors. Whether it matches the hatch, it is more visible to fish, it contrast the surroundings ECT... One great reason color makes a difference is confidence tho. If you are confident in that bait, you get in the zone and you work it well and hard. Now, do paint jobs or eyes catch fish? IMO absolutely not! Reasons why? That fish cannot see the detail of that bait coming thru the water, plain and simple. At certain depths, they most likely can't even distinguish a color much less a color patter or eye on a bait. How many wood baits do we all have where they have been eatin so many times that next to no paint is left and it works better now than it did fresh out of the box?! I have some poorly painted baits in my box and to be honest, most of them are my goto baits. So you ask, what are paint jobs and eyes for? CATCHING FISHERMEN!! lol Of course this is all my personal opinion and some may disagree but that's the beauty of a forum. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Probably not but they don't hurt. That being said many fish have a false eye spot near the base of the tail to direct the strike of a preditor away from the head so Mother Nature must have her thoughts. When they are on they will hit a socket wrench or even a bucktail. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | If it does, I'd paint eyes all over the thing.  |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | They always aim for the eyes of the hooks. Take off the hooks and you won't catch a thing. |
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| With no eyes the bait can't find the fish , its just a toss in the dark !!!!!!
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| I like my lures to be able to see where they are going, and when they are about to get eaten.  Besides that, Without the eyes how would you know which end to hook your leader onto? |
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| sworrall - 5/3/2013 7:56 AM If it does, I'd paint eyes all over the thing. :) LOL, that’s funny. Maybe that’s why orange coach dog works so well
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Location: oswego, il | I like to paint the eye they dont see with on the bait.
I also like to think my u-boat never saw it coming.
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | Some of my best baits are down to one eye and a couple have none. My very best has one eye left but I think its a blind one lol. It's awefully scratched up. |
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| All of my lures have googly eyes on them. |
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| Take a look at Bondy baits and that will give you your answer! |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | If eyes didn't matter, why would so many species have "false eyes" near their tails ? |
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Location: Grand Rapids MN | Not sure about the eyes but the little red bung is almost a sure thing! |
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| Eyes on baits are a plus,at least on cranks and such. In bass at least, they prefer to hit the head of their prey. This is the reason for false eyes on some prey species, to give them a better chance of escaping. |
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Location: Detroit River | My Bondy baits, bucktails, & RO tubes don't have eyes on them & those 3 catch 95% of my fish. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Zib - 5/3/2013 10:17 PM
My Bondy baits, bucktails, & RO tubes don't have eyes on them & those 3 catch 95% of my fish.
but maybe they would catch MORE fish if they had eyes? j/k..who knows
I know eyes, and sometimes even the color of eyes can be a difference maker when it comes to walleyes...so whether it matters or not I prefer my bait to have one |
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| Targa01 - 5/3/2013 8:55 PM
Not sure about the eyes but the little red bung is almost a sure thing!
Two sharks were swimming around in the ocean when they came upon a capsized boat. The younger shark turned to the older one and said "look, there's people in the water! Let's go eat them!!" The older shark said "not so fast... Here's what I want you to do. Swim up to the boat and circle it a few times and come back. Trust me."
So the young shark did as he was told. Uncertain of why, he went and circled the boat a few times and came back. The older shark said "good job. NOW let's go eat them." Perplexed, the young shark said "well.. OKAY. But why did you make me do that if we were going to eat them anyway??"
The old shark just laughed and said: You'll learn this as you get older. But... People taste a lot better if you get the #*#* out of 'em first!" |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The items most folks come up with they think got the fish to eat when discussing details on baits are usually the result of far more than one small piece of the pattern. |
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| Used to put large prominent eye spots on all my baits, till my buddy kicked my but over and over from the back of my boat using the same bait with NO eye spots. I noticed that and asked him the question about the importance of eye spots. He said he didn't want the musky to see eye spots as the muskies are more inclined to attack if their prey did not see them coming. In other words, he felt the lack of eye spots increased the illusion of prey vulnerability, prompting a more aggressive response from the predator musky. Seeing was believing, so now I'd rather not show the musky eye spots.
I say you are better off without them.
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Location: SE, WI. | SO, you only catch half the fish your supposed to on 1 eye willy?? Or, after this post, One eye Willy will add another eye??? |
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