Please be patient with me as I again present "what ifs" that seem on the face of it to be just purely for the sake of being disagreeable......that is not my intent.

I seldom if ever use loud colors/loud rattles in clear water even if I seek a reaction strike. On negative fish I prefer, and this is only my opinion, subtler colors and sounds. What I want is for that fish to not even know that lure is there until it is almost on top of it. It has but a second or two to make a decision. Loud colors/loud rattles let a fish "think" about it for to long IMO.

Of course the fascinating thing about fishing is there are days where either approach is the ticket to the exclusion of the other. Likely best to try both........I would be out of luck as I carry no loud colors at all to canoe country and I would just have to sit there as Jax says "Oh, I got another one" ;D.