took me a few years to warm up to it too Sam but 1st thing I ever bought was an LC Pointer 100 in Amerrican Shad.......payed for itself and then some for the green's & brown's I have caught with it......I had a Bevy shad I was using once when fishing with RJ this spring and donked it on his Cowling.....split in half at that was all she wrote........made me think about getting another to replace it at $15.99 per unit......decided to get some RC1.5 cranks and have no regrets......only lost 2 so far but you better beleive that you pay more attention to where you cast it .......if its too nasty I'll swich to a Rapala, Norman or Bandit............only think I dont like about the Bandits anymore are the junk hooks......but I usually replace them with some Gammy trebles anyway