Quote Originally Posted by CrappiePappy View Post
Yes, you will see many fish come to your lure and then swim away ... but, they'd have done that anyway & you just wouldn't have known it, and maybe even thought the cover didn't have any fish on it.
Yep know very well fishing clear water in MN

Crappie under the Lilly pads and watched hundreds swim up, look, turn around and swim away. Some would even suck it in a spit it out faster than you could set the hook or feel it. We started catching most when jig disappeared set the hook no matter what. We caught limits but the Crappie won the battle for sure.

Fished dirty water most my life and bet it happens more times than fish you catch.