Megabass Dog-X Diamanté: Silent or Rattle?

[MontclairDave]

Lure comes in both versions. I’ve read that silent better for pressured fish. Any experience with both versions? If you were gonna start out with one, which one? I fish some pressured waters, others not so much.

 

Leaning towards silent since most of my walking baits (Shower blows etc) do have rattles.

 

Thanks!

[PressuredFishing]

12 minutes ago, MontclairDave said:

Lure comes in both versions. I’ve read that silent better for pressured fish. Any experience with both versions? If you were gonna start out with one, which one? I fish some pressured waters, others not so much.

 

Leaning towards silent since most of my walking baits (Shower blows etc) do have rattles.

 

Thanks!

I live in socal and fish some of the most pressured fisheries in the country, one knockers work very well, scilent lures also work well but in those windy topwater conditions I feel they key in on the knockers a little better

[PhishLI]

54 minutes ago, MontclairDave said:

If you were gonna start out with one, which one?

There's no way to predict their mood. If both options are available I always get both. Can't help it, but there's a reason. So many times where I thought I was fishing dead water, but then changed up slightly and hammered them good.

[Basser2021]

I use both but one or the other depending on water clarity 

If the water is clear I like the silent ones but if the water is muddy I like loud ones

But that is just my opinion 

[Scott804]

If I could only have one, silent. 

 

Dog X is a mean walking bait. I don't know what it is but that thing will get bit when my other walkers don't. I think the clean cutting action it has + being silent can be really good in calm conditions. I have caught a lot on the rattling one when it is raining/choppy, though. If you are fishing pressured water I would probably lean toward silent. 

[bigspirit]

I picked up a silent version yesterday, I think it is going to be killer on the lakes I fish that are highly pressured. 
 

side note though, the one I got is the clear gill color and it seems to have almost no orange on the belly, whereas from pictures it looks like they have a pretty noticeable orange underside.