I read an article, I think in In-Fisherman magazine a number of years ago, where they discussed the use of red hooks. They showed how bass learn not to eat lures that they have been hooked on previously (in a big fish tank test facility). Plastic worms were the only baits that bass struggled to "learn". asically, they speculated that it's a way to make the lure look slightly different in case the bass are trained by previous hook sets. The lures that look slightly different may be enough to make the bass still bite. If that's true, anything a little different might work: dye, markers, stickers, skirts, etc.