Rat-L traps catch fish.  Always have.  I love to fish these as a fun-fishing bait to catch those schooling buck bass chasing huge baitfish schools in summer, but I have seen a lot of good fish caught over the weed beds with them, too.  My only complaint (other than like everything else they keep getting more and more expensive) is that the paint does not hold them very well anymore.  Some colors seem to be worse than others, but none of them hold paint like the old ones did.  A couple of knicks off of tree tops, stumps, rocks, or the side of the boat and the paint starts chipping away.  Love the Gold Tennessee Shad color late in the evening with mid water clarity.