OK.. UPDATE
This afternoon I went to a little pond I frequent and decided to give this Trout Magnet another shot
I tied on a silver / white TM , cast out 15-20 ft and in seconds had a very nice crappie on the line
landed and released that one... 2nd cast - an even bigger one.
next cast - HUGE Bluegill
this went on for almost 2 hours !! Nearly every cast brought in a nice fish - and the strikes happened almost immediately
never seen anything like it !!
I had a BLAST