Dear beginners, please grow out of using those snap on swivels

I’m only saying this to help you
I’ve been fishing since I was three or four years old, I started using a bait caster at eight. I’m 30 years old now. I have almost a perfect tie across all knots.
I mostly fish freshwater, bass, my targeted species.

While I understand why people use snap on swivels or snap swivels, because they can change out the instant instantly without having to spend five minutes, tying on another lure, there’s a lot of problems with this method.

To begin with, if you have a bad knot, you’re gonna lose that swivel and that lure regardless.
Second up, swivels are very odd looking in water, on lures, etc, think about it when’s the last time you saw a fish swimming in a pond or a lake or a river that has a piece of medal coming out of its mouth? Almost never.
Third, they don’t change most of any action, maybe a little bit but the best way I can describe this is imagine drawing a straight line with a pencil, but the pencil has a Z curve in it, you would hold it weird and it would act weird and it would be very difficult to draw straight line with.
Snap swivels most often change the way the lure acts in the water.

I grew up fishing with that kid who would always use snap swivels and I understand. Hey, you wanna cover water you wanna change out as often as possible you wanna get to understand what the fish are targeting, rather than doing that I’d recommend you understanding how to seek out bait conditions. For example, if you see a lot of lily pads, most anglers would a fish, a frog or swimming or a spinner bait. Another example, if you have some open water with some rock structure, most fisherman would throw some sort of crank bait or rattle trap.
My friend used to have this common issue where the snap swivels were essentially cause a lure to act more left or right or in the case of using a crank bait it would cause the bait to rotate in the water. I recall one time he had hooked into probably a five or six pounder on the other side of the pond and he had a long way to reel in that fish, and right when he went to pick it up out of the water, the swivel basically broke in half, weakened from use, and I remember from that minute on, he never used a snap swivel again.

This post isn’t to attack anybody as I said many times I understand why you use them but there’s a knot out there that is easier than tying your shoes and it’s called the palomar knot, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWw\_f7CQQLg or this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFk\_Ktw2f1w

Along with this, I would encourage you because this is a great way to get off of that whole beginner mindset, you might rely on a snap swivel for years and years when in reality kind of like learning how to use a toilet after your first handful of tries, you’re there.
Nowadays, most not for me might be 30 seconds to a minute at most, and it’s only after having tied thousands of knots in the past.

I really hope this helps and I really hope I can see you all get away from using snap swivels because you’ll catch more fish, you’ll have more fun. You’ll feel more legit and not so helpful for other instances as well outside of fishing

Tight lines 🤘🤙