Its a strait up slow floater no matter what tempeture but add those weights on it if u want to tune its sink rate but yes change the hardware and once u finnally get to know how to work it it catches fish i was playing with it for a few days and i finally found a retrive yhat looks good. Next day went to neiberhood pond first 3 minutes a 4lber wich isnt a giant by anymeans hit it 3 times constantly and ate it head first so he really wanted it but what im trying to say is find a retrive u like or that works