This always brings up an interesting thought...sometimes just picking a bait or lure that you have never used and just forcing yourself to throw it for a few hours or days of fishing...just build confidence in it, or just to try it out.
There are just times when you are picking up some more hooks or weights or whatever and you just see a new soft plastic or lure and think, "Now that looks like it can catch fish!" you buy it and then rig it up 2 years later :P