Biggest disappointment of 2006?

[JB]

After reading rebs post I thought I'd reverse the idea and see what was the biggest disappointment for fellow anglers this past years...Ideas like going to that big lake you've always heard about, but when you fished it a keeper was hard to come by...Or...more like what comes to mind for me is the dif. lures that everyone brags about, yet when I try it, its mediocre at best...
The Rapala X-Rap sure gets lots of attention here, so I go out and get 3 dif colors that always worked well in jerkbaits like the rogue, or stick baits..
Yet the more I threw them this spring the smaller the fish got! After talking to some members that were used to the X-rap, they told me to slow it down and pause it longer, and that did help somewhat..
But, after hooking up with a half dozen new lures(to me) that worked like a charm, the xrap has been the only disappointment so far. And thats not to mean it wont work great for me later down the road, but after ya purchase a lure you've been looking for a long time, its a let down when that lunker doesn't hit it, and yes, I know there's no "magic lure" out there.
So...anyone else like to share some letdowns for the past year, after having high expectations beforehand?