When using a needlefish it depends on what you're trying to represent. Don't know about you fellas, but "matching the hatch" is still a time tested approach to catchin' fish....but I still don't know why an all yellow plug is so good. Needles can represent just about anything in a fishes food chain, but a needle that imitates a sand eel is a terrific bait. Make some in a thinner than usual profile and throw it into water where there is known to be sand eels and hold on. The bay and shore beaches of the Cape provided more than a few great days of fish catching and they were not all rats. Problem was the big ones always "got away"...we were using Boone needles and the hooks were just to weak and larger hooks seemed to kill their effectiveness.
Black or "Blurple" needles at night shopuld be a part of every plug bag. |