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The question of skins "Blue side" or "Natural side" has been going on since before I was a kid and that is over fifty years ago!
It all depends on what you are trying to make your bait look like.
The Atom skin plug rigged blue side usually replicates a Herring/Pogie and thus is blue side and only about a three inch beyond the plug length. It casts well and does not usually tangle the hooks
If you are trolling in deep waters, tide rips etc then the natural side out with a full 2 foot or longer skin is used. Some rig these on the skinny Danny, or what ever turns you on. Because of the length of this lure it cannot be cast well but if used trolling needs to use wire in 50 pound test or better. To troll this rig on light tackle is a total waste of lure, and all tackle as few fish will be landed on light tackle with the big skin plug. You don't find too many small fish willing to grab a two or three foot eel!
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