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Not so much looking for the needle history in this post, just what each of us used before we started using needles. Although, I am a bit of a needle history buff myself with a good portion of my plug collection consisting of needlefish.
Anyway, I used a couple different plugs before I got into the use of needles. For the areas I where I now fish shallow needles, I used to fish bombers or dannys. Some times I would throw a rebel here and there, but mostly bombers. For the deeper water, I would toss darters mostly. As my use of needles has increaded, so has the range of spots I fished increased. They seemed to both develope at the same time, and having a plug that can cover all the depths of the water became beneficial to me. Also, I have seen a change in the dominant bait where I fish. Where I used to see lots of large baitfish like herring and adult bunker, I now see peanut bunker, silversides, or bay anchovies. No longer will an Atom 40 or large danny mimic the primary forage.
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