As I am sure Capesams will attest, during the late forties and early fifties this was the go to plug of surfcasters fishing the daybreak and evening tides along the Capes sandy shores. When I was doing the chrterboat Mate thing in the mid seventies we always had them rigged on the spinning rods in Cape Cod Bay when squid used to invade Billingsgate Shoal at the end of June. There were two years in particular, that being 74/75 where on July 4th week there were tremendous blitzes of huge bass on Billingsgate where all the Chaterboats from Rock Harbor, Barnstable, and Wellfleet were doing nothing but drifting and casting Reverse Atoms. One memorable trip on the Seawitch had four Brothers from Palmer MA. landing 26 fish with four being better than fifty pounds all on Amber, Wine and Purple reverse Atoms. All the other fish were better than 25 pounds.
The reverse is still a great plug. I take a few to Middleground each June and they catch like crazy, especially the wine colored ones.
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