This is also my first year fishing with pencils, got a couple of salty's and some from sol, so many people have good things to say about them, but so far I haven't had any luck with them. I just don't get the concept for some reason and I don't think I'm working them right. A guy told me to just reel them in slow and steady and let them make a wake on the surface, but I don't fish alot of spots where the water is that calm. Are needles useful in rougher and/or fast moving water? Is there a different way to fish them other then that slow retrieve? As for the fathead, awesome, the thing casts a mile and cathes fish like mad. It's running a close second as my new favorite lure this season, just behind the ronz soft baits. The ronz were catching fish this weekend when nothing else would, my buddy was even using sluggos of the same size and color and getting nothing. I of course offered him a ronz to use, at a very reasonable rate.
