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I think where I'm going with this is that ideally, I want to have the cg/cb be the same. That gives me a very dynamic instability and perfect balance. From there, I can tune the sink rate and attitude of the plug.
What got me thinking about this was some experiences I had last summer in two situations. One was on a beach north of here where I encountered large sand eels and bass feeding on them at night. The needle that worked best was quite neutral and rode very flat. Given that sand eels are weak swimmers and from what I've seen on film, tend to flutter and float and sink slowly to the bottom, this plug seemed to let me match that behavior the best.
The other was ocean front, rocky shoreline, little current, letting the plug suspend trying to imitate the short, hesitant movement of a bait fish as it swims through the water. In this situation, the retrieve that worked best was to put myself in the head of the bait fish. working it slowly and very erratically.
Although I don't quite follow you on the tin squid, somewhere in there, Numbskull, I think that you're right, there's a head shape that will add a natural swimming action to the mix. I'm going to have to play with that, too.
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