plugs like yozuri mag darters only need to be cast out there and anyone can catch a fish on it. Most poppers fall in this catagory also but at times pencils and spooks require a certain amount of skill.
As far as needing to add some skill, it depends on the condition and location you are plugging. Some plugs like danny's will catch better the way one fisherman retrieves it over the way another does believe it or not. Needles can fall in both catagories.
You usually have to figure out how the fish want it, unless it's a blitz and they bite any moving object.
Similar is how a jig bounces along the bottom of the canal, at most times a big pop off the bottom and they hit it on the drop works, but other times just drifting along they suck it in. sometimes they eat anything in front of them, and it takes no skill other than holding bottom.
Of course plugging from a boat is the easiest of all
