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I'm far from a guru on needles (or anything else) but I have had some pretty good success with them the last few years in areas that have a nice sweep or cross current. I prefer just casting them out and letting them drift along with the current with either a veeerrry slow retrieve or no retrieve. I like having a few different sizes so I can experiment until I find the one that stays near bottom while drifting in the current without hanging up on a painfully slow retrieve. Sometimes the occasional twitch will trigger a strike but a lot of times you just need to be patient and realize that the plug drifting in the current is a very natural presentation and one that fish will hit. I’ve never had much success with them in real calm waters that don’t feature some kind of a cross current or retrieving them up against a current. Needles are one plug where I think that adding a scent can help.
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