Eel skin creation

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I been racking my peanut brain for the past two days about how to effectively reach the fish this weekend with this Northeast blow they are predicting.
Seems how I can probaly pee about as far as I could throw an eel into the wind, I need an alternative. I have considered throwing a tin squid/ eel skin combo, but that would require me finding them and getting to a store before they close tonight.
So, I was thunkin' (hear the gears grinding) that if I have used eel skins over bottle swimmers before, how would they work if I were to slip an eel skin over a super strike needle fish and somehow lash it to it? Would this be an effective method of delivery? Would I need to somehow cut a groove into the hard plastic body with maybe a dremel tool to make a lashing channel? What would I do about the rear hook? Put it on a piece of wire so it is hanging out the back or cut it through like the front hook? Or maybe no rear hook at all, but wouldn't that affect the action/ weight/ castablitly of the needle fish itself?

Any thoughts or criticism be grealty appreciated since I am down to about 4 hours to departing time.

thanks ya'll