Thoughts on Sebile Away from Canal

[Back Beach]

One problem with the canal is the lemming like mentality of many who fish there. There's a lot of imitation going on there and if one person does it, many others follow. I can't slight the sebile stuff as I've seen fish come up for them when nothing else will work.

It becomes difficult to determine how good an individual lure really is when everyone is throwing them. If everyone suddenly started throwing white danny plugs you'd begin to see a disproportionate number of fish caught on white danny plugs and the lemmings would clean every last one off the shelves.

With the above said, I did quite well in the canal this year on metal lipped plugs, at times they out fished the sebile stuff. I don't own any sebile stuff as I try to fish my own lures, but can't argue against the sebiles being highly effective at certain times.

As an add on to my point, we used to fish rebel f-90's and musso needlefish exclusively off race point and never thought to throw anyting else. Not sure they were the best lures, but they were responsible for a disproportionately large amount of fish simply because they woked well at times and also because its all anyone threw.

One of my mentors always used to ask me, "What's the best plug, Mike?" He would pause a second and then answer, "Whatever is working best at the given time."