Needle fish nose loop

[steelhead]

Vertical or horizontal? Why? I've noticed them both ways. I've always done mine vertical. Then I began thinking about how you tune other plugs and the nose loop is horizontal. So now I'm thinkng, maybe horizontal so that I can tune the action a bit.

[Flaptail]

Like sex, it's what ever turns you on.

[Tagger]

Either way .. I'm vertical...i see most vertical ..got a nice Beachmaster needle yesterday horizontal,,, Bob Hahn vertical .. don't matter

[RI Popper]

90% of us build them verticle.

[Nebe]

i was told if you want the action to be best in a side to side motion, you do them horizontal like a metal lip.. (some like to walk the dog with needles) if you want them to be better at going up and down, go verticle.. persoanly i think thats a load of ballony and do them all verticle.

[Montaukmaniac]

I had learned a while back that if the needle is a sinker guys would make the eye horizontal and bend the eye up or down to make it run higher or lower like a metal lip. I tried it and it works...go figure