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Choopy Swimming Needlefish
What's a swimming needlefish you ask? Check out the
Choopy Needlefish video!
Now available in 5 1/4" and 7" sizes!
(5/8oz and 1 1/2oz respectively)

(Shown above - black-n-purple, yellow/pearl, really-eely not shown: black w/ red eye, pearl/pink
sides, parrot, and schoolbus) If you are wondering what a swimming needlefish looks like,
Choopy and I put together a video -
Choopy Swimming Needlefish video - that's
what they look like on a steady retrieve, no rod tip action at all - these needlefish actually swim! Needles with a swimming wiggle...
and in that 3/4oz - 1 1/2oz range that's a wonderful middle of the line weight between the 3/8oz minnows and 2oz bottles that are the ends of
the spectrum for most folks. Wired through with stainless, realistic eyes and the colors came out better than I envisioned
when he asked me what colors I wanted. The belly hooks are 4X VMC - but he cut each one by hand and crimped them on the swivel - a less he got,
no doubt, from my personal plug building master, Mike Fixter The rear hooks
on the 1 1/2oz size are bucktailed siwash hooks - not just a plain white tail...tails that match the plugs! The smaller size have a matching bucktail
on the back, but with the hook cut at the bend so just the bucktailed shank remains - exactly like all the Hahn plugs of old were made...
except these bucktails match the plug color :-) All are nicely tied...Choopy also ties flies and it shows in his siwash tails. A solid epoxy finish
to keep them in fishin' condition. I gotta say, for somebody so angry, he makes solid, functional and fish catchin' plugs - I think he gets
that from Oznavad ![[Wink]](http://www.stripersonline.com/ubb547/wink.gif)
TimS |