Who knows how long ago the first needlefish was made, and who really cares?
They may have been made for a long, long time, but they were unknown on the striper coast until a few were innocently taken to Block Island from Cape Cod in the late seventies. Then all hell broke loose and the needlefish was reborn into modernity. Would you like to hear how it happened? My bassin’ crew summered over on the Cape as usual, and the locals up there kept telling us this one summer about these stupid-looking Boone’s needlefish that the guys fishing Buzzards Bay (across from the coast guard station) were starting to use on big bass. We had never seen a needlefish before, and they looked totally ridiculous when we first saw them. Looked just like pencils with hooks. But we bought a few anyway, before we go to travel back down the coast with the autumn line storms. They were Boone’s with brown backs (looked like a stick of sh*t) amd olive green/light blue back combo (which looked nice). You can never have enough lures you know, and you really don’t want to ever get caught in a
