More Musso dartahs, needles, and a troller

[Hookset]

Man, these look great! Tell me more about the needle, i have been playing around with them. I have a few 6 1/4 superstrike imitations made out of Poplar with 2 weights. They seem to have a slow even sink, maybe with a little nose dive. I just picked up some maple and plan to see if I can get a faster sink and maybe do a better job of hiding the weights. It is tough since the needle is so skinny, the weight tends to stick out and I am not very good at drilling through the weight, so I try to keep it below center...

[blondterror]

Hi Hookset


I bought a used Lee lead pot last year from a Rhody guy who moved up to the Albany area a few years ago. This allows me to drill any diameter hole and fill it with lead and then fair it in with bondo as the surface filler.

For the needles I follow the same weighting as the plastic superstrike needles. Take a good look at the low wt placement behind the belly hook on a semi clear SS needle. I try and achieve the exact same wt scheme by drilling below midline with 2 or 3 holes (3 with 8.5" wadds and 2 with the 6 1/4 and 7 1/4) The forward wt cavity has a wider diameter.

Josh C has used a few of my needles this past year and caught some nice fish up to ~30lbs and lost a bigger fish due to hook straightening... damn.


I do not use any tail weights only belly weighting.