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Hogy Charter Grade 5 in 2 oz Stubby Needle

$23.95
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The increased popularity of Needlefish the last several seasons has been well noted. For custom lure builders, designing and building needlefish are certainly challenging, but wood seems to provide more options. Hogy has developed a plastic needlefish, a bit more of a rare beast these days. The Charter Grade Needlefish have that classic profile. With a balanced weight, they cast and swim as you’d expect from a needlefish. Not a lot of wiggle, but that doesn’t stop them from getting thumped!

The Perfect Needlefish is the most subtle hardbait in the Hogy system. Where poppers shout, walkers whisper, and swimmers wobble, the Needlefish barely moves at all. A slow, predictable glide with just enough tail shimmy to look alive. That restraint is the entire point. When fish are pressured, spooked, feeding on slender bait in dead-calm water, or hunting by feel at night, the Needlefish is the plug that matches their mood. It shares the same internal ballast system as the Surface Eraser — belly always down, turns flat on the cast, precision balance from nose to tail. Two sizes cover every sand eel and spearing scenario from estuaries to the open surf.

Features:

  • Internal Ballast System: Same architecture as the Surface Eraser. Belly stays down, turns flat in flight, and maintains orientation on every retrieve speed. This system gives the Needlefish its signature controlled tail-wag and clean shimmy on the drop — the subtle motion that separates it from dead-stick needle designs.

  • Through-Wire Construction: Full through-wire from nose to tail. Night fishing for large stripers around boulders and in heavy surf demands hardware that doesn’t fail. The Needlefish is built for the biggest fish in the worst conditions.

  • Hook (1) Platform: Ships standard with the Hogy Hook (1) configuration: single VMC 4X belly treble plus a hand-tied genuine bucktail flag on stainless steel in the tail. Inspired by the MA DMF study and ASGA’s Local Singles Program, this setup reduces catch-and-release mortality by nearly 50% while the flag adds a tail-end shimmy that enhances the Needlefish’s already-subtle swimming action. The flag was made for this plug.

  • Translucent Finish: The same light-refracting body shared across the Hogy translucent plug family. In clear, calm water — the Needlefish’s primary domain — this finish is the difference between a lure that gets inspected and rejected and one that gets eaten.

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The increased popularity of Needlefish the last several seasons has been well noted. For custom lure builders, designing and building needlefish are certainly challenging, but wood seems to provide more options. Hogy has developed a plastic needlefish, a bit more of a rare beast these days. The Charter Grade Needlefish have that classic profile. With a balanced weight, they cast and swim as you’d expect from a needlefish. Not a lot of wiggle, but that doesn’t stop them from getting thumped!

The Perfect Needlefish is the most subtle hardbait in the Hogy system. Where poppers shout, walkers whisper, and swimmers wobble, the Needlefish barely moves at all. A slow, predictable glide with just enough tail shimmy to look alive. That restraint is the entire point. When fish are pressured, spooked, feeding on slender bait in dead-calm water, or hunting by feel at night, the Needlefish is the plug that matches their mood. It shares the same internal ballast system as the Surface Eraser — belly always down, turns flat on the cast, precision balance from nose to tail. Two sizes cover every sand eel and spearing scenario from estuaries to the open surf.

Features:

  • Internal Ballast System: Same architecture as the Surface Eraser. Belly stays down, turns flat in flight, and maintains orientation on every retrieve speed. This system gives the Needlefish its signature controlled tail-wag and clean shimmy on the drop — the subtle motion that separates it from dead-stick needle designs.

  • Through-Wire Construction: Full through-wire from nose to tail. Night fishing for large stripers around boulders and in heavy surf demands hardware that doesn’t fail. The Needlefish is built for the biggest fish in the worst conditions.

  • Hook (1) Platform: Ships standard with the Hogy Hook (1) configuration: single VMC 4X belly treble plus a hand-tied genuine bucktail flag on stainless steel in the tail. Inspired by the MA DMF study and ASGA’s Local Singles Program, this setup reduces catch-and-release mortality by nearly 50% while the flag adds a tail-end shimmy that enhances the Needlefish’s already-subtle swimming action. The flag was made for this plug.

  • Translucent Finish: The same light-refracting body shared across the Hogy translucent plug family. In clear, calm water — the Needlefish’s primary domain — this finish is the difference between a lure that gets inspected and rejected and one that gets eaten.