Take it out there and cast it into the rockiest, foulest piece of bass infested water you can find and start reeling. if you hook a fish and accidentily loose the plug and fish in the rocks, all that will happen is you'll get more confidence that you are doing something right.
Of course, the next day you'll walk into the shop and harrass Pete to order you another dozen of them right away. And thus begins the cirle of life for a surfisherman's
plug bag.