Whats your favorite and most productive way of fishing Flukes?
Whats your favorite and most productive way of fishing Flukes?
Weightless texas rigged with an EWG 3/0 hook is the only way I fish them and it's a deadly presentation. Best colors are Pearl white, Junebug and Watermelon red.
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Jerry Larsen Jr.
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The way I have fished the Zoom Super Fluke most often for the past 20 + years, is a 3/0 EWG hook with a swivel about 10-12" above that to prevent line twist, and no weight. Rig the bait Tex-sposed and work it in a walk the dog motion under water with a few short twitches and then stop, and allow it to fall just out of sight, then 4 or 5 more twitches. I skip it under docks, overhangs etc and it is deadly.
In open water areas, I will use a 3 way swivel and run a line off the side to make the same rig for 2 flukes, and it creates the illusion of a school of shad.
Often, many anglers prefer a 4/0 or 5/0 EWG hook for those rigs, but I don;t like the added weight which creates a nose down fall etc. All personal preference
In deep water areas, I fish the smaller Fluke on a Fishhead Spin.
In all situations, I fish pearl white color.
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I fish it two different ways depending on depth and time of year.
In the winter, I will only fish it weightless. But, when the water is a little warmer, I will fish it weightless or with a weighted hook, depending on depth, if the fish want something moving a little faster, if there's alot of cover, if it's more open water with sparse cover, it just depends. I usually try both.
I almost always use a pearl white. I also will sometimes dip in chartruese. I also use the albino shad color, which has a little blue on the back.
I hear glimmer blue and smokin shad are also really good, but I havent tried them.
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Chad Teel
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I love the double fluke rig, I use two swivels one above the other rather that a three way. I like to use two different color flukes on the rig, one bright color(think bubblegum) and one subtle color like scatter shad. If they start hitting one more that the other change both to the same color. I also like the little fluke on a C-rig.
I like the watermelon color rigged on 5/0 worm hook weightless. I spend more time letting it fall then twitching and they always hit it on the pause or the fall.
Weightless......watermelon red/ fire tail...or..albino shad.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 96basscat »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I love the double fluke rig, I use two swivels one above the other rather that a three way. I like to use two different color flukes on the rig, one bright color(think bubblegum) and one subtle color like scatter shad. If they start hitting one more that the other change both to the same color. I also like the little fluke on a C-rig.</TD></TR></TABLE>hey david, can you explain more in (great detail) about this double rig, inches apart & so on?
On the main line I have about a foot to 15 inches from the swivel to the hook. For the upper fluke I like the leader for it to be about 5 or 6 inches shorter that the main line. When they are in the water one dances about 4-5 inches in front of the other and with two swivels they NEVER tangle. This rig is absolutely deadly around schoolers.
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