NittyGrittyBoy

@Hook2Jaw Reason called you out on your info source, and he comes on here with that and you just believe him? For all we know Santa's elves could have fed him that garbage! Your trolling skills are slacking sir... @reason and about that dang bridge you was selling? Must've slid off the flat Earth huh

@pauldconyers I use them weightless in summer, spring, fall. In winter when it's colder here in the south I'll dropshot them or keel weighted hook. But flukes have a place in my boat year round

Once you get rust in a box it's hard to get rid of it unless you pull all tackle out clean box and lures and put them back.

Belly down, it gives it the action zoom designed it to have. You can rig it multiple ways and experiment with different retrieves, but since your just starting out on using them, learn the basics first, then try experimenting with different setups! Hope you have a blast fishing them, I sure do!

BTW, first time ever fishing a senko. . . I think I'm hooked

Water temp was 65-66, slight wind, air temp was 50ish I tried everything. Only bite I could get was watermelon red senko, weightless. Caught 5 dinks. Idk what was up. Usually a really good pond, and man I was hoping for a dropshot bite today

And I have BERKELEY SCENT!! I bought the secret scent!!!!! Score for me.

I'll be dropshotting nose hooked flukes in the morning around stumps at a private pond, I have a fresh bag of flukes I put several squirts in so we'll see what happens!

I bought some Berkeley power bait bass attractant. Use to back in the day my dad always had some scent he squirted in his worm bags don't know that it made a difference but we always caught fish! Anybody use any, and what do you use?

Give it time, hopefully something will fill the void. Maybe invest a little higher quality baits for the time being. Don't snag any off and your gold! Strike king squarebills, and my personal favorite, smithwick rogues!

I use a mh/f 6'6 dobyns for my fluke fishing 6'6 mh duckett for jerkbait fishing I'm partial to a 6'6

I would personally ditch that 7'10" and just carry a one baitcast outfit and one spinning outfit. You can only fish one at a time, and tying on a different lure should only take a min or so. To much clutter in already cramped space will make fishing miserable for you. Always remember, less is more.

I'm interested in the bridge, any pictures? Price?

Bet that was a rod bender! My best bowfin was 14.6, one pound shy of state record. Definitely was a heck of a fight.

Well I'm a creature of habit, zoom flukes work for me, so I haven't changed. But if there's a better bait that works better I'm all for trying it. 6 out of 10 in a pack of zoom flukes works like there suppose to, other 4 usually are to erratic and just twist up. I save those for dropshotting, but I'd rather all my baits work out of the pack not 6/10.

Springtime off the St. John's in Palatka, Fla we catch absolute slabs. 2lb average all on artificials. I like dropshotting shallows with Bobby Garland straight tail shads Another crappie (specks) guy here!

@TOXIC is the Yamamoto Dshad a huge improvement over typical zoom super salty flukes? I absolutely enjoy fluke fishing and I am willing to Branch out and try different flukes. I want to fish with the best.

They seem like a painted up mudfish to me. Fight hard, wreck lures, and overall nuisance. They might be here to stay doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.

Me and my fishing partner do that quite frequently. I fish one color he fishes a different color and whichever works best we both swap too. Rods and reels aren't identical like in your theory but idea is the same. Fishing new Waters I really want that second person in the boat so we can try different things and really zero in on what the bass want that day, alot quicker than one person trying to figure them out.

Favorite fluke video. Most people fish a fluke too fast. The more patience the better, sometimes almost like deadsticking one works best. And even throwing to the same spot multiple times! Thanks for sharing that video, most people won't look it up on YouTube

Fluke for top(weightless) Suspending jerk bait for mid Dropshot for bottom(nose hooked fluke) My plan of attack for fall ponds. Those would be my top 3 approaches for your ponds

Pm me an address too please

Nice pink rod. Did it come with matching pink floaties? Jk, nice red! Artificials or shrimp?

I have a hard time hooking bass on top with a hollow body frog, yeah let's put it under water and see how it does.. I see the theory of it but there are better rigs than a c-rig, and better baits than dragging a hollow body frog. Like bluebasser86 said maybe a toad, but not a hollow body frog for sure. Just my thoughts

Zoom super salty fluke, baby bass color and sprayed grass. I go through packs of these, $2.50 for a pack of 10 at my local Wally world. Absolute confidence bait I throw, and throw all the time, weightless on 3/0 ewg gammy