Fishing zoom super fluke Need help!!

[swampfoot]

First let me say the fluke is new for me.  I am fishing it weightless, texas rigged .  I really want to learn to fish this bait..  I may be doing too much with it,  twitching it too much ...  I have caught a few in the little time Ive fished it but those fish hit it as soon as cast went into water and  I saw them hit it..  I have felt me pull it from fish I didnt even know had it..  I am trying to watch my line for movement or an indication of a strike but man  this is hard to fish.  they are apparently hitting it on drop  and Im not feeling it...  I have  faith in the bait  and i have been making my self keep fishin it...The action is incredible..  Maybe I need to slow it down some   Help   what do you guys who fish this do?  Thanks

[SPEEDBEAD.]

After seeing PitchinKid use the fluke on Kentucky Lake this year, I have gone through about 5 packs of the things already.

I use it around shallow cover,grass mostly, down to a max depth of around 4 ft or so. I rip it, dart it, let it flutter and repeat.

I havent gone deeper with it as there are other techniques that are better suited.

[Ol� Dirty Basstard]

I think you have a great plan already my man. Tex-rigged, no weight with pauses between quick snaps. It's those pauses that gets them. The fluke mimics a bait fish. The pause mimics a dying baitfish. A dying baitfish is an easy meal.

[HitmanFO]

I've had the most success with the fluke by putting it on a Carolina-rig... I've had days when bass wouldn't touch it any other way.  It's my favorite C-rig lure.

[D4u2s0t]

if you're missing fish and you don't even feel them, you need to keep less slack in your line.

[CRANKSTER]

what size hooks do you guys use with the flukes?

[iceintheveins]

Few lures catch more bass for me than soft plastic jerkbaits like the fluke, bass assassin, or sluggo. Rig the 4" with a 1/0 EWG, the 5" with a 3/0 EWG, and the 7" with a 6/0 EWG.

The lighter of line you fish them on, the deeper they will sink, and you can fish a dying baitfish lure fairly deep that way. I usually fish them on 8 - 10 pound test unless the cover is super thick.

Throw them out and let them slowly sink to your desired depth. Then give them a sharp twitch with the rod tip, but it doesn't have to be too hard. Let them sink more, and vary the length of your pauses between jerks, and sometimes do two or three twitches instead of three. Get into the mindset of a dying minnow and you will bag the bass bigtime as long as the water is fairly clear.

[spotaholic]

This topic has been talked about a bunch so I would also search this website.

That being said there is always a weightless super fluke on deck. 14 pound gamma edge, I opt for a 5/0 offset round bend hook. You need a bigger hook to clear all the plastic. I use a 12" leader the same as main line and a med size bronze swivel. The thing that is so great about a fluke is it can be worked at every depth. With the sensitive gamma you feel the tick or if fishing it up toward the surface you see the fish take the bait. Just my thought on line I would go with at least 14lb floro or higher. You need a solid hookset and little stretch. Depth is controlled by how long you wait to start working the bait. Thinner line means less than solid hook sets and that means less fish.

As far as how you work it most people use a twitch, twitch , pause. I work it different depending on the mood of the fish. Ripping it or a slow steady retrieve works best for me.

[shootermcbob]

Spotaholic, why do you fish the fluke with a leader and a swivel???? does this help the action of the bait?

[spotaholic]

Stops all line twist which keeps bait swimming correct. Makes it much easy to swim a fluke which is my favorite way to fish the super fluke.

[shootermcbob]

Ok. Thanks.

[Redhed]

Stops all line twist which keeps bait swimming correct. Makes it much easy to swim a fluke which is my favorite way to fish the super fluke.

i fish all non weighted soft baits that way. swivel a foot or more up from the lure. it does help a lot with line twist,. plus it add some weight to help with casting distance. i use a smaller barrel swivel than a medium size. just something i noticed that works well for me.

[Crowcommander]

I like to take a small tube (like a tube that comes with WD-40),cut about 3/4" and slide it directly in front of the super fluke. I then slide my line thru,attach a small red swivel,snap ring and a small #6  red treble. One point goes in the back of the fluke(behind the hollow cavity where it starts to narrow down)The swivel lays in the cavity,the red tube shines thru the front of the fluke as red gills,the bait slides up the line when you hook up,flukes last much longer.With 2 more swivels you can fish 2 flukes. Works great!   

[jeb2]

Interesting setup, Crow. But why bother with the swivel and ring when they're not working anyway, being tucked up in side the fluke belly? why not just tie the line directly to the treble?

[Wayne P.]

I rig them with a Falcon Weighted Swimbait hook 5/0. I use a crochet needle to thread the line thru the bait head into the slit and then tie on the hook. Then I pull the hook eye into the head and Txpose the point. I use 17#-20# fluorocarbon line and fish it from the surface down to 20' with a jerk-pause-jerk retrieve.

[The Rooster]

A couple of weekends ago I had a fantastic time with the Zoom Super Fluke in green pumpkin color. I went through an entire bag in one afternoon and my brother in law went through 2 bags himself.

First....the set up. I fished it on a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook, texas rigged, weightless. Line was 12# Berkley Vanish fluorocarbon, wound onto a Shimano Citica E baitcast reel, and on a 6'6" medium power, fast tip Shimano Compre rod. With this setup I was able to cast unbelievable distances for just a weightless plastic. Somewhere around 100 feet would be a good guess. Using the fluorocarbon line helped the bait to sink a little better too I think than regular mono would.

Second....water conditions. Very stained, even murky, with maybe 1 or 1 1/2 feet of visibility. Not 2 feet by any means. It was a bright sunny day though with a little cloud cover, but this made not much difference at all since they hit it from about noon to after dark and only tapered off briefly for about 2 hours or so. Water was very brown in color, and even though we were using baits that were dark also, they apparently had no trouble seeing it.

We were fishing from right on the bank in very shallow water to out to water 12 feet deep or more. The fluke never made it below 3 or 4 feet in depth and the fish were just coming to it when in deeper water. Some fish hit right on the bank though.

As soon as it hit the water, if not engulfed, I would give it two sharp pops and then let it die. Wait about 2 - 3 seconds, then pop it again. Do this all the way back to the boat, or throughout the perceivable strike zone and then retrieve it quickly for another cast. I was sightfishing it mostly near the surface but when it was not visible I was just feeling it move, watching the line and leaving a little slack. If I saw it move and knew I didn't do it then I took in all slack and set the hook. Otherwise, sometimes I'd go to pop it once and there would just be a fish there. Mostly though I was able to see them hit it since they took it near the surface in the top 2 feet of water. There was one time I got one fish when I got a backlash and picked it out, reeled in the slack and a fish had taken it on the drop so I felt it and set the hook. It was the final fish of the day for me since it was too dark to see well anymore. Don't know how deep it had sank or how long the fish had it. I was in 3 feet of water with the bait at the time.

The "pop it twice and kill it" method worked all day until about 5 PM when they where still hitting it, but fewer and farther between at that time, and then they didn't hit it well enough to allow for a good hookset. They were still taking it but just half heartedly. We both started losing fish so we opted to quit for a while and eat. After a couple hours it was on again and they were back to hitting it hard again.

In all I landed 12 bass on it that day, lost 4 more, and my brother in law landed 30 and also lost a few himself. Yeah he outfished me good, but it's his home lake he fishes nearly every weekend while I've been there twice in 3 years. I'm just glad I got the 12 bass I did.

We went through 3 bags of these baits between us, and total landed 42 bass on just the super fluke lure alone. Others were caught on shakeyhead setups (including more for me too), but just the fluke alone accounted for those 42 fish.

This is my first experience using the super fluke other than just playing around for a few casts in the past and I had never caught any fish on them before this so this method of using them is all I have to offer now.