nose hooking flukes

[lavbasser]

What hook and size for nose-hooking flukes and super flukes? Thanks.

Lou

[Raul]

I use a 2/0, 3/0 Owner Mutu Light Hook

[MichBassMan]

I only nose hook em' when drop shotting. I use a #1 gami drop shot hook.

[5bass]

I use the 2/0 Gamakatsu Weedless Wide Gap Finesse hook. It gives the bait a real erratic action when jerked and twitched at a fast rate and you can pull it thru some nasty stuff.

[lavbasser]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that this is not for dropshotting. A guy I know, who is a great fluke fisherman, told me that he nose hooks his flukes when he can. This is for open water or sparse cover. He didn't want to give up the actual hooks he used.

I have some of Gammie Finesse Wide Gaps. I was going to use them or buy some Mosquito hooks in the same sizes, 1/0, 2/0. Fivebass, the weedless ones would be a good idea too. Thank you all for replying.

[5bass]

Fivebass, the weedless ones would be a good idea too.

The weedless finesse hooks work great when you're skipping under overhanging bushes/trees and when you want to fish around laydowns. You have to hook them right at the end of the nose. If you hook it too far back it kills the action and you will get more line twist. If line twist becomes a problem, add the smallest barrel swivel you can find about a foot up the line.

[cBooms@SML]

for some reason, when i fish the fluke as a jerk bait, it seems to curve to one side no matter if the hook is straight and is rigged weightless t-rig or nose hook.

[lavbasser]

cBooms, make sure the bait is not bent.   

[Indiana Bass1]

I have the same problem with the fluke wanting to go to one side. Yes the bait has a slight bend to it but heck the whole pack does.

[lavbasser]

I find many of them like that as well. I straighten them out in hot water, like you would with a soft swimbaits. This worked but I am not a fluke aficionado. Maybe one of the local experts here can chime in. Also, I put all my true running flukes in a different bag so I don't have to waste time sorting through them on the water.

[matstone7]

Nose hooking flukes and drifting them on the river for smallmouth bass is the preferred method for many of the smallie anglers in my area. I found that a 1/0 was fine for this application.