Summer Fluke Tactics ?

[ChrisD46]

Most Fluke users understand that the Fall and Spring are a premium time to fish a pearl colored Fluke as the shad move shallow  - but how many regularly use a Fluke in the Summer and what tactics , locations , colors , etc. work for you ?

[Preytorien]

I use them almost all year long. Summer I find some of the most productive times I use them are at the very first light of dawn, and the last light of dusk. Rig them weightless and weedless and twitch along just under the surface. Fishes more like a topwater, but I've had some great nights like that. 

[Primus]

I like using a Strike King Caffeine Shad and fishing it very fast with constant twitches and even swimming it in shallow grass , gets violent strikes . I fish this with braided line . 

[Senko lover]

I use them all year long. In summer, I fish them around cover. They are an awesome cover bait, almost 100% weedless, and you can put them in the thickest stuff. Sometimes I'll put a split shot on the line a few inches down to get it deeper. 

[Snakehead Whisperer]

I C-Rig them and fish them almost year round. 

[Preytorien]

I like using a Strike King Caffeine Shad and fishing it very fast with constant twitches and even swimming it in shallow grass , gets violent strikes . I fish this with braided line . 

 

For those that haven't used them, the Caffeine Shads are the best flukes you can use. Their action is unequaled. Do yourself a favor and get a pack of the pearl white ones and watch the fish kill em'

[the reel ess]

They work well in a local reservoir 3/4 f the year. Now that it's hot, I just twitch and let them fall down into the grass, repeat. They don't seem to catch as many big boys as other tactics, but they work.

[Glenn]

Here ya go! 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/double-fluke-rig.html

[ChrisD46]

I appreciate the summer tips - so far I have only used the Zoom Super Flukes and recently picked up a couple of packs of Big Bite Flukes in shad looking colors ... I will have to check out the Strike King Caffeine Shads as I have not tried them yet . For what it's worth , I use a 7' M fast action rod , 30 series Quantum spinning reel with #20lb. Power Pro attached to a small Spro barrel swivel then run about 3' of #8lb. FC line to a red 4/0 Gammy EWG hook . In the future I may drop down to #15lb. braid (maybe even drop down to a 3/0 EWG hook) however throwing Flukes along grass edges , laydowns ,stick ups , docks ,  etc. I have a touch more confidence in the #20lb. braid size should a bass wrap me up or take me "off roading" through the spinach !

[*Hank]

Topwater.

[HoosierHawgs]

Has anybody tried Havoc "The Jerk"?

[Jrob78]

The Caffeine Shad is great and I do fish it but it sinks a lot faster than a Super Fluke.   

 

I fish Fluke style baits a lot in the summer, usually around the edges of grass or pads.   I prefer the 5" Bass Assassin for this type of fishing.

[MickD]

Super flukes with about 2 feet of leader off the braid to a big (about 1 1/4 inch) barrel swivel (no need for ball bearing) then about 18-24 inches of leader to a super fluke on a #4 EWG hook.  Let it sink, but often the strike will be on the fall.  When  on the bottom, vary from very slow to agressive twitching to find what they want.  Effective all year.  It is quite weedless rigged like this.  I favor white, baby bass, and Arkansas shad.

 

I know other brands work OK, but like the belly slit on the super flukes, helps me get the hook in right.

[BASSPATROL247]

Use them year round..in summer i like a double fluke rig fished fast and sporatic around rocks or any other cover.. always have a weightless fluke on a spinning rod 8lb test at all times!!

[Owenalex]

I fish them in the evenings around reeds for smallmouth