Zoom Super Fluke

[Autiger1291]

I recently picked up some of these, but I can't seem to get into a good rythym. How do you guys fish them?

[56 crestliner]

I fish them on a 3/0 EWG hook weightless texposed. I have been texposing them lately becouse i have been having trouble getting a solid hookset. But i cast them upstream and let them drift down keeping contact with it and twitching it every so often.

[captaininsaneo]

I fish them extremely slow.  Cast past cover and let it fall all the way down... this might take a while.  If you dont get a strike drag or hop the lure with your rod about 1 1/2 or 2 ft, it will dart up and then fall very slowly again.  If youve got plenty of patience its a great technique.  

[Marty]

Agree with the above, but I use a 4/0 extra wide gap. I also love to fish them in weed beds, retrieving them over, around and through the weeds, letting them sink into holes in the weeds and at the edges.

[RoLo]

I doubt that rhythm has much to do with success, because dying minnows are quite spastic.

The Zoom Fluke is the perfect lure for bridging the gap between a topwater lure and mid-water lure.

I'd say that the "pause" is the most important phase, because without ample pause the fluke won't sink into the strike zone.

Roger

[Cephkiller]

I highly recommend fluorocarbon for flukes.  You can feel the bait much better which allows you to walk the dog under water with them.  I assume that was what was meant by "rythym"?

[bassnleo]

I use 20 lb braid and a 4/0 Gammy superline hook all on a 7 foot medium heavy spining rod. Plenty of backbone, no strech in line, etc..

I must fish the fluke differently than alot of people, I RARELY let it pause. I work it across the surface as fast as I can turn the reel handle making the bait dart and jump. On a very few occasions I will impart short pauses in the bait and only if the fish are swiping at the bait and not hooking up.

90% of the time I fish this bait in clear water.

It's a deadly technique for smallmouth.

[rocknfish9001]

The biggest secret to working a fluke is slack in your line. This is one of the very few baits where it helps you. In order to get a killer side to side action, you have to snap your rod to get all of the slack out of the line, and let off as soon as you feel the bait. The rod action looks fairly violent if you want a really good darting action, but you move the bait very little. Hope you catch what im saying...

[FatBoy]

Sometimes I work a super fluke fast like bassnleo says.  But most of the time the bass want it a little slower than that.  Mix it up to see what they want on a given day.  When I first started fishing these I was jerking way too hard (insert joke here).  I get a lot better results with more subtle twitches of the rod tip.  You can twitch it slow with long pauses or you can twitch it fast to keep it up near the surface.  But the key is to twitch not jerk (usually).  

[bassnleo]

"Insert joke here" LOL

Nope, better leave that one alone  :

[jomatty]

i think the flukes can be fished a number of ways.  probally my fav is an unerwater walking action which may be what another poster was refering to as rhythm.  rolo makes a good point about dying minnows not being rhythmic but my most succesful walking action for surface or subsurface is very rhythmic.  

i use either a 4/0 or 5/0 hook for this and prefer the owner wide gap plus as they are slightly heavier than most of the other high quality hooks.  this helps me keep them down.  i spend more time getting a fluke rigger straight than just about any other bait. having it rigged perfectly straight really helps it "walk"

[Bankbeater]

I usually dead-stick them, with slight twitches until I get it away from the strike zone.  Once in a while I will work them like a plastic worm across the bottom.

[The Unabasser]

I love using the Double Fluke Rig that was wrote about here last year ...maybe a quick search will find it

Not only do they look awesome in the water swimming from side to side when twitched they catch a ton of fish...the Pickeral love em too...after they get worn on the nose some I use a dab of super glue and throw em right back in and fish them some more

[timistall]

I'm different, I rig my super flukes upside down(barb is inside the flap) It seems to fall more natural. Fished slow with a slight twitch. Hits are always on the fall.

[roadwarrior]

I fish 4" & 6" Slug-Go, but the action is about the same. What I am trying to do is imitate a feeding minnow. With my ponds infested with spirogyra (snot grass), this is currently my biggest producing lure. I fish a 3/0 Gamakatsu or X-Point Offset Worm Hook on the 4" bait, 4/0 on the 6".

[Lard_Bass]

No luck on the search.  Can someone explain the Double Fluke Rig.  Thanks.

[Red]

gave one of these a try last night, i have a pack and havent used them....i used a 3/0 gamakatsu EWG t-rigged it weightless...threw it out and worked it real fast along surface about half way in, then i would let it "die" and slow twitch it the rest of the way....cought 2 bass on it, both hits were on the fall

Cliff

[=Matt 5.0=]

I think it's hard to fish a fluke the wrong way, just let the fish tell you what they want. One day we fished em fast and all we caught were pickerel. The next day I went out and slowed it down and caught two bass. It all depends...

[Guest avid]

Lotsa good info here.

Matt 5.0 summed it up pretty well.  Just put it in the water and it will catch fish.

It was designed to be fished slowly with a twitch twitch pause, to let it flutter down,  but as you see it works in a varitey of ways.  If there is a "secret" that I'm aware of, it's making sure you don't put too much weight in the nose.  It's most effective when it maintains a horizontal posture.

Don't forget wacky riggin.  It can be a killer.

And my current favorite...  After seeing part of the informercial on the banjo minnow, I decided to try using an octopus hook through the nose.  Chalk up another way to successfully fish this highly productive, versatile lure.

[Red]

i used a 3/0 gamakatsu EWG hook and my fluke DEFINETLY was sinking nose down....should i use a smaller hook or something to keep it sinking more horizontal?  it did have plenty of action while being twitched but when sinking it was for sure nose first...and it actually sunk alot faster than i had expected it to

Cliff

[=Matt 5.0=]

Lotsa good info here.

Don't forget wacky riggin. It can be a killer.

Awesome! I'll have to try it this weekend. If they'll ever stop biting on the trick sticks! Thanx for th heads up Avid!  

[bubbler]

skip it let sink to bottom twich back to boat remove fish. ;D ;D ;D

i get them every time on that lure

[bassman00012]

I use a Lazer Sharp wide gap hook 3/0 and work the lure very quickly under the surface. If the bite is slow, I will let it sink into places I think a fish will be.

[Hot Rod]

I like to fish the super fluke fairly fast with a "walk the dog" action and ocationally pause it.   On a 7' medium baitcaster with 12 lbs floro.

If the bite is really tough, I down size to a Fluke on a spinning rod and 8 lbs Magnathin and fish it as slow as I can stand to fish it.

[Jeff H]

I don't use the Super Fluke, but I fish the 4" Fluke and 4" Fin S Fish a LOT in clear shallow areas.  I have rigged them every which way but wacky including with a 1/16 oz bullet and taken fish on all of them.  Hook is always a 2/0 Gamakatsu EWG rigged Texposed.  Tomorrow I'm going to test with Red EWG hooks and see how they like that.  We are going to shift to summer patterns really soon up here and I'll try them on a C-rig for smallies too.  Another favorite way to fish them is with a 1/16 or 3/32 oz Gopher mushroom head on deep rockpiles and humps.  My absolute best color is Fin S Fish in rainbow trout.