What's your fluke technique?

[Joshua Beaver]

I made a trade today which consisted of giving up a few of my soft plastics and an old lure I never used for a small rod and reel that is going to my stepson. Along wit this I received several flukes in white. In an attempt to actually catch something today, I was at a new pond this time, I decided to Texas rigged one with a red ewg 4/0 hook with a pegged weight. Not to sure of the weight but I think it was about 1/4 or 3/8 oz. As usual I didn't catch anything, so how do you usually fish a fluke. Weighted, weightless, Texas or wacky? What works for you? Also, pond was fairly clear with A LOT of grass.

[Fun4Me]

I fish them mostly Texas rigged weightless, and jerk it, let it fall, jerk it again, repeat. I have good luck in shallow water letting the bait get to the bottom then slowly reeling it in with light twitches. If a use a weight with them I usually go with a light split shot or something. I haven't yet tried it but I'm going to give it a go with a soft plastic fluke dragged along the bottom on a shakey head.

[Joshua Beaver]

6 minutes ago, Fun4Me said:

I fish them mostly Texas rigged weightless, and jerk it, let it fall, jerk it again, repeat. I have good luck in shallow water letting the bait get to the bottom then slowly reeling it in with light twitches. If a use a weight with them I usually go with a light split shot or something. I haven't yet tried it but I'm going to give it a go with a soft plastic fluke dragged along the bottom on a shakey head.

I'll have to try weightless next time I'm by the water. Thought about it today but I sacrificed distance over presentation.

[benbo]

I like dropshotting them. 

[Dorado]

I like using the white ice Zoom Super Fluke Jr as a trailer on a 3/8 oz white Chatterbait. Yo yo during spring and fall periods. You got to try it! 

[riverbasser]

Exclusively as a weightless soft jerk bait but I have pretty much tossed them to the side since using a caffeine shad

[Joshua Beaver]

Liking the tips so far. Definitely gonna have to try some of these rigging styles.

[d-camarena]

Dead stick it. Fish it sloooow or really fast

Like a jerkbait

[Hot Rod Johnson]

I fish a Double Fluke (Soft Jerkbait) Rig, a double rig works even better than a single one....The result may look like two baitfish swimming together, or like one fish chasing after or following another one. Please check the link..

 

https://www.thoughtco.com/tying-double-fluke-soft-jerkbait-rig-1311196

[Joshua Beaver]

31 minutes ago, Hot Rod Johnson said:

https://www.thoughtco.com/tying-double-fluke-soft-jerkbait-rig-1311196

Thanks for the link, I'll have to try the double fluke method and see if that works. Might be more productive around here.

[JustJames]

Fluke is good, you can fish it fast slow or dead sticking it, you can fish in shallow or deep, you can fish like top water between water Column or bottom contact.

For me I fish my Fluke just like others, sometime fast jerking on top of surface (mostly early morning or cold months) as the sun get higher I would try between water column, let Fluke sink and count 1 to whatever and start twitching. If I don't get any bite I would let them sink all the way and pop it like Senko.

For double Fluke rig, I would use Super Fluke Jr., but I have not fish that way for awhile too lazy to try two swivels.

For drop shot I use everything from Super Salt Fluke down to Tiny Fluke depend on what bite and how deep of water.

For trailer, normally I use Fluke Swimimg Jr for chatterbait.

Most of my Flukes are white pearl or sexy Shad color but I found that in my home lake I got more bites on Green Pumpkin.

I got a few types of Fluke style bait like big bite bait, Barkley Shad, havoc jerk Shad, caffeine shad even Z-man jerk Shad but alway come back to Fluke, can't beat the price, color and durable of Zoom super salt Fluke. I plan to try Yamamoto D-Shad soon since sometime I want it to sink to bottom faster. I always use 3/0 owner twist lock hook for Fluke no weight.

[TxHawgs]

Weightless, C-rig and the past 2 wks with 1/16th worm weight NOT pegged. My buddies pond has lots of milfoil that comes up several feet from the bottom in like 7, 8ft of water. Cast it out and when you feel it in the foil snap it lightly out of it and let it fall, which is when the normally hit it. They also hit it working it across the top like a jerkbait. The slip sinker allows the bait to fall straight down in the holes. The pegged weight will make it fall erratically or spiral usually causing it to snag in the weeds and keep it from falling straight down the hole. The slip sinker also gives the illusion of a bait fish (the fluke) chasing something. Also when I fish it like a C-rig it's not a traditional heavy weight and I use a worm weight with bobber stops on either side of the weight, allows you to fish it shallow in the wind without scaring the fish too bad.

[Bankbeater]

I like to fish it weightless, and let it sink down to the bottom.  I give it a couple of twitches, then a couple of jerks, then dead stick it again.

[LxVE Bassin]

I mostly fish them weightless and nose hooked with a 2/0 or 3/0 Gamakatsu finesse wide gap hook. Sometimes but not often I will t-rig them weightless with a 5/0 offset round bend hook. I have a lot of success with a twitch and pause retrieve. They can also be deadly as a top water bait.

[Dtrombly]

Weighltess on a worm hook and work it like a jerk bait. Or on the back of a chatterbait 

[Jelvas]

A good 70% of the time i´ll fish them on a split shot rig! The rest of the time i fish them t-rigged, weightless and, sometimes, i fish them on a jig head if i want to do a little bit of vertical jigging...

[Joshua Beaver]

Great tips. I'll definitely be using them sometime today when I finish working on the car and mowing.  God I hate adulthood. Lol.

[craww]

If the body of water allows nose hooking gives the best action IMO. Ive always just used a EWG hook, sometimes left a 1/16 bullet weight on, but my eyes have been opened after a buddy took it to me nose hooking a yamamoto D shad vs my EWG rig.

Its a little more erratic, possibly better in warmer water for more active fish- but thats just a thought.

[NYWayfarer]

So far I like them weightless. Letting sink to the bottom, twitch and retrieve a bit, repeat.

 

I have also tried them on a dropshot and Carolina rig. It is a very versatile bait.

[Big Swimbait]

If baitfish are active, try burning across the surface like it's fleeing. Then about every 10 cranks stop & let it fall like an injured/dying easy meal. Repeat back to the boat.

[tcbass]

Weightless Texas Rigged with an Owner Twistlock hook. Just a cast, jerk, retrieve. 

[Joshua Beaver]

2 hours ago, 1201vilbig said:

If baitfish are active, try burning across the surface like it's fleeing. Then about every 10 cranks stop & let it fall like an injured/dying easy meal. Repeat back to the boat.

 

2 hours ago, tcbass said:

Weightless Texas Rigged with an Owner Twistlock hook. Just a cast, jerk, retrieve. 

Did both of these styles minus the owner twistlock hook as I don't own any. Baitfish were active and I fished it slow, fast, in between. Nothing bites around here and I'm starting to wonder if these bass are either really smart, really stupid, or just to darn lazy.

[tcbass]

25 minutes ago, Joshua Beaver said:

 

Did both of these styles minus the owner twistlock hook as I don't own any. Baitfish were active and I fished it slow, fast, in between. Nothing bites around here and I'm starting to wonder if these bass are either really smart, really stupid, or just to darn lazy.

 

 

That's crazy. Rare day a fish won't bite one of those. Catch a lot of sunnies on it too.

[Joshua Beaver]

2 hours ago, tcbass said:

 

 

That's crazy. Rare day a fish won't bite one of those. Catch a lot of sunnies on it too.

I didn't even get a single strike. It is of course a golf course pond so it's not exactly secluded. But even so, if it's heavily fished, I should get strikes from, at least, the little guys and the pickerel. Even a lipless crank couldn't elicit a strike. I think the fish around here like live bait above everything else unless it's by lily pads and there's none in that pond.

[Burtonxj]

Love nose hooking them