Flutter spoon for smallmouth

[TetraFish'n]

I’ve never fished a flutter spoon, for smallmouth or otherwise, but I’m thinking about trying it in a highland reservoir that is heavily populated with Kokanee. 

 

I found a few articles detailing guys fishing this way. Just thought I would see if others might share their experience, areas they targeted, and setup they used. 

 

I have a 7’1” mh fast with 15 pound fluorocarbon that I was thinking about casting it with. The Kokanee in the reservoir are around 7 inches, so I was going to pick up a handful of spoons about that size or a little bigger.

 

There’s been multiple times running down the reservoir I’ll see Kokanee jumping out of the water. I’ve never considered it before, but I’m guessing that there are possibly bass suspended by the bait balls and are feeding on them. It’s usually in very deep water, pretty far from the bank. And I thought, if nothing else, it’ll just fun to explore a new technique. 

 

Thanks

[Dwight Hottle]

Absolutely it’s worth a try. Also consider a Kokanee colored jerk bait like lc pointer 127 or 128.

[casts_by_fly]

I'd also have a decent sized pencil popper tied on for those just in case situations too.

 

Interested to hear how it goes.  I've also never fished a flutter spoon.  But plenty of GL smallies get caught on big spoons trolled for walleye and salmon.

[Steveo-1969]

I’ve never personally done it but I’ve seen multiple segments on In-Fisherman with Doug Stange catching smallmouth on flutter spoons.

[Kirtley Howe]

I fish a version of a flutter spoon. I have a number of trolling spoons that are used in trout and salmon fishing. Check out Sutton Spoons to see the type I am talking about. They a very thin metal that weight almost nothing...maybe 1/16 to 1/18th of an oz. They are anything but aerodynamic, which makes them almost impossible to cast by themselves. What I do is to put a few split shot anywhere from 4 to 12 inches up the line from the spoon. The farther away from the spoon, the bigger the flutter, but also the more apt you are to having the spoon catch on the line above the sinkers when casting. How many/size of the split shot depends on how much wind I am casting into, and how fast a fall rate I want. These spoons flutter down very nicely, and also flutter pretty well on the retrieve. If fishing in current, I sometimes use a swivel to prevent line twist. It is not a technique that works all the time, but when the bite is on, it is dynamite. Sometimes just drifting them downstream in the current and then holding them in place so they "suspend and flutter" behind boulders (or any current obstruction) is a great technique also. I only use single hooks on the lures, which helps prevent snags.

[softwateronly]

 

On 6/7/2023 at 10:03 AM, TetraFish'n said:

I’ve never fished a flutter spoon, for smallmouth or otherwise, but I’m thinking about trying it in a highland reservoir that is heavily populated with Kokanee. 

 

I found a few articles detailing guys fishing this way. Just thought I would see if others might share their experience, areas they targeted, and setup they used. 

 

I have a 7’1” mh fast with 15 pound fluorocarbon that I was thinking about casting it with. The Kokanee in the reservoir are around 7 inches, so I was going to pick up a handful of spoons about that size or a little bigger.

 

There’s been multiple times running down the reservoir I’ll see Kokanee jumping out of the water. I’ve never considered it before, but I’m guessing that there are possibly bass suspended by the bait balls and are feeding on them. It’s usually in very deep water, pretty far from the bank. And I thought, if nothing else, it’ll just fun to explore a new technique. 

 

Thanks

 

Been playing around with flutter spoons this year and have had good success so far with LM and pike, I would think it would play well in SM waters.  I'm also gonna be watching for gizzard shad getting blown up in open water, and dropping it through.  Just a note from my newbie experience, a 5" nichols spoon is 1 1/8oz.  I think a 7" spoon is gonna be closer to 3oz.  

 

scott