Tips for using flukes?

[Bassboss]

I can't seem to catch many fish with these little suckers! Where and when is it good to use these things? Also what colors do you like most? Any tips would be great!

[Marty]

I can't seem to catch many fish with these little suckers! Where and when is it good to use these things? Also what colors do you like most? Any tips would be great!

Any color. Rig weightless with a 4/0 extra-wide-gap hook. (I'm talking about the 5" size.)

Use around shallow cover with a twitch-pause type of retrieve. If there are weeds, let them drop in holes or at the edges. Walk the dog with them on top.

There are other ways. But if you're not catching, you're probably not on the fish, because these lures are great fish attractors. Be a line watcher, as sometimes you won't feel anything, but just see the line moving off.

[Bassboss]

I can't seem to catch many fish with these little suckers! Where and when is it good to use these things? Also what colors do you like most? Any tips would be great!

Any color. Rig weightless with a 4/0 extra-wide-gap hook. (I'm talking about the 5" size.)

Use around shallow cover with a twitch-pause type of retrieve. If there are weeds, let them drop in holes or at the edges. Walk the dog with them on top.

There are other ways. But if you're not catching, you're probably not on the fish, because these lures are great fish attractors. Be a line watcher, as sometimes you won't feel anything, but just see the line moving off.

Would you recommend using a leader if using braid? Say 15lb sufix?  

[FD.]

I use white/glimmer blue or golden shiner with a 5-0 zoom toad hook.  15 lb big game mono.

[Stan Browning]

i like to throw them weightless on a 5/0 owner,and i also throw them using a splitshot about 12-18inches above.as far as colors go

you cant beat watermelon seed tail dipped in chartruese,and watermelon red is good i also use pearl white and baby bass.and last but not least watermelon candy

[fathom]

pre-spawn, i use a 6/0 gammie ewg superline on the super fluke for getting a little deeper in the water column.

the superlines are a tad heavier and gives the fluke a rate of fall closer to a senko-type bait.

p.s....they don't call 'em smoking shad for nothing.     8-)

[J Francho]

If you're having trouble with hookups, try nose hooking them with a 1/0 Owner Mosquito hook.

[SirSnookalot]

I'm not crazy for them at all and do much better with an xrap, howver there is a time and place for them and they do catch fish.  I use a worm bullet style weight on the nose and I use a leader on my braid as well.

Now.......if you fish salt or brackish try this.  DOA swim jerk shad(white with red tail) and DOA 1/4 oz jig head. This has produced at least 150 snook and 20 tarpon this year for me and others I know get the same results.  let it just float in the current of the outgoing tide at an inlet or spillway, reel and twitch it in the ocean or icw or jig it. Works for bass too.  I have much better success than a zoom fluke.

[Raul]

I can't seem to catch many fish with these little suckers! Where and when is it good to use these things? Also what colors do you like most? Any tips would be great!

When: anytime, anyday

How: that 's where the catch begins.

It 's a matter of how and not when, how is determined by the conditions.

In how many way you can rig a fluke ?:

1.- D-shot

2.- traditional T-rigged unweighted

3.- T-rigged with a weighted hook

4.- Carolina rigged

5.- Split shot T rigged

6.- Split shot nose rigged

7.- Shakey head rigged

8.- Jighead rigged

9.- Double fluke rigged

10.- Wacky rigged along the back unweighted

11.- Wacky rigged along the back nose weighted

12.- Wacky rigged perpendiculary going hooking all the way through the bait.

Those are some of the ways you can rig a fluke, at least 12 completely different presentations all with the same bait.

[Ern]

SHORT jerks and twitches are the way to go.  I LOVE the Super and Super Jrs.  I will rig with a 5/0 and 3/0 EWG Gamagastu. Try fishing on a Med to Med light Spin Rig too. Such rigs tend to be more forgiving until you get the hang of it. I throw the jrs on 4lb and up for clear water and the bigger on 10lb and up.

As far as go to color I like the Albino.

Ern

[CWB]

I prefer Strike Kings Z-Too because they float and last forever.

10-15 lb. mono on spinning gear for casting distance.

Xcellent bait for heavy cover or for throwing to schoolies.

Skips well under docks also. Control sink rate with hook.

I use 4/0 EWG and fish on top most of the time.

[pabassin]

I have had a lot of success this year using the flukes around the spawn when you can sight fish for both males and females, I caught a ton of them rigged weightless and using the "bubblegum" color. Twiching it like crazy, skipping it up under things, and mostly irratating them until they move it away from the beds. A good fast hook set, you got em.

[SoFl-native]

soft jerk baits (flukes, bass assasins, etc) are killer baits. One of the most versatile baits around.

they will catch fish when used with all the methods mentioned above.

ps-You can fish them slow too......like worm slow....can be killer when the bite is off a bit.

[Primus]

I've done well on the "Petey rig" that Peter Thiliveros used to win a national tournament a couple of years back. This is basically a C-rigged set-up with a short app 10" leader with a swivel and a 1/16 oz slip sinker using 14lb florocarbon line with MH 7' baitcasting combo. This has a spiral action as opposed to the glide that you'll get from a weightless Fluke and it also is a more effecient way to fish deeper water. This has put fish in the boat for me on those" tough days." Some of my favorite colors would be Watermelon, Green Pumpkin, Baitfish, Baby Bass, Smokin Shad & Pearl. This bait along with the Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver are probably my 2 favorite soft plastics.