Double Fluke Rig

[huskertko]

I was watching BSP show last night on TIVO and KVD was fishing a double fluke rig and the action of the lures looked very cool. It definitely looked like a couple of baitfish darting back and forth. Has anyone else use this rig with any success, I don't think I have ever heard of a pro using it in a tournament, is it legal for tournament fishing.

[Shad_Master]

As for tournament fishing, I suppose it depends on the rules for that tournament.  Most rules state that you can only have one rod/reel working at a time, so this would seem to be legal.  I have never tried this but one of the guys in my club buys the pre-rigged worms and thows away the worm and uses the rigging to put a fluke on each hook.  He buys the ones with the little propeller beads on it and has reported catching more than one fish at a time on this rig.

[Siebert Outdoors]

yeah about 2 weeks ago I fished it for the first time.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1149885696 I believe its the 2nd post with my comments and description of the rig.

 

[huskertko]

Cool, thanks.  I just saw it and it looked interesting, I may have to give it a try one of these days.  Did you fish it on spinning or baitcasting gear?

[cpvenom]

i used it a few times last year and caught a few good fish on it. After I took it off, i just never remembered to put it back on, so thanks for the reminder. I fished mine on spinning gear with no real problems.

[Siebert Outdoors]

I threw it on a baitcaster with 12lb flourocarbon.

[New Bass Man]

I tried it.  I found out about on a BassResource video.  You're right--the action is excellent.

 

 

[Guest ouachitabassangler]

I began liking the rig after putting a 1 oz sinker on a 3-way swivel so it pulls the lower fluke deeper than the leading fluke, keeping them from tangling on the cast. Overhead casts tangle like a C-rig overhead, best cast sideways. The first month I tried that rig a couple of years ago caught two bass together several times. Last year that never happened once. But this year I've had one spotted bass take both flukes before I felt a thing. It's a good follow-up rig for when a pack of bass follow a spinnerbait without biting, and better for when one bass takes a spinnerbait and several more gang up trying to take it away. It's also a good rig for boating plenty of chain pickerel, trash fish here.

Jim

[Matt Fly]

I have rigged them like the salt water speck rig for trout, which is a double leader, double lead head buck tail jigs.    But used the flukes and other baits.   I have had lots of action using tubes with this type rig.

[snapperd1]

Anyone with a picture of the double fluke rig.  I would like to see what it looks like rigged up.

Thanks,

Tom Delinski

[DCE Basser]

[Guest ouachitabassangler]

I'm not good with photography, sorry. I won't get good at it, either! :-/ But here's my double fluke rig. Without the drop-shot sinker holding the long lead down the two constantly twisted together. The sinker keeps the lower fluke low and away from the upper fluke, and helps let the rig as deep as I wish depending on depth of bite. Here's a rough outline of the rig...backwards to the photo...

                  >>>>>>....................O--O.................................main line

                                                      |

                                                      O 3-way swivel

                                                     /

                                                /

                                                /

>>>>>>..................................../

                              |

                              O sinker

I lob cast it sideways like a long C-rig, or let it out and troll it out. It does get tangled on the cast sometimes, and often I feel it untwist with a pop while swimming in. If any of it snags up only one fluke gets broken off, never both yet. The photo is of the latest rig that uses a split ring at the 3-way for each fluke leader and the rings atach to an extra swivel.

Jim

[huskertko]

The one thing that I noticed with the way that KVD had it rigged that is different that the above diagram is that instead of a 3-way swivel, he used two barrel swivels.  His reasoning was that if you get two fish on at one time, with a 3-way swivel the fish have pull point to pull against each other and the chance to break on off is greater.  With the second barrel swivel above the first, it is free to move up and down the main line so the fish really can't pull against one another to break off, and he said that way is less likely to tangle since the second fluke is more free to move around.

[snapperd1]

Thanks for the pictures that is preety much what I thought it would look like.  I will need to give that a try the next time I am out.

Tom D.

[Guest ouachitabassangler]

I saw that suggestion on a forum some months back, and tried it. It might never happen again but I caught 2 bass on one cast into a school breaking at the mouth of a cove, and ended up with one bass sliding up the mainline to me, the other wanting to dive, both wrapping the whole mess around a tree, costing me the rig and both bass. I went back to the 3-way on a heavier 20# mainline and 14# leaders and havn't had a problem since. You are highly likely to catch two at a time since once one bass bites others typicaly follow trying to take the bait away. I don't think I've had two bass trying to swim different directions, though that might be happening, but do believe they mostly tend to swim side by side school fashion when hooked together just like when you sometimes get 6 bass in a wad following with one hooked on a spinnerbait. The BIG problem is trying to boat both at once. I've managed to net one but not both together, so I've had to let one tug while removing one, rod bending with fish diving under the boat, occasionally losing the one not netted. It would work better having a partner helping. The other problem is the two baits tangling on the cast, but once it lands properly the sinker keeps one below the other.

Jim