Fluke Questions

[guilford]

The lake that I fish most often, has stained water. I've tried super flukes, tiny flukes, bass assasins. I worked them slow,fast, and in between. The lake is filled with shad and the ones I see are only 3 inches long. My question is what is the most productive cadence do you have the most success with? Should I be working it much faster as to produce a reaction strike? not letting the bass get a good look at the passing fluke? The depth also, let it sink down more? To me its an awesome dying, struggling shad lure. but the bass aren't buying it. lol. Thanks for any imput.

[clayton86]

For me depends on the day some days they kill it soon as it gets wet others I gotta lwt it sink. I also keel weight it at times

[Marty]

I don't think there's a right answer. You have to do trial-and-error on the water to learn what's working that day. And I certainly wouldn't limit myself to soft jerkbaits, especially when they're not producing.

[Scorcher214]

White and weightless. Always. Unless it's on the back of a swarming hornet. Weigtless, I either give it 3-4 jerks then a pause. Or one jerk, one pause, one jerk, one pause....

[MuffinMan]

I never catch anything on the regular tailed flukes, I catch them on a swimmin super fluke with the paddle tail in houdini shad.

[The Rooster]

Try them wacky rigged. Especially the plain fluke, not the super fluke (but it works too). Also, I try them nose hooked instead of texposed. It lets the bait be a lot more flexible in the water if you need more action on it.

[guilford]

Thank you all. For your help.

[CWB]

I like the Caffeine Shad by Strike King. You can work it like a spook on top, and because it sinks faster than flukes, you can rig it weightless and work it just about any depth by letting it sink and pausing between twitches. Bonus is when you kill it, the tail wiggles like a senko. They are pretty flimsy though and alot of times you're just gonna get one or 2 hook-sets out of them but for me they work much better than a fluke. I like the Yum Houdini Shad with the flat tail also. Don't lock yourself into one bait or technique. Trying to figure out what the fish want and how they want it is part of the game.

[slonezp]

Yum Houdinishad in "bluegill" color(no longer available) was a go to bait for me a few years ago. Now I only throw them weightless in weeds. Never liked the hard nose bass assassins if thats whats your talking about. Rather than throwing a fluke why not try a shad patterned crankbait like a Bomber or one of KVD's squarebills, or spinnerbait? Instead of trying to make one certain bait work, figure out a certain bait that works.