Fluke Colors........

[Dan:]

I buy three colors: a white or silver, arkansas shiner, and green pumpkin. I pick which one to use based on water clarity.

[DINK WHISPERER]

My favorites are White/White Ice, Baby Bass and Albino.

[BenoBreath]

Baby Bass all the way !

[grinder]

The lake I been goin to they love the watermelon with red flakes.

[Raul]

Never tried a bubblegum colored fluke. Who'd athought. Guess I'll give that one a try.

You won 't see many us guys showing you they we fishing with a Bubble Gum Fluke type bait, we fish them but we don 't want you to see us fishing with a chick color bait.  :-X

[RoLo]

Never tried a bubblegum colored fluke. Who'd athought. Guess I'll give that one a try.

You won 't see many us guys showing you they we fishing with a Bubble Gum Fluke type bait, we fish them but we don 't want you to see us fishing with a chick color bait. :-X

I wouldn't be caught dead, fishing with anything pink!

But I'm still alive  ;D

Roger

[Bassn Blvd]

Arkansas Shiner

X2

I fish that color and that color only year round here in S. Florida.

[iceintheveins]

Pearl White, Baby Bass, Lemon Shad, Watermelon Seed, Arkansas Shiner, and bubblegum.

[iceintheveins]

Lemon Shad is overlooked and is a great imitator of a small bass.

[Mike 12345]

I really like the pearl white color.  Seems quite good on a Carolina Rig.

I've been experimenting with these type baits a lot, and I'm strongly considering leaning more heavily on the fluke, just because you can use it so many different ways, and they are pretty inexpensive as well.

[SWH]

how do you retrieve and move the fluke when your fishing it weightless? i have some baby bass but never fished them so i was curious on what you think works best.

[RoLo]

how do you retrieve and move the fluke when your fishing it weightless? i have some baby bass but never fished them so i was curious on what you think works best.

"Unweighted" is the only way I'll fish the zoom fluke

Rig the fluke on a 4/0 Gamakatsu Superline hook, and if you're in heavy cover be sure to bury the hook-point in plastic.

An unweighted fluke can be fished numerous ways, but I prefer to keep the fluke between the surface and two feet deep.

This is done by waiting about 3 seconds after splashdown, then imparting a short double-twitch.

A single twitch is okay, but a double-twitch exhibits a side-to-side darting action like a live fish.

Simply repeat the double-twitch and 3-second pause to keep the fluke in the subsurface strike zone.

Roger

[SWH]

sweet thanks for the advice

[I.rar]

ive never fished them weightless. always with a 1/8-3/8 unpegged weight. same method as rolo stated though.

[Danny1991]

I fish stained lakes and really like the watermelon seed color!

[BenoBreath]

Baby bass & Bait fish work for me !

      BB  

[Primus]

I like the Super Fluke in Baby Bass, Baitfish, Smokin Shad, Watermelon & Pearl colors. In addition to fishing weightless and fishing it deadstick with the occasional twitch I also like to use the " Petey rig", which I fish with a 1/16 oz sinker followed by a 10-12" leader making it a short C-rig. This is the method that Peter T used to win a major tournament a couple of years back and it's put a lot of fish in the boat for me.

[RoLo]

So what did we all learn from the answer?

> Watermelon Candy

> Albino

> Bubblegum

> Glimmer Blue

> White Pearl

> Watermelon Red

> Junebug

> White Ice

> Baitfish

> Smokey Joe

> Lemon Shad

> Watermelon w/Chartreuse tail

> Baby Bass

> Green Pumpkin

> Watermelon Seed

> Smokin Shad

> Pearl White

> Arkansas Shad

Roger

[D4u2s0t]

So what did we all learn from the answer?

> Watermelon Candy

> Albino

> Bubblegum

> Glimmer Blue

> White Pearl

> Watermelon Red

> Junebug

> White Ice

> Baitfish

> Smokey Joe

> Lemon Shad

> Watermelon w/Chartreuse tail

> Baby Bass

> Green Pumpkin

> Watermelon Seed

> Smokin Shad

> Pearl White

> Arkansas Shad

Roger

we've learned that color is pretty much irevelent when it comes to lure selection.  Any post like this, "What's the best color" will turn out 50 different answers.  What does it mean?  Just pick a color and go with it.  The people that sit there and try 100 different colors in a day are just wasting their time.

[Bass Junkie]

     Thanks guys!!! As for the last post (RoLo's), I'm beginning to beleive that more and more. But why do some colors work better than others? Example: pond, both of us throwing torpedos, one gold black, one baby bass. Gold black caught some bluegill and missed a 17" bass. Baby bass killed bluegills, and caught a 21" largemouth and a 17" largemouth, plus a couple smaller. Many of these were spotted and cast to. Fish came up to the gold/ black and turned away. Baby Bass, nadda. Bights 99% of the time. Same line. Why did this happen?

[Fishing Rhino]

Never tried a bubblegum colored fluke. Who'd athought. Guess I'll give that one a try.

You won 't see many us guys showing you they we fishing with a Bubble Gum Fluke type bait, we fish them but we don 't want you to see us fishing with a chick color bait. :-X

I wouldn't be caught dead, fishing with anything pink!

But I'm still alive ;D

Roger

The pink fluke is OK, but those shirts..................?????

[D4u2s0t]

     Thanks guys!!! As for the last post (RoLo's), I'm beginning to beleive that more and more. But why do some colors work better than others? Example: pond, both of us throwing torpedos, one gold black, one baby bass. Gold black caught some bluegill and missed a 17" bass. Baby bass killed bluegills, and caught a 21" largemouth and a 17" largemouth, plus a couple smaller. Many of these were spotted and cast to. Fish came up to the gold/ black and turned away. Baby Bass, nadda. Bights 99% of the time. Same line. Why did this happen?

could have been many things.  the first thing I want to point out is that both caught fish.  But could have been presentation, or just the bait looking the right way, or being in the right place at the right time.  

99% of soft plastics in my box are the same color.  Majority of the time I outfish the people i'm with.  Why?  Because my biggest concern is presentation, and location of my bait, not the color.  Ever throw the exact same bait, in the same spot, and have someone catch more fish than the other person?  Same example.  Fish are weird.  Just because a fish is there, and you put bait in front of it doesn't mean it will bite.

[Bass Junkie]

  Yeah, fish do tend to be weird. Thanks for the reply. The more I fish, the more I concentrate on the presentation. I think back to when I began fishing and can't believe I caught fish....... My casts/ presentations were AWFULL!!! Ahh, but those are precious ( if you'll excuse the expression) days......

[RoLo]

Thanks guys!!! As for the last post (RoLo's), I'm beginning to beleive that more and more. But why do some colors work better than others?

This is the best way I can explain it:

The only color that can possibly catch a bass, is the color that's on the end of your line.

Conversely, every color that is not on the end of your line has zero chance of catching a bass.

As a result, we have more to do with the color that bass are striking than we might imagine...not the bass.

If one angler is catching bass and the other is not, the wise angler will not waste mental energy thinking about color,

but focus on far more important matters such as Lure Depth, Lure Speed, Lure Action, Lure Size, and Line of Retrieve.

I fish only "bubblegum" flukes because it is highly visible, which gives me an edge on presentation.

Roger

[Bass Junkie]

  Thank you