Doll Flies

[JUSTINHALL]

I primarily use it when they are in the jumps, I am casting into the jumps. Otherwise during the winter when they are back in the head of the creeks you can blind cast it and catch them as well. Its not ideal for summer time fishing as they are too deep but if they are actively feeding and moving up it works. I don't fish the banks with it like others were describing other than if it were back in a cove or creek head and I know they are busting bait there.
After a set of jumps has ended you can throw it and let is sink a ways then bring it back up sometimes you can get hit this way, but usually a jigging spoon works better for that.

[Mean Morone]

I'll tell you one quick story. My buddy are slinging bucktails on a cloudy day in Dec. many years ago back when there were schools of big fish roaming. We hadn't had a bite all day when I cast near shore and hang up on a stump. I had to break off and before I could re tie, my buddy sets the hook. He is using lite tackle(big mistake) and can't stop it. It gets off. He casts to the same spot on his next cast and hooks up again. Big fish! He cant stop it either and if finally pulls off. He casts to the same spot again and hooks up again. Big fish again and this time it breaks him off. He picks up his regular striper rig with a bucktail and fires it out to the same spot. Hooks up again and lands a 17 lber. Four casts and four hookups. This entire time I don't even have a lure tied on. Just my luck. I haven't used one since.

Talk about smallies, I just got back from the big indian in TN and caught more smallies than stripers. They love that Flitterbait. My biggest was 19 1/4 inches.

[sweett4u]

a couple of years ago ,in the spring, was my first time to fish for stripers at Fishing Creek? Anyway the friend gave me a pole with a bucktail and white curly tail ,and we were way back in the head of the creek.There were about ten boats there, and the fish were exploding ,sounded like a war zone. I threw that thing till my arm was about to dislocate,throwing at jumps and around the edges of them, and I caught a turtle . What an awesome time in the hills of Kentucky!