Flukes??

[DJD]

Try it again next Spring (shallow) and you won't need patience....all you will need is a bandaid for your sore thumb!

[Rangerman]

Most of my success has been prespawn, spawn or post spawn related. Good bait to have in your arsenal.

[bigwormy]

fish a fluke all year myself. works very well year round for me too. catch a lot of keepers.

[thebassman30]

I fish a fluke more than any other bait. I absolutely never twitch it or jerk it or fish it fast. Dead stick it all year- catches giants. Wal marts red 1/32oz hook is perfect. Of course you can catch plenty of smaller bass with the classic jerk bait retrieve, but if a big LM hits it it will be a fluke

So very true Andy....Dead sticking it is deadly. I forgot to mention that and you're so correct my friend.
Late~
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[RoadToad]

Wal marts red 1/32oz hook is perfect.

What style of hook? Do you mean the flutter hooks? 1/32 oz jigs?

[smuckey41]

a fluke is my fav. bait. and like people said in other post there are many diffrent ways and styles butt the way i fish it most is on a 6'6 mh graphite rod with 8 to 10 pound p-line flouroclear and 4/0 mustad hook. this helps it sink more and you get better fill from the line. i would say try some of these ways and you will have more confidence in the fluke.


chuck

[CMIDD]

Thanks again Guys. I will hopefully get to give them a shot sometime this weekend.

[Col Forbin]

Flukes also make the perfect follow up to short topwater bites. I always have one rigged up and ready when throwing a sammy. Throw it out right where the short strike was and barely twitch it, or do nothing - you will almost always get it that way - just hang on the fish is usually fired up.

[JoeB]

Andy, I'm not familiar with the term "dead stick". Please enlighten me.

[LarryG]

Also dont forget to use a good braided line, with a flouro leader, you wont need to worry much about hook setting through the bait then. But its to late in the year to really wear them out now, when that water gets into the high 70s, it seems that the time frame for sucess with them grows smaller.

[JUSTINHALL]

Up at Lake St. Clair in the clear water I throw it all day long in the river. In and around grass beds, docks weed lines you name it the Zoom 5” fluke is a major player up there(pearly white). I have always fished it fast though not so much luck on the slow retrieve but you have current to deal with and the fish are far more aggressive than down here. The pike and musky love them too up there so when you donate one to Mr. toothy your not out too much money.
By the way Lake St. Clair is worth the drive if you are ever looking for somewhere awesome to fish. I fished Lake Erie last weekend but St. Clair is next on the list.

[Chubminnow]

Ditto JoeB'S comment about "dead sticking"? I guess it is exactly as it sounds?? Cast the fluke and keep constant contact with it as you reel it back in, keeping the rod still while doing it? I too would like for definition to the term dead sticking.