Flukes??

[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.

[RoadToad]

I just read about dead-sticking the other day. It seems some guys like it for crank baits, too. Guy said he started doing when he had a birdsnest one day, and was in the process of getting it out when a fish nailed his crank that was just sitting there suspended in the water.