Flukes??

[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.