Fishing a Fluke – advice?

I know that Flukes catch fish, I’ve just never really used them much. Anybody willing to share the best way to rig them (weightless? weighted? nail inside?) and what stuff you like to fish them in? I know alot of guys use them in pads and slop. Love to hear from you…I’ve got a couple packs of white ones (pearl) just taking up space in my plastics binder right now. Thanks.

I rarely fish them weighted. Although I have fished with people who rigged them on a carolina rig and do well. Some people I know put a good ballbearing swivel about 2ft up to keep the line from twisting.

The best hook I have ever used for a fluke is made by Lunker City. It’s called a Texposer hook. Fish have a difficult time throwing them.

I like to throw them along grass banks.

Me too, weightless most of the time, 5/0 Gammy EWG hook. Work great as a followup biat to fish that miss topwaters too.

I fish them weightless most of the time but once in a while I will put a small nail in the platic tail section. This keeps the irratic action but whan you pause the fluke will fall back a bit so right into the face of any following fish.

weight less with a fluke hook, mostly against the banks or in weeds. I also use them as a follow up lure. Putting a weight on them changes the action. You want them to come out of the water with a little pull on the line, looks like a wounded fish trying to get away. Like any top water you have to wait until they have it before you set the hook.

From time to time I will fish them with a nail in the tail. I only do this when fishing banks that have Milfoil starting 20 to 30 ft from shore. I swim the bait until I hit the foil. Then I let the weight take the bait into the small holes in the foil bed. You need to be carful of how much weight you use. To much and you make a mess , to little and it won’t move backwards into the foil .

weightless..i like to “texpose” the hook to insure a good hook set…you have to wait on them though so they take the bait..im sure you know that.

I like them weight-less,I use flukes to throw back up on missed rouges bites,this sometimes works very well.

I have always rigged them weightless, but if the wind is really strong, then I will switch them over to a carolina rig. If you flip the fluke over instead of using the sleeve part of the fluke, it will make the fluke float different in the water.

Thx much for the advice….I just back back from a business trip, and hadn’t had a chance to read this prior to my JL club outing last night. My son and I caught more fish than we could count on Pop-R’s last night, but all were 13-14″ fish. The kid actually caught fish on 5 consecutive casts! Anyway, so to try to find better fish, I just threw a fluke on a Gammy EWG 3/0 hook that had a 1/8 ounce bullet sinker (using for brush hawgs, didn’t take time to re-rig) and wacky-rigged it….immediately caught 3 legal fish, but again, they were 14″ triplets! Still, they seemed to like it rigged that way. One fish actually came up from below on the fall, and ate it while dancing out of the water with it! I didn’t think I had it hooked until I set the hook once he hit water and still had him on!

This happened on the edge of a grass-line in about 4 feet of water…and man was it hot….air 93, water 87.

WOW! 87 degree water??? is that on the lake? down here it is 81-83 degrees..87 degrees, thats just hot..

In the Black River, south of the I90 bridge…we found 86-88 degree water everywhere we went. Kid and I jumped in a couple times to cool down…but it didn’t work very well

ttt – good time to try a fluke right now.. mimicks the dying baitfish.