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I'd pull her out of that water, keep her alive as best I could, donate her to a local museum/aquarium/etc. and cash in on the record like nobody's business! Talk shows? You bet! Sponsorship deals? As many as I could wrap my greedy little hands around. A book deal detailing the momentous event and my overall love for the sport? Boy, I sure hope so!

I didn't mention the super flukes because he said he had a Medium action rod. I use to use a medium action rod to fish the supers but i couldn't seem to get a good hookset, i switched to a MH and now i do fine with them. Do you have any hookup problems with a Medium action and super flukes? Not at all! In fact, I caught my personal best (the one in my avatar) on a 5' 6" Medium Light Action trigger grip casting rod (Gander Mountain's "Guide Series" Competitor). I hauled that 4 + pounder and a handful of 2 to 3 pounders all in a single morning. Rod worked like a dream. And get this: my reel was a Zebco 33 Platinum edition spincaster!

Don't forget Zoom Super Flukes rigged weightless and weedless with a 4/0 EWG offset Gamakatsu hook.

After reading the book: "Knowing Bass" by that Berkley scientist I can't help but respect what they're doing. The amount of research that is put into their lure development is staggering.

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Mine does. wow maybe something is wrong with yours cuz every single review i have seen said it doesnt swivel. is there something you have to push/pull to get it to swivel? Mine swivels too.

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Yup. Cathcing bluegills on tiny crankbaits is a blast!

By the way, which creature bait were you using?

Well, I'm not real experienced with them yet. But I've caught fish with the Zoom Brush Hog.

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If it's good enough for Glenn, it's good enough for me.

I love Super Flukes rigged weightless on a 4/0 EWG offset Gamakatsu hook. The action these things display when "jerked" is amazing. They dart through the water erratically and, when paused, they slide into the depths the way a dying shad might. My buddies and I have been absolutely slaying bass with Super Flukes lately.

Welcome to the forums and welcome back to bass fishing!

Happens too often. Man, I need to get a boat...

I get skunked plenty.

Wicked pic.

I imagine that would work. However, the standard answer at this forum is a Gary Yamamoto 5 inch Senko or a Gary Yamamoto Fat Ika rigged with the skirt up.

I keep small crankbaits around in case I notice panfish activity. A tiny Rapala Countdown Minnow (CD1) will absolutely slay bluegills. So will Strike King's tiny cranks (sorry, forgot their name--something like Bitsy Minnow, or something like that).

For the moment, Zoom Super Flukes are my go-to bait (at least in weedy conditions).

I got to try it out on a 2 pound 3 ouncer and a 3 pound 11 ouncer. Worked great.

The 2nd bass I ever caught was on a Jitterbug. Tossed it out and immediately witnessed the bass shoot up from the shallows to hammer it. The bass must have seen it in mid-air because he struck right as the Jitterbug landed. That was a fun catch.

Great write-up.

I'm still fairly inexperienced with fishing soft plastics. However, I've recently had some success fishing Zoom Super Flukes weightless with a 3/0 or 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook. You can fish these baits fairly quickly with a pause, twitch, twitch, pause retrieve. And since you can rig them weedless, you can work them through grass and other areas where a Rat-L-Trap or Spinnerbait might get snagged.