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  • Super User

So I've never fished a super fluke style bait. I understand the technique and have settled on some brands and colors I'm going to try. One thing I'm wondering is what is your hook of choice?

I use owner twistlocks - 4/0 size I believe.  There are a lot of options though - you can use a wacky style hook and nose hook it, a regular offset hook and thread it on...just depends what action and how you are going to fish it.  

 

I like to do the donkey rig with two flukes a lot of the time in the summer.

 

Edit - I would like to add, I rig mine weedless and "upside down", if you will 

  • Super User

While I'll fish flukes as jig trailers occasionally, most often I use them on a donkey rig with 2/0 off-set hooks.

4/0 Heavy EWG hook.  Keeps the bait down in the water column.  Twist locks at 4/0 work too.  They can also be nose hooked.

  • Super User

A 4/0 Texas rig hook is a good choice for a Zoom Super Fluke.

I mainly use the small ones for riverine smallmouth.  I just 'nose hook' them, but rather than hooking them, I'll put them on an Owner CPS held in place by shrink wrap tubing.  I like the donkey rig, but it's more to entertain me than catch fish.  Particularly in clear water.  I think a single rigged weightless fluke is the one that catches the most fish.

  • Super User

I really like flukes or assassins and duplicate the action of spooks in deeper water columns......zig zag.

 

Nose hooked allows you to get away with lighter tackle and may increase hook-up ratio, seemingly. 

 

Prefer pearl in overcast AND smallmouth like them. 

 

I actually use a heavy action rod for Magnum with 5/0 hook or med heavy rod with 3/0 using standard fluke.

Generally I’ll throw them on a 4/0- 5/0 super line hook, keeps the bait down but still gives it the right action.

In addition to the suggestions above for weightless rigging and the like, one thing I like to do that I don't see mentioned super often is rigging them on a shakyhead.

 

That's about as finesse as I can go and stay awake at all.

  • Super User
On 4/30/2020 at 7:43 PM, soflabasser said:

A 4/0 Texas rig hook is a good choice for a Zoom Super Fluke.

^This^ I use a  Gamakatsu 4/0 EWG hooks and the fit perfectly on Zoom Super Flukes , some like the same in a 3/0 for a slightly different action or slower fall rate .

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