Caught this short stubby guy, the biggest fish I’ve caught in weeks. Bass in my pond are incredibly finicky and I needed to find a true weedless lure with the presentation like a ned rig… The fluke!!! First time tying one on, it got slammed 3 times and landed one.

Suh-weeeet!

Flukes get hit but hookups are hit and miss.

Try a Gamakatsu 4.0 superline screw lock hook 🪝 

 

3 hours ago, Bird said:

Flukes get hit but hookups are hit and miss.

Try a Gamakatsu 4.0 superline screw lock hook 🪝 

 

That's exactly my experience with flukes. The gamakatsu looks interested, I'll give it a shot.

Nice! I've found a solid 2-3 second delay helps hookups greatly with a fluke. I normally use a 3/0 round bend worm hook. I do skin hook it, but I try to be ever so light with that.

Congrats! Flukes are one of my favorites. I also like the 4/0 Gamakatsu screwlock but I like the 1/16 oz version to get a little more weight on them (without impacting the action too much). I also like the 6th sense version since the colors are a little nicer but one of my goals for the next 2 months is to find out if the lure with my personal color preference (6th sense) is really going to beat a tried and true fluke in the 'not as great of a color but the bass might not give a crap anyway' color.

 

I also like the weightless Gamakatsu screwlock hooks but I use caffeine shads with that setup and it's a nice one to throw around docks since it has a bit more of a shimmy to it and they have a couple of good shad looking colors.

Flukes are so hard to beat 

I have to start throwing flukes more… nice fish

15 hours ago, WackyWormNedRig said:

I have to start throwing flukes more… nice fish

For me, Flukes are guaranteed to get bit. And it’s weedless as well, so you can throw them in the nastiest areas. Only bad thing is soft plastics are exhaustible and I go through them pretty quickly

Nice! When it cools down here in the fall the bass will be going after flukes more.