How best to utilize thse lures? I have some of each. Do I rig them just like I'd do a regular fluke? And work them the same? Do I use a jighead or what?

Flukes are able to be rigged and fished in several different. They are super versatile in that respect. "Regular" flukes can be nose hooked with a dropshot hook, Texas rigged with or without a weight, rigged with various ballheads, crawl them across surface 'cheese', as a trailer on a bladed jig, Carolina rigged, on an underspin, donkey rigged, fished behind a bubble, dropshotted. . . even wacky rigged. 

 

I would venture a guess that a ballhead is how many like to fish the swimmin' super fluke, however, I have personally had my best success on a Carolina rig and on an underspin.

 

The point being that "rigging them like a regular fluke" might be just what the doctor ordered in one situation, and a giant nothing-burger in another. I need to figure out how to get a bait in front of them wherever that may be, and then trigger them to strike at it. While the intent of it's design may have been to swim it through various parts of the water column, as far as I am concerned, once it's in my tackle bag I'll use it any way I want.

 

I like baits like that (Swimmin Fluke, Caffiene  Shad Swimbait, Keitech Swing Impact, Spark Shad and several others) for a Carolina rig and I fish them super slow, which if it only moved slowly, may as well be any other chunk of soft plastic. But what happens is that as the egg sinker catches on things like weeds or various structure and cover, when the egg sinker pulls loose from whatever it was hanging up on or falls off a ledge or out of a bush or tree, it swims briefly and this is when I get a lot of bites (but certainly not all of them). Nobody told me to use them this way and a lot of people look at me like I have two heads when I tell them what I use these baits for.

 

They are meant to mostly be used on a swim jighead or weightless Texas rigged and used to swim through schools or as a searchbait. That swimming action of the tail and the relatively realistic profile of a baitfish are makes them different from many other soft plastics, so if that is helpful, you can do whatever you want to with 'em.

My favorite way to rig a zoom fluke is on a 4/0 ewg gammy weightless.  Send it out, let it fall, give it a jerk and a twerk, let it shimmy, repeat.  Jerkbait action with a pause and a fall and a shimmy.

@Rockhopper I'm not talking about the regular Super Fluke, rather, I'm talking about the swimming version that has a paddletail.

54 minutes ago, Bazoo said:

@Rockhopper I'm not talking about the regular Super Fluke, rather, I'm talking about the swimming version that has a paddletail.

And my answer still stands.

 

You can always fish them like any other paddle tail too...put them on a weighted ewg or a ball jig head and just cast and retrieve.  They work well as trailers too. Spinnerbaits, swimjigs, etc.

I never would have figured to fish them in the same manner as a regular fluke.

A-rig. 

Carolina Rig.

 

Swimbaits that are not top tier swimbaits are often useful with these rigs.

1 hour ago, Bazoo said:

I never would have figured to fish them in the same manner as a regular fluke.

I do it all the time when I want more action of the bait.  Works well for me.

I've fished this lure with a lightly weighted VMC drop dead hook. This is also my favorite hook for a toad.

 

https://www.scheels.com/p/04319311913/?store=&msclkid=aa76691fccbd1f8b3cf401d3a01606dc

 

You can T-rig it and just bump it along bottom. I like it best around sparse vegetation. Fish will eat it up. I like the Houdini color. I need to buy some of these.

 

Edit: I see why I didn't replace them. They're expensive.

Best way for me is with a weighted Owner twist lock hook. 

 

Allen