How do you rig them and how do you fish them?

 

 I have a mold and have made lots of colors and tried various ways to fish them.  Only 2 ways have been productive,  nose hooking and using as a twitching top water after the spawn and the most productive is on an A rig.  White is the only color that has been any good.

4/0 1/16oz gamakatsu weighted superline spring lock. I still like the super fluke but some of my other favorites are the d shad, caffeine shad and dolive stick.

Lightly weighted hook, Texas rigged.  Fish it like an underwater walking bait in the top 12” of the column.  Great when there is grass growing up but not yet to the surface.  Work it fairly quick until you hit a hole in the grass and just kill it.  

When I do, I use a nail weight in the back. 
I rig with the nose pointed up so when I hit it it will rise or opposite to make it dive. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

I understand what you are doing but we have no aquatic vegetation except in one small cove for a while in the summer.  We are rocks with some timber.

4/0 with the XL beast hook keeper. Early spring and late fall weightless because I’m moving it more slowly and the colder water lends itself to more bites. Summer I go 1/16 or up to 1/4 weighted hook depending on depth. 
 

While most folks fish it in less than 3’ I’ve had a ton of luck at 10-15 on the 1/4oz hook on deep dock pillars, submerged laydowns, and rock piles. I don’t think most bass see a fluke at those depths so it gets bit. 
 

I prefer the do-live stick or dshad because of the density of the baits and they both seem to shimmy on the way down. Caffeine shad 100% in less than 3’. I can’t put my finger on it but the caffeine in the shallows is money. 

4/0 weightless T rigged. Arkansas shiner color 

Guess I'm not biased.

Top to bottom:

Caffeine shad 

D-shad 

Bass assassin 

Shad impact 

Fluke 

Throw them year around on Owner 4.0 twist lock.

When I fish them deep it's 3/32.

Shallow flats in the spring, through grass, in cover and hopping off bottom.

Walking them is probably a favorite way of working them.

Top 5 favorite bait of all-time.

I wish it was rocks and timber here. It’s all vegetation and silt bottom from the vegetation dying every year.  We do have a few feet of rip rap bank in the ponds though. 
 

I fish them on a 4/0 ewg weightless personally.  A couple twitches and let it sit and repeat 

I fish super flukes weightless with a Gamakatsu 5/0 superline EWG hook. The heavier gauge hook allows me to cast the super fluke weightless on 30 lb braid. 
 

It’s a great bait to fish around grass & lily pads. Also is a great follow up bait if I miss a blow up on a frog or swimming toad. My normal retrieve is twitch, twitch, pause. 

3 minutes ago, wdp said:

I fish super flukes weightless with a Gamakatsu 5/0 superline EWG hook. The heavier gauge hook allows me to cast the super fluke weightless on 30 lb braid. 
 

It’s a great bait to fish around grass & lily pads. Also is a great follow up bait if I miss a blow up on a frog or swimming toad. My normal retrieve is twitch, twitch, pause. 

Thank you. Forgot to mention I also use a superline hook. 

I texas rig them with a 3/0 worm hook and twitch them 1'-3' below the surface. I give 2-3 twitches like a jerkbait and a pause, usually a short pause. I will also run the double fluke rig this way.

 

I will run either the double fluke rig, or a single fluke, on the surface or just below the surface like a spook as well.

All from shore, and both in grass and non-grass bodies of water.

I throw it post spawn also. If there's some water in the bushes all the better. I just t rig it.

I won a guided trip years ago with a really good Table rock fisherman and he showed  me how to use it on a Scrounger head on gravel flats and points.