hey guys welcome to window fishing daron here today i got with me the fluke i'm going to show
you how to rig it i'm going to show you where to fish it i'm going to show you how to fish it but
first let's start off with the rigging so in order to rig this bad boy you're going to need
a either 3 ot or four ought hook one of these right here you're gonna want an ewg
extra wide gap hook with an offset bend right here that's gonna hold the tip of your fluke which i'll
show you in just a second now i recommend this hook if your fluke has a slit in it if it does not
have a slit in it you can do similar hooked but next not extra wide gap just a straight shank hook
but for today we're gonna show you the most basic rigging of how to hook this thing up the most
common way is actually the texas rig weightless so how you want to rig this is take your hook
put it right through the front of the fluke run it about a quarter inch down and out the side
you see how that looks right now now if you want the hook to come out on the slit side which you do
you're gonna have to run the hook on the opposite side this is true whenever you hook
a lot of different creature baits so if you want to hook out this side
at the end result you can start over here so you're going to run that through
get it stuck on that offset bend of the hook and now what you're going to do is line up where you
think the hook is going to come or it needs to come out in order for this to be nice and flush
right there and basically hook it up in there you're good to go that's how you rig the fluke
as you can see in the slit there it's just nicely hidden and whenever a bass comes and smashes this
and you set the hook this is going to bend down and that is going to reveal the hook and you're
going to be able to tag that fish with that and catch it so that's how you rig the fluke now the
fluke is considered a soft jerk bait and i i tell you what when these things are hitting i
mean the bass smash smash smash and you might be thinking yourself why in the world have i never
used the flick before and why in the world don't i own any more because you can go through these
pretty quickly a lot of times if these are going to break especially after a bass or two smashes it
this will rip off the nose and you'll be like why don't i own more of these things because
when they're hot they're hot another thing about fishing the fluke i fish the wacky worm a a lot
uh it's kind of my confidence bait but what i've noticed is that the size of the fish that i catch
with the fluke versus the wacky worms i get i believe a noticeably larger fish whenever i fish
the fluke so i'm not sure why but it's something i just noticed recently so another way that you can
keep from this ripping a lot is they have a lot of different types of hooks out there and one is
called a screw lock we basically can screw the head in and it's going to be more resistant to
tearing and ripping and if you don't care about weeds at all i've seen it where you can just put
a size one or one ott kind of octopus hook on the front and just kind of nose hook the thing and
pull it through the water for that action that you're going to be looking for all right this
is really important if you get your flukes and they've been sitting in a packaging for a while or
the packaging has kind of been weird and this tail is kind of warped there's a way to fix it and i
highly recommend because you don't fix it and this tail is warped off to the side this thing will be
doing corkscrews through the water and it's not the action that you want from it so what you want
to do is boil some water and this will work for all soft plastics if you have a warped plastic and
you want it to go back to the original design when it came off the floor brand new and so what you do
is dip your soft plastic or whatever the part is warped into boiling hot water for maybe 15 seconds
take it out put it in cold water for a few seconds and that should reset the original design
of the plastic sometimes you get it and they look perfect so this one doesn't look too bad but if
you get it and this is kind of bent over to the side you're going to want to reset that plastic
and i would just buy a bunch of these things and do them all at once to kind of save yourself
some time so where you want to fish the fluke man this could be endless but usually with most lures
you're looking for cover that's the stuff that is on top of the body of water that you're fishing
so what i'm looking for when i'm when i'm fishing the fluke the cover i'm looking for is your lay
downs i wish your trees that fall over the side of the water if i have docks around
me i'm gonna skip this thing under the dock i'm looking for shallow bushes along the edge
i'm looking for my grasses i'm looking for bait balls i'm looking for wherever the fish
are schooling and i've had a lot of luck in intermittent pads as well let's talk about
how you fish this thing so whenever you're casting this particular lure you're going to want to leave
about a foot off the end of the tip of your pole in order to cast this thing out there don't reel
it all up to the end and try to cast it you're not going to get the distance that you want to leave
about a foot from the end of your pole when you're casting chuck this thing out there and when this
thing hits you don't want it to start real and retrieving it right away let it sit this thing is
going to slowly fall through the water column and a lot of times i actually get the bass to smash it
on that fault so wait five seconds before you start to do any type of retrieve
with the fluke all right so if the bass don't smash it or fall no problem they're not always
going to do that but what i'll start doing is the idea here is that you're trying to mimic
dying bait fish that's what the fluke is designed to do and so what i'll do is tug tug tug and what
you're looking for is real erratic movements with the fluke and then you kind of pop so this thing's
going to go jerk jerk jerk it's going to flip through the water and then it's going to slowly
pause tuck tug tug this thing will radically move through the water and then it's going to slowly
pause and start to fall a lot of times you'll get the vast attention through the tugging and the
erratic motions and whenever it stops that's when the bass will hit so if you're not having luck
with the kind of tug and erratic motions you can actually burn this lure to throw it out and reel
it in really fast and sometimes that will trigger a bite it's not my favorite way to do it but if
you're having zero luck and you're getting ready to put the thing up and try something else out
throw a couple out and try burning them back to your boat or burning them back to the bank
wherever you're at and you might actually get hit that way so something to try just have a few more
techniques in your arsenal while fishing the flute but if you do that you're probably going to need
a high gear on your bait caster if you're using a bait baitcaster so something seven one one or
higher is going to help you burn this fluke to the speed you're gonna need to or you're gonna
be sitting there reeling it super as fast as you can if you have a low gear on your baitcaster like
anything in the five or six range i of course a big fan of skipping this lure especially if
you're in shallow water you don't want to rainbow cast this into an area and spook your fish and
also you want to change it up if you're fishing in a cold weather you want to slow your roll
a little bit let the let the positives between your tugs i know it's kind of brutal lasts about
anywhere from 10 to 15 seconds before you tug it again that's going to get these lazy cold
fish that are pretty lethargic to pay attention to it so if you're burning that thing in cold water
you're likely not going to catch too much so in warm water you can be a whole lot more aggressive
with the fluke which i am so tuck tuck tug maybe pause a second or two tuck tuck tug
um because bass or more aggressive in warm water so you're 65 to 75 degree water man i'm moving
this thing pretty fast and if you're still coming up short with the fluke and you're marking fish
below you might want to try jigging this bad boy just let it fall to the bottom and then just kind
of pull it up a little bit and let it fall it'll kind of move around pull it up a little bit let
it fall like this thing is eating off the bottom a lot of times vertical jigging will work with the
fluke and if you're still coming up short with the fluke a lot of times what i'll do is i'll throw it
out there and you can kind of walk the dog with this bad boy just like you would a top water frog
you can walk the fluke right back to you and this thing will kind of go back and forth
and man bass just can't handle themselves and so there's a variety of different ways you can fish
the fluke um on this style of rigging all right guys if you're getting value please help me out
hit that like button let's get this video out to more people let's move on i got a few more things
for you i was talking about colors really quick there's a lot of colors out there you're probably
able to buy the fluke in just about any color you want but keep in mind what you're trying to mimic
to the fish which is a dying bait fish and so what you're going to be looking for is your pearls
your smokes your shad colors so use the colors the bass are used to seeing and will want to chew on
you start getting funky with your colors it may work but my go-to's and i always
have these lined up are these pearls and these smokes that have a really great
i have a great hookup ratio bass is seamed at least in this body of water love the smoke shad
but here's the thing when i say that i also say if you especially if you fish a highly pressured body
of water there's been studies to show the bass are pretty smart and they can actually identify
allure after one encounter with it so you might want to have a couple weird colors with you
and it might do the trick for you so always be prepared when you're out there on the water
especially when you're fishing the flute maybe giving them something that they've never seen
before may do the trick that's the basics of the flukes thanks for watching good luck out there bye