Best Fluke (Flounder) Fishing of the Season! - New Rod/Reel Review 

Another awesome trip guys. Picking my boat up tomorrow and can't wait to get out there. I will definitely be using your suggestions to help catch some quality fish.

beautiful day on the water, good guys, lots of laughs, lots of fish...thanks for sharing!

John's videos and books have 10x'd my fishing production. I havn't been out-fished since I read "Fishing for Summer Flounder"

Love it, great video. Hope you keep em coming.

Tremendous performance, just killing it! It seems all of Long Island's Fluke have headed East this year. Great job guys!

The Jon videos are the best. Cracking me up!

I really enjoy your episodes, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience

Wow, you guys Rock! You have really had some good flounder fishing trips this year.

Big fish on a beautiful day and flat seas!! Were all jealous!!!

You New York boys are spoiled with the fluke fishing, great trip!

John- another great video. Last week I tied up the same rig that you use in your fluke videos, used the same jig tactics and hooked up to my PB fluke! You rock!

“Forget the camera. Make sure you get the fish in the net.” 😂

Awesome trip! Loved the fish steal at the end. LOL

Epic trip John!

John I used to suck at fishing. I watch and watch your videos and I slayed the fluke on Sunday. Thank you.

I love your vids and have been watching them for years now! im really interested in your book... meep up the good work!

ALL HAIL!! King Skinner!! Lol. Great outing!

That's so much fun! 4 John's but there was one Catching John lol

These waters hold an abundance of big fluke!! This year jersey & party boat flunking has been a letdown. Great video. This is like fluke paradise

That was a great trip, and nice to see Halk bounce back! I’ve also experimented on my last trip with the boys and paid for it. If there’s any experimenting it should be when the fundamentally basic stuff fails. I learn the most in times of failure.

Really like Skinner videos, informative, @ fun to watch! From Shooter in Danbury, Tx.

Man would kill for a day like this!

Nice fish

Real cool I love fluke fish I’m at Jones beach a lot or up on the north shore in Port Washington keep it up!!

Yea feel my rod! ~ Skinner lol 😂 hilarious

that was one of your best

I'm all about shit talking among fishing buddies, but seriously guys....HE LITERALLY WROTE THE BOOK ON FLOUNDER FISHING....what do you expect!!!!...Can't wait to get my hands on the new accurist!!!!

Nice boat

Hey John I work for terminal takle in kings park New York and your book is ate best seller at the shop

I love the videos. I copied your technique and tie my own similar rigs to yours. So far this has been my best Fluke fishing in years. Caught 4 keepers (out of 11) 3-8.75lbs last Monday.

Very fortunate, tail netted it more than once and got it!

Love how it ends with Doc arguing over the points for the fish Halkias stole.

Ha ha! The ball busting is the best part of the video.

god i miss my boat, nice video john

Awesome Video! Congratulations *Fisherman.* Have a great week of very successful! Hug!👍🎣🐟🐠

LOL Skinner, Awesome!

I so envy you getting to fish for "flatties" of these sizes, John. The UK's flounders are crap by comparison with tiny mouths. So much so that a 3lb flounder would be a rare fish for the majority of us! Oh yeah, I was SCJ video this morning on the new SPRO bucktails you were consulted upon. VERY nice looking toys that I can only hope make their way over to this side of the ditch.

John living in Wildwood Crest year round I love watching your videos and reading your books! Hopefully one day you’ll come south and we can "“ hook up"

I want to see more of your little boat

Big net..... let's not mess around! Hahahaha nice job!

That looked like a good fishing trip. I was shocked you didn't catch any other fish besides fluke though.

John, can you post a video or point me In the direction on how to cut a rod down a couple inches and install a new eye? Love the videos ! Thanks

Blu J just ordered two of the new rods.

Ya had me at “all kinds a stupid shit “ 😂

I wish we have flukes in my area. We have sand dabs, basically a tiny flounder. You have to catch several of them just to make a meal.

Could you throw lighter than the recomended 1oz or is that pretty accurate?

What kind of structure do you look for these fish?

John, I wonder if you’d be able to show some underwater video of the difference in jigging rods and jigging styles. Your style vs John halkius’s less successful style, with descriptions on the differences in the rods. I’d be fascinated by that, not to make more work for you, though!

ur a legend

Love these vids. Question: With the rapid jigging you use, are you bouncing the larger weight (bucktail) up and down off the bottom, or just wiggling the teaser while keeping the bucktail on the bottom?

John do you think the nexus would be good for slow jigging?

Hey John. Love your videos. Learned a ton from them. I know you sometimes shorten your rods to get the feel you want. Maybe a how to video at some point of the process?? Thanks!!

Awesome trip John! Is it safe to say The Nexus is a better rod for 5-5oz bucktails with that 4inch cut. Not so much off the rack?

Poor Doc, I was rooting for him with that big fish he lost

You said you cut off the first 4 inches of the Nexus. In what orientation did the new guild get remounted, since this rod has spiral wrapped guilds?

What rod do you reccomend/ use for 2-4 oz jigs??

Thanks for the entertainment! Heckling and joking, you guys are awesome! start rating your videos PG for language!

whats the over and under every year on how many rods Doc breaks?

Lets get some numbers for off montauk!

I have no words. You guys put me to shame every time.

Feel my rod 😱

Hello John. I’ve been reading about bucktails in your summer flounder book and it totally makes sense about the placement of the eye for vertical jigging. I always use SPRO for this application. My question is can you use those same bucktails for casting from the surf or kayak? Otherwise I’d look into the andrus bucktails. I’d appreciate your thoughts on this. Thank you.

Hey John I heard you say again you cut 4” off the rod I’ve done the same with one of mine with a hacksaw but how do you do yours do you cut right above the eye and file it down or replace it with an end eye

“Just get the big net, forget the camera.” Lol

Great video John. If I may, I'd like to ask a rig question. When using a jig & teaser combo should both be identical in color? Also, how do you determine the color you use on a given day? Is it weather type, time of day? Thanks.

Do you recommend the Tsunami Trophy 6' 8" Heavy Conventional Slow Pitch Jigging Rod with the Quantum Accurist 100HPTA & Jigging World Power Handle Combo for fluke fishing?

Hi John, I want to get a new spiral wrapped rod and am torn between the jigging world rod in this video 701H and the Tsunami slow pitch 761XH rated 3.25-7oz. This JW rod maxes out at 6oz, and saw your comment that it is on the money with tip mod. I really don't want to hack another rod and even if I do concerned it wont be enough. I regularly need 3-6oz bucktails (S&S swing hook of course) and mostly fast jig and sometimes need to switch to 8-10oz of lead and concerned this will be too light. Which rod would you recommend? Jigging world also has the 761H rated for 4-10oz but concerned that might be too much rod for my weight range. Thanks for you help and great vids, been very helpful.

Hi John, I have the tsunami H model with 4 inches cut off and can jig 3 to 4 ounces with it, how does the nexus compare to that?

Great video. How do you keep the bucktail at the bottom when jigging so fast? Maybe I'm missing something.

Hi John. Thanks for all the videos and BTW I purchased your Fluke Mastery course. I noticed at 21:13 that the knob of your J+H Tackle Quantum Accurist Power Handle is missing the chrome cap . Did your knob come off suddenly in your hand as you were cranking? If so, did you post it on youtube? I would love to have seen your reaction because I purchased the same handle off of ebay and that happened to me on the first trip using it. Luckily I had a second setup that I was able to use. I purchased another handle and the exact same thing happened again. I wrapped a layer of Scotch tape over the spindle and jammed the knob tightly back on and it has been holding so far but I have to be careful to not let saltwater get into the bearing. I see that J+H now has a disclaimer on top but I don't think it is a rare occurrence.

I hope this isn't a stupid question are drifting or anchored above some structure? How fast are drifting in this video? Nice fishing .

Amazing video and trip. Thanks John Do you feel its worth hitting some of the early season spots we fish in may and June to try and pick up some fish? I have a smaller whaler that wont be comfortable running to Montauk. I'm in the GPT area. Thanks for any input.

Did you have to separately buy the long handle for the. Websites don't show S3 with handle like the one you are using. Please advise.

Council of Johns killing it. Hide your fishwives.

John will this rig work in a surf casting scenario?

Great trip, how many feet of water were you fishing?

Hey John, the tsunami rod you link to in the info section of video, can that handle an 8oz sinker if you are in deeper waters in Long Island off Montauk in rougher weather? Or is just for like a bucktail lure of about 4ozs? I am a novice at this, just ordered your book btw!

John, What tackle shop cut down your nexus rod 4" ?

Do you have a link for the reel

John Skinner= The Fish Whisperer

why doesnt John have his own show on msm

Do you ever fish with vintage or your older equipment (or maybe just reels) just for fun?

Today I caught my first fluke on a Bucktail

I’m going on a charter this weekend and wanted to know what color gulp I should use?

Halkias, Skinner may kick you off your own boat if you don't get your netting game right!

I see a lot of rod holders up there ,did Doc add some to make you happy?

John " Feel my Rod" Skinner

What type of rod is Skinner using. Specs??

FEEL MY ROD !!! LOL

Why don't we keep a net at each end of the boat???????

Wow,,, John that was awesome. Why won't the guy beside pay attention LMAO!!!. He is really not going for the fish. How many times did you tell him to stick with the normal technique?

Without spot killing, can you guys give us some idea of where you are?

Hey John thanks for posting all these. I have learned more watching your videos than all the years I have spent with a rod in my hands. I am looking for a good all around rod and reel for fluke fishing as well as stripers. What do you think about the 6.5 tsunami slow pitch paired with the quantum Accurist?

Never heard skinner curse so much at mr. Halkias. That’s weird haha. But understandable. Sorry halkias. Your revenge will come soon. One of you guys will outfish skinner some day. But overall great video. Thanks mr. Skinner. I just converted my 7ft heavy Tsunami classic and cut the 4” from the tip like you did. Will try it out soon enough. Btw are those new Quantum accurist S3 baitcasters come With the flipping switch? Looks like it

Why do you use the grubs over the swimming mullet

you guys mostly hold the rod in your right hand and switch over to left when a fish is on so why not get left hand retrieve reels? i got one and it feels normal because my right arm is stronger

Does the nexus replace your Tsunami rods that you used to use?

What is the depth you guys are fishing in?

I'm surprised your friends didn't throw you overboard for hogging all the fish. Lol

Is that nexus rod underrated? It says it can jig 2-6oz