I'm wondering if I should've thrown that out a bare swim bait yesterday. I threw the whole kitchen and the sink at a wolf pack of 3-4 or possibly even bigger and couldn't get a bite or even any interest in my lures. and they were shallow chasing bite sized bluegill. those or a chatterbait swim jig. who knows.
Thats how a small LuckEStrike bubblegum trout worm has been for me on ultralight, in one spot on Saturday i got a Largemouth, Perch, Crappie and Bluegill all from casting between 2 fallen trees in the shallows
They work year round also great in middle of winter and great in middle of summer 2nd most versatile bait in my soft plastics you can Texas rig them weightless and fish them like a soft jerkbait also you can fish just like any other Texas rig bait reel up let it glide to bottom also there great trailers for spinner baits and chatter baits I also use them nose hooked on my dropshot they crush it nose hook it also I Carolina rig with a fluke they have a awesome action behind that ball and chain they move so smooth and look just like a baitfish
Y’all should try just the plain “the fluke” (not the super fluke). Excellent bait to wacky rig, you can twitch it like a dying baitfish or even swim it along and make it look injured. Also just nose hook it (sideways through the head) and toss it out, jerk it and watch the very lifelike natural action it has. I use a 3/0 EWG Gamakatsu hook for all of this, same hook Debo was using.
You said a hook keeper with grass. Another trick is use a bopper stop. You run in up the hook to that last bend in the hook. Makes for a great bait keeper.
Love the super fluke. I use the light wire hook as well for both my flukes and senkos. I fish them on both spinning and casting rods with really no preference. That Tennessee shad is a nice color. The colors are sometimes difficult to tell when looking at online pictures.
My last fishing trip all were dinks. One of them escaped through the holes on my net so it's not just you. If you were using Googan they would've all been huge. Were you fishing on a Gnaturday?
Love when you do "Mr Hands", that's where I learned to fish a baitcaster and deal with backlashes, tie some knots, rig lures, and decide what to fish...thanks Debo & Mr Hands!
Love throwing flukes. Sometime I find missed hooksets on a ewg hook. I bought the new Owner Haymaker in a 3/0 and I have yet to miss a fish this year besides one that I missed right at the boat. Ewg profile with the straight penetration advantage of a flipping hook.
Try the Arkansas shiner and the pearl white and thank me later, I've caught alot of bug fish on the Tennessee shad mainly big smallmouth, but I'm telling you now I have caught some dang taod in the baby bass, Arkansas shiner and pearl white, mainly for me pearl white but if you ever learn how to fish a fluke it's dangerous I've caught a many over 8lbs, but get you a light spinning combo, 8lb line, fluke with a 3/0 gamugatsu hook and hold on. You have to channel your mind to hunt for the big ones if possible, and with aflukenyou can catch the big ones trust me, and yes i said it 8lb line, got a buddy who catches big 8+lb bass on 6lb line, your drag and taking your time is your best friend I just like it cause it lessens the chance of fish getting spooked by your line if they happened to see it, give it a shot and thank me later.
Hey comment section.. quick unrelated question: Are you using barbless hooks? My local pond has AWESOME FISH but I'm spending a ton of time getting my hooks out. Anyone go barbless?
Flukes are absolutely a confidence lure for me. Open water, grass, pretty much wherever for about 8-9 months of the year here in TN. I do adjust the size/gauge of my hook to adjust sink rate though, sometimes even using a very light belly-weighted hook. I have used the super fluke a bunch, definitely in the TN shad color, and I have used the 6th sense version of a fluke-style bait. My only issue with the majority of these out there, is that (much like a Yamamoto senko) they just don't last long, and I hate just buying and throwing away loads of plastic. Other than zman stuff, (which might act differently due to the buoyancy of elaztec), has anyone found a fluke bait with good action and decent durability?
Hey, awesome Vid! If I can’t find a hook with a keeper on it. I put the plastic up to the eye, and run a tooth pick through it. Cut the sides off, And stays really well. A little trick, to help peeps out, on a budget. 👊🏻
Never used a fluke before but it’s on my list of things to try. Not sure how well the free rig would work from the bank. I have never pegged my Texas Rig and am can’t recall if you prefer pegged or unpegged. At any rate, if you prefer a pegged T-rig, I’m guessing you wouldn’t enjoy the free rig.
I wish I had more choices for bank fishing in my area. Unless I want to drive for an hour or more, each way, I only have 3 or 4 locations within 20 miles or so, and they're all heavily fished. One of the previously reliable locations has been overtaken by nesting cormorants so there is no forage base anymore. I've managed to catch 1 rock bass in 5 trips so far this season. Looks like it's gonna be a long year!
Don't apologize Debo, it's so hard to not catch small ones when they are biting well. I will throw at them until they stop it's so addictive. There are so many bassin days when I have said even a bream bite would be welcomed. Don't knock it.
I’ve had several trips full of dinks. The worst part was, I had a dink on the hook and he knocked the bait (a Yum Dinger) up the line away from the hook while fighting, and then a solid 3 pounder voraciously attacked it but there was no hook in it so it swam away and left me to land the dink.
If you like fishing frogs then go to rodgers lake or to dudgeon. At dudgeon you gotta hike passed the bridge to the T and fish the water there. Bring leaders because the pike will blow your frog up hard and it's bye bye froggy without a leader.
Dude just got my first frog in heavy cover big lay down next to it was thee most fun most addictive thing I’ve done lol hell no one heard from me for 12 hours was on the water frogging 5 rods n all I did was frog with one I love it
Zoom Tennessee Shad is my absolute favorite color for flukes and paddle tails. Great minds...! And you're definitely not alone, I had a dink fest last night, but at least the quantity was fun.
I have been having a ton of luck with weightless flukes but your idea on rod and reel is awesome been wanting to try lighter lures on baitcasters ao I'll give it a try brother. Thank you again
New to fishing so I'm ignorant, but a lite medium heavy rod sounds a little oxymoronic...nonetheless you convinced me to try the weightless fluke on my medium spinning rods!! Great video as always Mr. Debo
It's essential a half step down. So think of it as a "lighter" MH but not quite a medium rod. It is a bit confusing but that's what we get with no universal language between all the rod companies 💁♂️
great vid. i enjoy making the 5" flukes as much as throwing them. the @epicbaitmolds fluke jerkbait is an excellent mold. OBTW, deebo, your color correction layer in the last few videos is toggling on and off before jump cuts. i can't figure out why, but it seems to be not one big long color correction layer and maybe a correction on each clip that isn't aligned maybe? donno, but i figured you haven't spotted it yet.
@@DEBOSFishing my first reply was deleted for some reason, but around the :41 mark, the color shifts from a contrasty, color-rich setting to a washed out look, and it does it repeatedly back and forth throughout the video. It looks like a color correction layer is not on all the time, or is only applied to individual clips, but not aligned properly. i can send you some photos through instagram if you aren't seeing the shifts.
I’m a bit of a nerd with my super flukes. When I first get them, I take them all out of the bag and put them back in, arranged so they remain straight and flat. First one goes in upside down on its back, second one goes in right side up with its belly down against the first one’s tail. I arranged them head to tail that way, and since there’s 10 in a bag, I end up with 5 right side up and 5 upside down. They stay straight this way. I don’t use many colors of them so it’s easy to maintain it with just 3-4 bags.
"Is it s fluke that I am catching them on the fluke?" Came for entertainment and got philosophy, make sure we are sitting down before you get us like that bro! I caught probably something like 30-40% of all the fish I caught last year (500+) on a fluke, rigged weightless on a 4/0 Owner Offset Round Bend worm hook, all in probably a 30-45 day period in the fall, I like a spinning outfit, 15lb braid to an 8-10lb mono leader, absolutely lethal option, great episode my friend!
Been a Fluke fan for decades now!!!! Super Fluke and original Fluke are different and I'm an "original" fan mostly. I like the old white pearl color but the newer flukes aren't the same. Old ones float somewhat but the newer ones do not. I modified every one of the original ones I throw. I prefer an Owner hook as well. Damiki are nice but you will go through some money with the nicer hooks. I throw both baitcaster and spinning gear. I prefer the spinning gear for distance and stealth. Baitcaster is strictly Super Flukes. I'm not trying to be quiet when I pick it up. I have used a nail for weight but I like em weightless best!!!! Baby Bass is a good color during summer but I will throw a Green pumpkin in a heartbeat. Carolina rig???? Oh yeah, that's a Big Bass Lollipop!!! Once upon a time, I had methialate. Way better than pink, by far. But I love a good fluke bite all day!!! Dinks are welcome as well!! It ain't fun unless there's a few " coma cosies" to get you going 😉. I've been on the Ned Dreds bite and it's been weirdly wonderful. They haven't seen one before and it's caught every size out there. Biggest is 4 lbs. so far. I'm hitting new water this week, can't wait to hit some old honey holes. Lake was renovated and it's been good lately. They're fixing to stock it in a few weeks but I'm after the old stocking that has been there a while. It's going to be phenomenal!!! Thanks for sharing 👊👊
Z-man did a collab with strike king to make a small fluke bait called the z-too and it has absolutely slays for me in moving water. I hook it onto the googan drop shot hook because the mono bait keeper keeps it pegged nicely, tie it onto a 8lb mono, and as soon as I see my line move I’ll count to 2 and it’s over for that feesh. I’ve had bass, crappie, and some big bluegill eat it so it’s definitely a de-skunker when times are tough
Hey Debo! Awesome content as usual. I have to give the Googans a prop here....the new Blazin Worms are fish catching machines. They aren't durable at all, but damn do they catch fish! Tight lines brother and thanks for all you do to help people get out there and catch fish!
Enjoy the rig breakdowns Debo. Super easy cheap way to keep fluke from sliding down the hook.... push a toothpick thru the head of the fluke & the eye of the hook & snip the toothpick off. Won’t last forever, but works pretty good.👊
Sup debo. Great video. With economy it's hurting a lot of us because forced to use what we have, even hooks I know don't need a heavy hook but have a lot, because of surgery havnt been out a lot and usually stick with drop shot a lot. After pick area apart, small area on bank when have to stay in chair lol...ty tc
Yo Debo if you have spare old mono laying around anything over like 30lb test, take some and pierce it through the fluke and through the eye of the hook and youll get more fish per bait. some people use toothpicks I just use 50lb mono
I love that talking hands view. I wish you'd do more of those, especially with your unboxings. I was a bit bummed, I didn't read the title (I watch everything you post so it didn't matter)... so when you started with the frog I thought this was gonna be your 50 fish frog day you were talking about. Waiting with bated breath.
Great video! I really liked the explanation of all the tackle that you used including that rod at the end of the video I found that to be really helpful. Thanks DEBO👍🎣
Pert-n-near, 😂 my grandfather used that term all of the time. I have been made fun of for using the term from time to time. I love it, your videos are great and I learn so much from your videos. Thanks so much!
That was a good day of bank fishin. We just had an amazing weekend here in Western Pennsylvania only about half a dozen fish that would have been Keepers in a tournament. But we got 60 between the two of us most of them in the 12 to 14 inch range
I just started fishing with flukes and see how they would be tough lures for bass to resist. I am using the heavier wire 4/0 Superline hooks when I want the flukes to sink faster (deeper) and lighter wire hooks when I want them to sink slower.
