![]() ![]() The same principle works when employed on low profile rock that proliferates waters where the prehistoric glaciers receded leaving behind a bottom fisherman’s playground. Jigs, bucktails and stacked teaser rigs work very well within a reef situation that features scattered structure like tanks, subway cars, concrete or reef balls, which make up some of the common items placed on some artificial reef sites. It’s likely the fluke is sniffing around, grabbing at the tail of a Gulp or meat ribbon when the angler set up on the fish, hence a foul-hooked flatty. Experienced fishermen recognize the different feeling of a foul-hooked fish and you can see the line spin oddly in the water with each turn of the reel – more like a skate, but with the headshakes of a summer flounder. More often than one would think, a fluke would get foul hooked in the side and come to the boat with an unnatural headshake and bobbing motion. In addition, sharp hooks are of paramount importance in order to penetrate with the highest level of frequency. A solid hook-set is necessary to ensure greater success in getting fish to the net. Upon feeling weight, you set the hook hard with an upward thrust. An up and down motion of one’s wrist, in short, intense bursts, is the most common method. Dancing A Jigĭuring the slow to medium drift speeds of our morning bite, a single bucktail or the aforementioned stacked rig worked extremely well when jigged, which is the process of bouncing the bait at an extremely fast pace. Light tackle can be very effective in back-bay waters. On hot days that start out calm, this bite window usually occurs between 11 a.m. It’s the 30 minutes to an hour between the light breeze and the gusts causing a moderate chop on the surface that fluke go on the feed. In the summer, the most frequent occurrence of this phenomenon takes place when the morning stillness gives way to a hard sea breeze as the sun reaches its peak in the sky. I have observed that during the small window of time when there is a light breeze to when the fan really turns on, a terrific bite of quality fluke often takes place. The breeze started to pick up, but not before we encountered a fantastic flurry of keeper fish with a several nice “kicker” fish in the 6-pound range. The guys rapidly jigged their vertically stacked rigs to outstanding volume and many net-worthy fish.Īt about 1 p.m. This terminal set-up is one of the most popular with East Coast fluke anglers that prefer to put action to the presentation – and that we did. My crew and I bounced jigs and bucktails with dropper-loop teasers fastened about 12 inches above the jig. Often these conditions render a slow drift that can hamper a fluke bite, however on this day the speed clocked in at an ideal 1 mph for most of the morning. The wind was nonexistent and the surface was oily-slick calm, only showing the slightest texture from the occasional puff from Mother Nature. So what’s it going to be today? Sometimes you have to let the conditions decide! ![]() Aaron Wavra, Brand Manager at the Berkley “soft baits” division putting Gulp to the “jig & rig” test on the fluke grounds. ![]()
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