Thanks Joe H

I remebered the article you posted the link to about fishing "Flukes", I rigged one up and was subsequently met with a hard thud. I set the hook on a 2lb10 oz lm.

I continued working the fluke in open water and took 3 more fish with it up to 3 lbs and a nasty 3 lb pickerel which left it's mark when I tried to hold him by the gil plate..ouch!!! Back out to the main lake I hit the point that I caught the SW bass on. This time there were 4 other boats(crowded on this lake) Well the next hour and a half produced 8 or 9 more fish in the 1 to 3 pound range. I couldn't help but smile as the guys fishing across from me with live bait were skunking hard. And to think that all this came from a post that no one read : )

What are you up to now.... at least 800, just counting the photos you've posted on ABPF. ;-)

Seriously, I switch to the Midnight Snack or my Gold Shadow with black and gold blades in rainy, heavily overcast days, too. Folks who write off black spinnerbaits as "night-baits" don't know what they're missing. I know of several Alabama anglers who use black spinnerbaits around the clock, and I 'spect their bass aren't really much different than anywhere else.

Joe ______________ "alwaysfishking" <Fishking@nospam.ptd.net> wrote in message news:3d2cnTT7PLl-9nTdUSdV9g@ptd.net... Thanks Joe, thanks twice. The first is for posting the picture of the Lm on abpf. I was looking to tie on a spinnerbait early this morning and it was dark and rainy. I opted for the miidnight snck with copper and gold blades. In the next half hour I had 3 LM to the boat and in an hour had landed my 4th. The spinnerbait bite died down when light took hold. It was real slow with onl 1 more fish taken on a speedworm and a small fish at that.

I remebered the article you posted the link to about fishing "Flukes", I rigged one up and was subsequently met with a hard thud. I set the hook on a 2lb10 oz lm.

I continued working the fluke in open water and took 3 more fish with it up to 3 lbs and a nasty 3 lb pickerel which left it's mark when I tried to hold him by the gil plate..ouch!!! Back out to the main lake I hit the point that I caught the SW bass on. This time there were 4 other boats(crowded on this lake) Well the next hour and a half produced 8 or 9 more fish in the 1 to 3 pound range. I couldn't help but smile as the guys fishing across from me with live bait were skunking hard. And to think that all this came from a post that no one read : )

A fellow I fished with last month revealed his own, different secret to fail-safe fluke fishing. I'll mention it here because I can trust everyone not to abuse the awesome power over bass that this hint will give them.

He uses a 3/0 circle hook run through the "mouth" of the fluke, like you might hook a minnow, and when he gets a bite he doesn't ram home the hook but uses steady pressure so the fish hooks itself. He says his hit-to-hookup ratio is almost 100%. The only downside is that he hangs up a lot when he puts the fluke into submerged treetops. I asked him about losing flukes, and he said that hasn't been a problem. I haven't tried it yet, but I think I'd push a toothpick through the fluke's head, in front of the hook, to decrease the chances of its tearing out. This is what I do whenever I use plastic frog trailers on jigs, and I've never had one pulled off since I started it. Just break off or clip the toothpick flush with the plastic surface.

Joe

Jo________________ "alwaysfishking" <Fishking@nospam.ptd.net> wrote in message news:OtGdndbqidWhfHTdUSdV9g@ptd.net...

RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing

BTW, the hookset rush is much, much greater with a tight drag. About the only things I fish with a drag that gives at all are jerkbaits and crankbaits. I don't set the hook at all with crankbaits, but I do with jerkbaits, and the rush just isn't there like it is with jigs/worms, spinnerbaits, etc., where I fish with the drag locked down.

RichZ© www.richz.com/fishing