Double Fluke Rig

I rig it by running my main line through a barrel swivel then tying on a hook for the Fluke. I then tie on a 18 inch dropper on the swivel and tie the other hook on it. The rig looks great coming in, with one Fluke chasing the other, sometimes darting behind it and other times in opposite directions. Seems to attract fish sometimes when just one Fluke doesn’t.

I warned some folks in Tennessee that the rig had some problems and my tournament on Sunday at Lanier showed two of them.

I was pretty groggy after driving all night, and I started throwing that rig in shallow water at Lanier. Almost immediately a big fish swirled on it. The glare on the water was bad but I could see a Fluke near the surface and I thought the fish had missed. I waited a few seconds and twitched it again. Unfortunately, the bass had the other Fluke and when I twitched the rod tip I felt the fish - it had run back toward me. Too late I tried to set the hook but the fish had felt me, too and I missed. Maybe if I had been more alert I would have hooked it. The fish had apparently taken the Fluke on the dropper and was swimming back toward the boat and the Fluke on the main line did not move much.

A little later I threw across a treetop in the water. The water was about four feet deep and the limbs were all a foot or so under the water. Sure enough, as the Flukes came over the tree a 2.5 to 3 pound bass swarmed up and grabbed a Fluke. When I set the hook my line broke.

When I reeled in the last two feet of my line was curled like it had run over something. I looked and a Fluke was hung on an upper limb on the tree in the water. I went over and got it, after several more casts to the tree, and the one hung was the one on the dropper. Apparently the fish grabbed the Fluke on the main line and the dropper Fluke hung on the limb. When I set the hook I pulled the line through the eye of the swivel, curling it and making it break. I was using 15 pound extra tough PLine so it was pretty strong line.

I have tried a three way swivel and it works and solves some of these problems, but the rig just does not swim as good, to me, and seems to tangle a lot more.

The double Fluke rig is good and works sometimes when others don’t work but be aware of the problems it can have.

I added a tiny split shot to the main line after rigging the first hook, I'm also rigging it on braid. The flukes just look great coming through the water to just not use it. As soon as this weather calms down a bit I'll get to throw it some more.

Dave was almost stranded and sinking on the puddle pusher this morning, blown up onto a flat and water was running over the sides, an alert lake resident tied a rope to a rock and he was able to pull himself out. I wish I could have videotaped that one

I haven't fished flukes before....I understand that you fish it like a jerk bait, making it dart back and forth...is that correct? When a fish strikes, do you usually feel the fish or see the line twitch?

thanks, BD

thanks BD

I do tend to fish it faster in clearer water, and slower in more stained water.