74Formula233

I typically fish bucktails of various sizes/styles.

Back in the good fluke days, where you'd fill a damned commercial tote in no time, we used mostly Upperman and Smilin' Bills, with NO trailer. Bailed the shit out of em on those.

I still use both style jigs, plus SPRO jigs. But I do usually use a trailer these days, skirted or not, with a Kahle style hook.

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AlloyToy

Years back when there were a ton of them we'd fish small crippled herring jigs and whack em pretty good. I fish Thom Cat's now with the spinners, or the Mario jigs

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74Formula233

The Marios make a good dead-stick rig

I almost always (unless I have a totally full boat) hum a Mario's rig way out off my medium spinner, of a different color then what I am working. Not only does it help test the day's color preference, if there is any, but it offers a different action, and I have caught a lot of fluke on the dead-stick lol...covers more ground on your drift

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Scup

I think the biggest thing in favor of large catches of fluke is the grounds. Many of the current crop of commercial pin fishermen have licenses in NY, CT, & RI. Last year they really hit them hard in RI. I only hold a CT license so it is not worth it for me to ride all the way out to RI waters for a few fish. Some small commercial boats were coming in consistently with 100 pound catches with only one or two people aboard. When the closed days in RI happened, they simply moved into CT waters for those days. They did not do well in CT. These commercial hawks are really good, but put them on poor grounds and things grind to a halt. There was not enough fluke around for them to make a go of it. Probably, the reason for poor catches in Southeastern CT is there is not much left after a dragger makes a couple of passes. I will probably bitch at what the CT DEP is going to do to 2008 fluke regulations, but in my heart I know something has to be done help out the fluke. There has been just too much pressure placed on them!

jahootie

what ever the hook is used by atlantic lures in the glow daddy, i think is the best have caught fluke to 26 inches and the hook usually stays set it is a great rig everyone should try it

PG

If possible could you guys post a picture of the fluke rigs you use.

I googled glow daddy and all I can say is that glow daddy is for a whole different kinda fish

Bob & Mag

We make our own rigs and have experimented quite a lot over the years.
Had as many a five squid teasers in a row, used heavy bucktails instead of a sinker etc etc.
One of the most effective component(readily available) that we've found is the little spin'n'glo. It takes very little current to move it and throws off tons of flash. Put one on then a bead, a bucktail and your snelled hook. Lots of colors and variations for components. Half the fun is trying out something new and the rewards can sometimes be great.
The rigs are locked up in the boat under cover, but I can take some individual component pictures and line up what we use together if you like.

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flukeyou

I use just a classic fluke rig. I have found that even useing a larger 4/0 hook, I still hook alot of shorts. The best way that i have found to limit the numver of shorts is larger bait. I use a whole frozen spearing, it limits shorts and keeps the porgies away.

bdfishguy

we use all octopus style hooks on our rigs (Gamakatsu 5/0) work great!

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flukeyou

Im going to have to try a few rigs with the octipus hooks. I usually just tie them with 2/0 or 4/0 wide gap, like this. Is there a benifit to the different hook.

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