Notaro-
Keep plugging away.
Stick with white bucktails for now... (1.5 to 2 oz is what I usually use...the lighter the better depending on the current).
TIE DIRECT TO MONO OR FLUORO LEADER. Avoid snaps.
Let me make another suggestion...
Go to the tackle shop and get some *pork rind trailers* and use them instead of the felmlee eels. I get mine at Wal-Mart or Sports Authority.
Get the smaller kind... I think 4-5 inches long by 5/8 inches.
*Use white or green during the day.
*Use yellow at sunup and sunset.
*Use red or black at night.
(Some of these colors are sometimes hard to find - which is why a full service tackle shop is helpful).
For stripers: Retrieve naturally - kind a slow and let moving water impart the action for you.
For fluke: drag that jig and pig on the bottom (assuming sandy area) and occasionally "pop" it up off the bottom. When you feel the hit rips his lips off.
Bucktail jigs are basically castable flies - they are so universally effective that they are issued as military survival gear.
-WW
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