Fluke rigs and techniques

[blaruffa]

IMO I use Chinoteauge Rigs, with 4 oz sinkers. For bait. I was squid, very small eels, I wil will also catch scup and filet out into ong strips. They like that as well.

Fluke like sandy bottoms. Find a nice sand bar and start your drift off of it. You want to current to push you over the bar. Fluke like to sit pointing into the current on the bottom and wait for the bait to be pushed over the bar so they can pop up and grab it.

Good luck, they put up a great fight.

Also I have caught large fluke bouncing a bucktail jig over the sand bar as well.

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by blaruffa

IMO I use Chinoteauge Rigs, with 4 oz sinkers. For bait. I was squid, very small eels, I wil will also catch scup and filet out into ong strips. They like that as well.

Fluke like sandy bottoms. Find a nice sand bar and start your drift off of it. You want to current to push you over the bar. Fluke like to sit pointing into the current on the bottom and wait for the bait to be pushed over the bar so they can pop up and grab it.

Good luck, they put up a great fight.

Also I have caught large fluke bouncing a bucktail jig over the sand bar as well.

The really big fish like hard bottom around structure.

[ThomCat]

Estuary channel edges like those in Pt. Judith Pond and river mouths and breachways will produce some surprising fish on a dropping tide. It's not always "deeper for keepers"