As a result, you need more weight to stay down in the strike zone. Dragging your sinker rig or lure behind the boat results in a planing effect that causes it to rise up off the bottom. With no resistance to the current or the pull of the boat, the lighter payloads get down to the bottom easily and stay there. By casting into the direction of your drift, you can make your lure remain basically stationary by simply keeping up with the slack in your line and jigging it in place, or you can move it as slow or fast as you want by the speed of your retrieve.Ĭasting into the direction of your drift, whether it is controlled by wind or current, allows you to fish smaller offerings which can frequently mean the difference between limiting out or putting up a goose egg. It allows you to adjust your rate of retrieve, hence the speed at which your lure moves along the bottom. Besides making catching fluke a whole lot more fun, it gives you the ability to cast. First of all, since you will rarely need payloads of more than an ounce for most inshore situations, you can rely on light spinning tackle for presenting your offerings. If you are one of them, you are sacrificing some of the greatest advantages to fishing with artificials. I’ve seen plenty of folks dragging a bucktail tipped with Gulp in their wake.
Rather than dragging your offering in the wake of your boat or a party boat, you have the ability to cast with artificials, which in many cases means you will catch more fish. If you prefer to be more interactive, then artificials are the way to go, for a lot of reasons. Now, if you’re content with drifting lazily along while dragging a sinker and baited hook, by all means have at it. For those reasons, it can’t hurt to be prepared to deliver some kind of natural bait when headed out for fluke.įor the most part, a bucktail or leadhead tipped with a scented bait like Berkley’s Gulp or FishBites will get the job done.
And while many quality fluke have been caught on bucktails tipped with a scented soft plastic, doormats often find it hard to pass up baits like a live snapper or bunker, whole squid, bluefish fillet and other large, meaty offerings. That can be the case early in the season when cool water temperatures cause the flatties to become less aggressive. The fact of the matter is that there are times when fish, including fluke, want meat. And despite the success of these imitations, there remains a place for the real thing on its own, or in combination with a bucktail or leadhead. Most of the focus is now on bucktails and an assortment of leadheads dressed with scented and unscented soft plastics. Over the past decade, there has been a noticeable shift from the longtime tradition of dragging baits like spearing, killies, squid and fish strips for summer flounder, to the use of a wide array of artificials. Savio Mizzi with a 12-pound doormat that nailed a 1-ounce bucktail tipped with Gulp, proving that big fish will eat small baits. Fluke fishing may not be as simple as it once was, but it can sure be a lot more fun, and more productive to boot.
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