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drxfish · Jun-26-23 4:56AM

Got out early again. Beautiful sunrise. I forgot my boots, so was actually wet wading in water that was less than a foot deep. Water was up. but not muddy at all. Grass is coming in nicely.

I caught a smallie on the second cast with the chug bug. Maybe 13.5 inches. It was still pretty dark (before picture) and the front hook got caught up in the snap, so I grabbed my frog rod with a Teckel Sprinker (plopper tail) on it. That seemed too big, so I grabbed my nose hooked fluke rod and immediately started getting bites. I missed a few before catching one about 13 inches. Then something took the little split tail. I threw it back out and caught this decent smallie around 16 inches.

I hooked another smaller fish, then lost that fluke. I quickly nose hooked a Z-Man fluke and threw that out. Caught another fish around 14 inches. I lost that fluke and rigged up another little Zoom fluke in baby bass and hooked and lost a bigger fish. Then I missed one and hooked a real nice fish that I fought all the way in and it broke the hook before I could grab it.

I fixed my chug bug and tossed that a few times. I got one or two little swipes, but no bites. I then tied on another hook and wacky rigged a Yum Dinger. Got a couple bites and landed one that was around 12 inches before losing that bait. I tried throwing the wacky rig some more, but the bite was over after 6:30am. Nice hour plus of action that should have resulted in more landed, but lots of fun. Animal and bird activity was much less than my other recent outings.

Ernie · Jun-26-23 6:13AM

Keep this up and you will be getting some nice Simms waders ($1k) and Korker boots ($250)!

drxfish · Jun-26-23 7:14AM

Nope. Not yet anyway. Plus, I am too cheap for that. Waiting for the river to rise a little more to take the boat out. Had a few inquiries, but not sold yet.

hookup · Jun-26-23 8:26AM

Tried out the Zman flukes last week. Not very impressed with them so looks like Ernie's gonna get a few packs soon.

Still on the hunt for a fluke that fishes like Winco's riverdarters

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Oubassman · Jun-26-23 9:47AM

hookup wrote:
Tried out the Zman flukes last week. Not very impressed with them so looks like Ernie's gonna get a few packs soon.

Still on the hunt for a fluke that fishes like Winco's riverdarters

I have a pack of the Strike king in pearl color coming, which is the one I showed you last time. So far that is the only one that sinks as much as the WinCo. I found the grey wasn't getting the number of hits that the white WinCo would. Hoping this one does, as it has more tail action

hookup · Jun-26-23 12:48PM

Zman's weren't sinking at all. Did catch fish but I want to fish that first couple feet of the water column and not have them float

drxfish · Jun-26-23 3:00PM

ElazTech floats. You don't want that. Heavy salt sinks more too. I have some old Case SSS that I will try again.

Mhen · Jun-26-23 5:05PM

Oubassman has the right stuff. If you want a heavier, fast sinking fluke style bait with great action the Stike King KVD Perfect Plastics caffeine shads are definitely worth a shot! I have not fished them much, but know folks that really like 'em.

Ernie · Jun-26-23 5:24PM

The KVD coffee shad does work and they sink nicely. But...they don't have a split tail like George likes.

Mhen · Jun-27-23 5:04AM

All it takes is a quick cut with a knife, but that's funny as I go out of my way to find straight tail flukes! I find the straight tails have a much more natural and erratic action when fished quickly.

Ernie · Jun-27-23 5:17AM

Mhen wrote:
All it takes is a quick cut with a knife

That's what he did to my Case SSS.

Oubassman · Jun-27-23 6:52AM

So far the old split tail fluke has produced more hits than the strike King I'm trying.

hookup · Jun-30-23 7:38AM

I've been know to modify a few baits now and then ;-)

Was putting my stuff away after Canada and found a stash of Winco's riverdarters that should last me the rest of 2023 and most of 2024.

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