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Originally Posted by reason162
Esp the 3oz+ jigs we use for fluke in deep water...you really have to reel down
until that rod tip starts to load before hitting them. After that it's having your
net guy ready and not letting the fish break surface when they do all sorts of weird
dance moves lol.
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This right here. And if you're using mono it's that much tougher than with braid. Your gear may also be a little light. If you have a 4oz jig tipped with a 6" swimming mullet plus bait and you're fishing with mono on a light rod you could have a tough time getting that hook home into the hard mouth of a bigger fluke. A captain I fished with out of BL years ago had us fishing medium power 7' 1/2" rods with 4k size reels spooled with 20# mono. When we had to move up to the 4oz jigs because the current picked up he stressed that we had to take all the slack out and really hammer that hookset because the mouths on the 4-7 lbers we were catching were tough to penetrate and they could really clamp down on that jighead.
