Fluke Insights - amazing underwater video

[Arbutis]

Fluke Fishing Video Link

This was a lot of fun! I put together some fluke fishing video clips shot with a Water Wolf underwater video camera. My intention is to show some of the benefits of using the Wonder Rig for fluke - particularly in the bays and rivers. I hope you like it and hope you learn some stuff like I did while observing these fish in their natural habitat - it's pretty incredible stuff.

[slammer]

Cool video.I'm going to use the wonder rig next season.

[makosnax]

If you trim the hair on that jig it won't interfere the action of the gulp and you will see you see a lot more hits on it.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Another great job with the video Doug. Thanks for sharing it here.

[Arbutis]

Originally Posted by makosnax

If you trim the hair on that jig it won't interfere the action of the gulp and you will see you see a lot more hits on it.

I've use hairless bucktails with gulp, gulpless bucktails with hair, bucktails with haircuts, jigs without hooks (to reduce seaweed accumulation), cannonballs, straight bank sinkers and everything in between. The killie ALWAYS wins - as long as it's not unnaturally weighed down by a heavy hook or heavy leader.

[wrktoomuch]

Very cool Doug.

[RussH]

I wonder, the videos I've watched you always seem to be in the shallows. Does the killie still out fish the bucktail on 30 or 60 or more feet of water. Before the Bucktail craze I used to fluke fish with live killies exclusively. Bucktails and gulp seems to work better and I tried your rig last year with little luck, but it was much deeper water and I'd have trouble arguing your success based on these videos. I was also using a much larger 2/0 hook. A size 4 while clearly working seems too small for Fluke with their huge mouths.