Need a Flukin' lesson,,, Macojoe ??

[macojoe]

I am far from the master!! and anyone who has some good techniques need to chine in!!

I find that the sandy areas are were they are. The smaller fish will be in the shallow water 20' to 40'

I look for drop offs, just when your line goes over one you will get slammed!~!

The bigger fish like the deeper water!! 40' to 100' They also seem to like some kind of structurer, like a wreak or something of that nature.

For the smaller fish I use a Floro leader of 30# about 36" with a squid skirt, and squid strip. With a fish finder with anough weight to hold bottom.

The bigger fish like big bait! I like to use 4 to 5oz Bucktails jig's tiped with squid.

The trick with jigs is that you want to try to hold the line stright up and down!! If it gets to far away from you it just does not work.

Bigest Fluke is 13 pounds, taken on Live Scup drifting for Bass.
I have repeated this a few trimes with smaller fish 9 & 10#
But this means using the smaller scup like 4 to 6 incjes which is illeagle in most places!! Mass it is 9" commercial and 10.5 for recreational.

Color skirts vary from white, yellow, to glitter

other bait, sandeels, Mackrel chunks on the big ones, mummy chubs, clams, but by far the best bait is fresh Fluke Belly!!

Hope that helps