When fastening the strip to the hook, avoid creating a crease near the top of the flesh. Cut three-quarters of the way up the middle of each strip in order to create a nice fluttering action. A pair of half-inch wide tapering strips of squid, approximately 4 inches long is the ticket. Otherwise, fresh frozen will certainly suffice. Two of your best baits for fluke are live mummichogs (killies) and fresh squid-if you can get the latter. When you’ve finished snelling your hook, forming a dropper loop for a sinker, and tying on a barrel swivel, you’ll have a rig approximately 30 inches long. A 40-inch length of 15- to 30-pound test fluorocarbon leader tied to your main line, along with a dropper loop large enough to accommodate different sized sinkers (positioned in the middle of the leader) will work well. Start with a single 1/0 or 2/0 fluke hook and two fluorescent beads: one set just below the glow squid to prevent the lure from working itself down the shank of the hook, which would thwart the imitation’s tentacles from fluttering freely the other bead set atop the artificial, serving as an attractor. In setting up your single glow squid rig, you do not need a lot of hardware or fancy hi-lo spinner rigs with a multitude of beads. Using fluorocarbon in lieu of monofilament certainly can’t hurt and just might make a difference some days. Equally important is your leader material. There are many on the market: Gamakatsu in Octopus-Red – sizes #1 to 2/0 is a favorite of mine, along with Owner, Mustad, VMC, and Eagle Claw hooks. The nice part about rigging your own terminal tackle is that you get to select what you wish, like the type of hook. They can be found pre-rigged at your local well-stocked tackle shop, along with the needed materials for do-it-yourselfers such as bodies, fluorescent beads, lines, leaders, barrel swivels, and hooks.
The past few seasons, I’ve come upon an effective rig for fluke where glow-in-the-dark soft plastic squid are a big part of the magic. Glow Squid – When doormats are keyed in on squid, you’d be hard-pressed to find any other offering that will entice them as much.Īdd the power of calamari incandescence to your fluke offering.
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