Take a look , it’s interesting . Where would a person do this type of fishing around the SC coast .
Never done the double rig with a buck tail, but if I target Flounder using artificial, it is always with a double rigged white curly tail grub.
I like fishing locks on incoming tide in old rice ponds/ duck ponds. I always seem to have a short window of super great bit to nothing.
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I know they fish like that up north in certain spots, but I haven’t seen anyone fish like that here. Depending on the current, I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t work here. We’ve trolled for trout for years…
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Folks have been casting jigs rigged like that for years on Clarks Hill for LM and probably stripers.
Zoom Flukes are very popular.
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Many years ago a cousin of mine from Surfside showed me how y’all used mud minnows catching flounder down there , we had fun doing it then . We never used plastic or double lures at that time . What surprised me was how the fish would hold on and swim with the bait being pulled . Skinner said on other videos he would not even know a fish was on if not for the camera . He has several up fishing several ways . I have been watching them at times for a couple of years , cool .
I have caught lots of bass in the upstate here using double Zoom flukes , they will hit it a lot of times when a single won’t work
I sure hope I make it down there this year to get in the salt and try some catching . I have been looking at campers lately . Don’t know why cause it would be hard to pull a camper and a boat .
How about some of you give this a try and report back .
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Thanks Easy but I don’t think the wife would stay in a tent . I have a regular tent I used to stay in when going to Santee Cooper . I tried talking her into a slide in truck camper , she still said no . What’s a man to do
I often rig a fly such as a clouser or deciever on a 12" dropper loop behind a gulp jig. Works well for reds and trout too.
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Sounds like a winner Larry , I’ve heard of others doing the same for freshwater critters .
I went to Hartwell yesterday just to get out of the house and and older man and a young guy was catching brim from a dock . The older man was going to a pay lake to catch catfish , the younger kid lost what he said was a 40+ catfish from the dock we were on and the week before he caught a 65# cat using bluebacks . He said he never realized fish were that big there . Think I might get some bait and take the boat out myself . A blueback with a gulp trailer might get some attention .
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Ha , don’t think that ideal didn’t cross my mind
The action on the two rigs he’s using are terrible! They look stiff…
He needs some elaztech!
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I’ve caught many flounder in the chesapeake on buck tails and trailers … had just as much luck here with just jig heads and paddle tails but have used gulp on jig heads and caught em as well just bouncing off the bottom. never had any luck with buck tails here… but i came across this video a while back which might answer your question…
ainthateful Good video . I liked the one . The Cape lookout one in Moorehead city would be a nice trip . I always wanted to go there and ride on the beach , camp and fish .
Thank you , Pox
Awesome video. That is the #1 rig up here around the Chesapeake for flounder (well, you have to call them fluke here…) Coming from Charleston, I didn’t believe that rig could really be that effective or I would have heard of it, but man they work!
I would think flounder habits have to be pretty similar anywhere, so I’m sure it would work around Charleston. I always caught more flounder in shallow (less than 10 ft) in SC but up here it’s usually drifting over 20-30 ft. Not sure if that’s just because of where I fish or if the fish actually prefer deeper water here.
In Texas we used a similar rig fished fast near the surface for speckled trout. Go figure.
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Originally posted by OptikerThe action on the two rigs he’s using are terrible! They look stiff…
He needs some elaztech!
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Amen…I love elaztech.
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The action on the two rigs he's using are terrible! They look stiff...
That seems to be the nature of the Gulp products. It works well for some applications, but I haven’t found Gulp to be better than regular plastics for those types of “action” baits. With grubs, flukes, etc. the movement is the attraction, and I’ve known many guys who swear by specific brands because the plastic is softer & has better movement/action.
I’ve caught a lot of different species in the Chesapeake on a bucktail & teaser/fly or a jig & grub with a teaser/fly like others have already mentioned. The two jig rig works well too, but I never liked casting them. A jig with a fly/teaser is easier to cast IMO, and doesn’t tangle as much if rigged properly.
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Coming from Charleston, I didn't believe that rig could really be that effective or I would have heard of it, but man they work!
It seems to me that sometimes locals get set in their ways, and that limits what’s used or popular. Not a knock on anyone either, I’ve seen it up in MD & other places too & not just with saltwater fishing. I’ve known some folks I used to fish with up there who only trolled bucktails, even small 1/8, 3/16 or 1/4 oz. ones and the rest of the time they bottom fished with bait. That’s the only way they fished. When I mentioned trying anything else, like casting bucktails or spoons they scoffed & said it wouldn’t work.
Sometimes folks are just stubborn, others don’t know any other way to fish except what they’ve always done.
Have you ever trolled for Flounder, Trout, etc with a jig & floating diving lure like a Rebel Minnow? I’ve cast such a rig, but again no
Interesting - I’m sure it will work. I’ve caught a bunch of stripers-white bass - perch using double rigs. A bucktail and a inline spinner.
I also know a old double flounder rig is better than a single. The Sea Striker Fluke rigs convinced me of this. A minnow on a hook with float and weighted spinner on a bucktail tipped with a minnow. It works!! Run out of mud minnows and went to gulp and a SeaAssin shad. It worked. I will file that info for next trip!
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Has anyone else ever drifted with strips of flounder belly or any other fish? It was fairly common growing up a bit north of here, but I’ve never heard of it much down down this way. We mostly used strips of sea robin or bluefish bellies, but I would think strips from most any fish would do. It’s been a looong time, but I seem to remember the ones we caught that way we’re on average bigger than ones we caught drifting other baits, usually sand eels/squid combo.
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