Spro Techniques

[ryanh908]

What are the preferred methods you guys use? Constant bounce, bounce and sit for a few secs?Also what are you favorite things to tip them with? This would be for fluke fishing. I am relatively unexperienced with these and could use some tips to prepare

[Hotrod]

Good Post

[IrishAyes]

Vary your retrieve till you find what is working. At first I will cast out and do a slow retrieve with a little jigging action. If a few retrieves like that don't work, I will retrieve, stop, retrieve, stop and continue like that. Sometime it is slow retrieve, a couple of quicker turns of the handle then slow again.
Vary till you find what they are attracted to.

I usually tip the spro with a strip bait, whatever we have fresh. A lot of guys here like the gulp to sweeten up the pot. I haven't had too much success on the gulp, but that is probably because I don't give it enought time to produce.

[Skolmann]

Everyday is different.

Sometimes they like a slow bounce, other times a more erratic bounce. Vary your technique until you see which provides the most action.

If you're fishing around rocks, wrecks, snags etc., keep the Spro moving don't drag it across the bottom or you'll get hung up (you'll get hung up bounce it as well but not as often).

One tip I picked up a few years ago is to take about 2-3 cranks up once the Spro hits bottom & have the Spro a few inchs off the bottom. Use a slow undulating motion to provide life like motion to a long strip bait on the Spro. Fluke have no problem coming up off the bottom to grab your bait. You also wont get hung up as frequently.

If I'm fishing the bay or river I tip my Spro with a 4" GULP swimming minnow/mullet or a single spearing or a small bait strip. In the ocean I use a 4-6" bait strip

[ped579]

All good remarks and techniques.  For this time of year all I can add is to try different colors as well.  White seems to be working at this time off the beaches and jetties tipped with either a white or chartreuse 4" swimming minnow.

If fishing off the jetties try to keep your lure off the bottom as you get closer to the rocks and you will not get too many hang ups.

[Luna Sea 5]

put a large bait on it and slow bounce it off the bottom.  I wouldn't move it any quicker then a nice drift speed if your using it for fluke. 

[blynch]

jig your rod tip up sbout 2 ft every other jig, and vary the jigs in between.  tipping with a squid, minnow, or a gulp.  For weakfish, use a gulp or soft bait.  Actually, softbait6s can work for fluke too.

[gottog]

From shore I like to cast out and work it along with the current making short hops or cast out and work it back to me by jigging it back...basically raising the rod an inch and drop  back down a half inch.  Once I get to the 10 o'clcok position and drop rod back down and reel in the slack then repeat.

From the boat I try to cast ahead of where we'll be drifting and work it through the drift as long as possible.  If you can work it back to you against the drift, that can be killer at times.  I basically do a quick snap, then a slight drop, nothing too drastic.

You can tie a ropper about a foot above the bucktail and hang a "teaser" hook there.  Anything from a baited hook to soft plastic will work.

Been tipping bucktails with soft plastics for a long time and do pretty well.  Started out with Gulp freshwater stuff and once they came out witht he SW version, that's all I've been using. 

[ryanh908]

Thanks guys - great info
Cant wait for the 24th

[wb]

Good Post

 

be consistent in varying it up    til you find what gets them to bite. Chartreuse seems to work best overall but sometimes not at all. A little jiggle in addtion to the drift outcatches a dead stick in most cases

[gottog]

Could also book a charter with Capt Allen on Reel Class
He's pretty good at putting his fares over bucktailable fluke and good catching them that way himself

[catfish hunter]

SPRO'S are great bucktails but they are on the pricey side when you loose 50-100 a season ,I started making my own this year and they cost me next to nothing to make ,we do around 400 in 2-3 hours then you can paint them the way you like and tie up the hair colors that work best for you

[catfish hunter]

a days work on these can pay off I do alot of glow colors then I mix it up a bit

between fluke dud capt. joe and I we poured over 700 this winter and we have high hopes for this season

[Skolmann]

I frequented a venodr at afew of the outdoor shows over the winter who made a Spro-like bucktail (similar to the ones pictured by Catfish Hunter).

At the Somerset Show I picked up 40 for a total cost of only $45.

I have his card at home so I can always buy some more.

If there's any interest I can post a picture(s) of them tonight and pass along his info.

[Still Running]

I frequented a venodr at afew of the outdoor shows over the winter who made a Spro-like bucktail (similar to the ones pictured by Catfish Hunter).

At the Somerset Show I picked up 40 for a total cost of only $45.

I have his card at home so I can always buy some more.

If there's any interest I can post a picture(s) of them tonight and pass along his info.

That would be nice if you can, I need to get some.
Thanks

[IrishAyes]

I pour them myself also. Have molds to make up to 8 Oz jigs. After I pour them I pass them off to a friend who paints and ties the hair on them.

When I do the whole thing myself I use powder paint on them and then put hair on them.

Easier for me to pass them off though. 

[Skolmann]

I frequented a venodr at afew of the outdoor shows over the winter who made a Spro-like bucktail (similar to the ones pictured by Catfish Hunter).

At the Somerset Show I picked up 40 for a total cost of only $45.

I have his card at home so I can always buy some more.

If there's any interest I can post a picture(s) of them tonight and pass along his info.

That would be nice if you can, I need to get some.
Thanks

Will do.

Should have it up by 10 tonight.

[gottog]

I pour them myself also. Have molds to make up to 8 Oz jigs. After I pour them I pass them off to a friend who paints and ties the hair on them.

When I do the whole thing myself I use powder paint on them and then put hair on them.

Easier for me to pass them off though. 

Theresa won some of yours at the banquet
Passing them off to my rod-builder to tie up now

[IrishAyes]

Good luck with them. 

[wb]

Nice work and pic Catfish
very colorful

I won some too, will try dressing them up myself. Time's a-wastin'