Crappie Fluke Mold

[Lines]

Sent an order today for several needed items. Included was a Do-It round head jig mold 3506, and a Do-It 2 1/2" Crappie Fluke Mold.
Does anyone have any experience using those 2 molds together? Will they match up well for crappie baits?
Thanks!

[ctom]

Use the 1/24 head with this bait and use a #4 hook in the head. They fish nicely.

[Lines]

Never fished very much for crappie, so don't have a lot of know how to target them. The area we live in now is crappie heaven.
I am hoping this will be the rig to get me onto them. Thanks for the help ctom.

[efishnc]

Hey Lines-

If you are going to start really targeting crappie, I would also recommend the thumper fry as it has been my #1 plastic for open water panfish... although I can catch fish on other baits as well, the vibrating tail (with the minnow profile) just seems to get more bites for me.

[efishnc]

And for the record, I LOVE the crappie fluke as a drop shot bait... it's so versatile (easily modified) that I can make it work for almost any situation.

[Lines]

Thanks for the tips efishnc! We have so many lakes and rivers surrounding us here that it's almost an island.

[efishnc]

It sounds like you have a little slice of heaven there, so I'm guessing you won't be thinking about moving back any time soon (if ever).

[ctom]

And Lines....if you get the tail mold for the fluke, it works stand alone as a great crappie bait too. 1/32 head

[Lines]

It sounds like you have a little slice of heaven there, so I'm guessing you won't be thinking about moving back any time soon (if ever).

Probably not moving back north. I did enjoy living in Iowa. Grew up on the Missouri River in St. Joseph, Mo. Loved that as well. Moved to the south to retire in some warmer weather. Accidentally fell into this area. Coosa River, Weiss Lake, Neely Henry Lake, Logan Martin Lake, Guntersville Lake, Tennessee river are all within an hour or less.
Working for 2 more years and retiring.
Actually 1 year, 10 months, and 7 days.

[Lines]

And Lines....if you get the tail mold for the fluke, it works stand alone as a great crappie bait too. 1/32 head

Funny you mentioned that. I ordered the tail mold too.

[efishnc]

Right you are Tom... although I prefer the 1/48 minnow head (with the tail turned sideways).

[ctom]

That's the beauty of using the tail piece stand alone, you can fish the tail vertical or horizontal. I too like the tail rigged horizontally in most cases.

[ctom]

And for the record, I LOVE the crappie fluke as a drop shot bait... it's so versatile (easily modified) that I can make it work for almost any situation.

The fluke is right at the bottom end of a decent size for walleye too. I've taken several nice walleye while crappie fishing the fluke, all in fall's cold water. I didn't make it out in the boat this last fall but have no doubt that jigged vertical on current seams the fluke would be a dynamite bait for cold front applications given its shorter stance. I have a few color combos soaking in Gulp juice in my ice bucket right now and plan to give them a try on the next river outing, probably tomorrow morning.



These are Junebug/chartreuse but the color doesn't show too well in the picture. This color has been the steadfast producer of winter walleyes for me for years fishing from a boat, followed by firecracker/chartreuse....which is in another bag in the bucket. Where we've been ice fishing there is a steady current so we'll see how they do.  The junebug/chartreuse in this bait was a super during last fall's crappie bonanza I happened into so if the waldos don't chew'em, the crappies next spring will. 

[efishnc]

To me, the reason to have the crappie fluke mold is for the tail portion (give or take a little)... by its very design (the thicker taper leading out to the end of the tail), it gives off better vibrations when dropshotting, which most times is specifically what I'm looking for.  If I'm looking for more wiggle (such as when fishing clear water), then the fat fork would be my dropshot of choice, but most of the time I'm fishing stained waters.

As far as easy mods, I like twisting it at a segment line (for a clean end to melt) and joining it with a larger body to up the overall size while keeping the tail.  Below bottom is the original crappie fluke, the middle has the tail spliced with the body of a 3" OG grub , and the top one has it spliced with a tango tube.