My "big fluke" catch ratio has REALLY hit the shitter the last few seasons and I'm not going to make excuses besides I just might be losing interest in our local fishing. HOWEVER, I have watched MANY of my friends on many of the boats I fish on from Brooklyn to Montauk beat the tits off fluke with Gulp baits. Gulp mullet and ESPECIALLY the 6" "woims" doing the majority of the damage! Main colors being pink, pink shine, chartreuse, nuclear chicken & white. Now, I'm not excluding myself from this group, I've caught TONS of great fluke with Gulp baits and I cannot think of a single bait I've ever fished that can outperform it from 5' of water to 90' of water and everything in between.
I've been using GOTCHA 5 & 6" grubs for almost 20 years when I first started to jig fluke and was excited about that design because the fish loved them. I remember using "fluke balls" to get them on bottom and thinking, "Hey, we have a great new way to catch these fish!" When Gulp came along I was very skeptical about the claim that a bait dunked into the saltwater would be able to "maintain" a scent & consistently catch fish. Needless to say, I was proven wrong...VERY wrong. Gulp is the most significant thing to happen to fluke fishing since I began doing it almost 40 years ago. I wish my friend Anton's father was alive to see it. He was a VERY PASSIONATE fluke fisherman, long before fluke jigging was a thing and I know he'd be tremendously excited to catch fish the way we do today.
Several years ago when Pete (Lep) turned us on to the 6" pink shine bait he couldn't stop singing it's praises and we eventually started to employ the baits on every trip. Our success rate went through the roof and we have never looked back since. From what I can see, there is no bait on the market that comes close and regardless of what it's made of, I'll be using them and catching fluke with them!
When I get that 10+ you boys will be seeing the pics right here on Lep's board!!
I'm still waiting for mine! Nice one.
