Is this the beginning of the gulp killer?

[george]

The Imposter and the Fluke Drift

A visual hypothesis about floating Super TPE, water-based Gulp, and the way fluke hunt above a sandy bottom.

stories.noreaster.com

 

[Snapprhead27]

Interesting article.

 

[pequa1]

It is interesting. After a John Skinner presentation at least several years back at WMHS Expo, I went out and got a 6' Tsunami Slimwave and a Daiwa BG2000 (of course he was using more expensive gear) to better enable my usual 3 hours of jigging a bucktail teaser Lep rig without getting carpal tunnel lol. Previously I used a heavier reel on a heavier rod. Backbay kayak fishing productivity for me increased a bit. I only use Gulp! unless livelining a snapper in late summer so the constant motion my wrist imparts seems to work for me and am no longer tempted to buy spearing and squid and drag it. That same day at WMHS Capt Paduano introduced a snap (?) jigging method that seems to work but I was afraid I would roll the yak trying to yank it like that, lol. Just like bad weather, not worth a fish.

 

[Matts]

Do they really think we drag our gulp on the bottom?
Sure, fluke eat shrimp, but there seems to be something with the long, wavy undulating motion that attracts fluke.
If your goal is durability, there's fish bites. Some like it and I keep trying it, but I've done better with gulp.
Also, there are some days where color seems to be everything.
I'm not selling short on Berkely yet!

 

[pequa1]

Do they really think we drag our gulp on the bottom?
Sure, fluke eat shrimp, but there seems to be something with the long, wavy undulating motion that attracts fluke.
If your goal is durability, there's fish bites. Some like it and I keep trying it, but I've done better with gulp.
Also, there are some days where color seems to be everything.
I'm not selling short on Berkely yet!

Me either. I haven't been dragging baits since 2005 when I found kayaking and gave up buying spearing and squid lol. Besides, I have three years worth of Gulp! left and probably a lot more what with the paucity of fish so far.
while I am partial to just pink and white, my best fish last year came on a gaudy, orange and white dressed buck with a pink Gulp mullet tip. Maybe it just found a color it liked ?

 

[george]

Do they really think we drag our gulp on the bottom?
Sure, fluke eat shrimp, but there seems to be something with the long, wavy undulating motion that attracts fluke.
If your goal is durability, there's fish bites. Some like it and I keep trying it, but I've done better with gulp.
Also, there are some days where color seems to be everything.
I'm not selling short on Berkely yet!

A lot of people drag their gulp on the bottom. Try it. I think you'd be surprised. Anyhow, not sure how you can write it off. It is Rappala, and Crush City is killing it in freshwater! Sometimes the smallest change makes a huge difference.

I will absolutely be trying it on my next fluke trip. I'll report back and let you know how I made out.

 

[MakoMatt]

I could not begin to count how many good Fluke I’ve caught on a dead stick pole. Perhaps not quite dragging as I usually try to set a dead stick rod so that the line is taut and hopefully the motion of the rocking boat is making it jig a bit. And we have harvested plenty of good ones too that were definitely dragging.

What I thought was a joke was the “field of vision” a Fluke supposedly has. Like the fish is a fixed object and not capable of movement of both body and head to see the world around itself.

 

[george]

So much for that. You can't even buy them.