Thank you Fluke "wonder rig"

[briansnat]

Recently someone here posted a video of the so-called "fluke wonder rig". I have thank him. Hit Sandy Hook Bay today with a friend. My fluke fishing experience is limited to maybe 4 outings over the last 30 years. He's been fluking much of his life. I rigged a rod with the "wonder rig" with a killie on the end and he was using his standard rig with a killie and a strip of squid.

30 minutes into our first drift I had boated 3 keepers (biggest 25 inches) to nothing on his line. The next drift he got a short, a dogfish and a sea robin and I boated 3 more shorts.

By the end of the day I had about 15 in total and he had about 8, but most of his were after he switched to the "wonder rig". Alas, after me going 3 for 3 for keepers we got nothing but shorts.

Going forward this will be my go to rig for fluking. My only change was leaving the hook on the jig. No way am I cutting the hook off a $6 Spro bucktail to make it a fancy sinker. Besides I thought maybe there is that monster fluke out that that might prefer the jig.