question for fluke bucktailers

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Originally Posted by NoLimit

If you have to wait a few seconds for the net, I have found that you should keep them moving forward in a lazy 8 pattern in front of you from side to side. So if you are bringing them in - dont stop when you reach the hull. Slowly turn them to one side and use the pole to move them round, out and back in in a wide radius.

This is winning advice.

You can fight the fish perfectly, constant pressure, steady reeling, but that pause when the fish is right under the surface can be a killer. You can completely lose pressure at that point, since you can't reel up anymore and the fish isn't exactly trying to head to bottom. You must keep that fish's head moving, or the headshakes/backward swimming commences (followed by cursing, foot stomping, and sometimes tears).

-roger