Best Hybrid Striper Lures-Large Flutter Spoons

Best Hybrid Striper Lures-Large Flutter Spoons on Lake Tawakoni will put huge Hybrid Striper in the net, just ask Guide Cliff Thornton!  Large Flutter Spoons have been around for a very long time!  In the past 4-5 years, largemouth bass anglers started to catch big fish and win tournaments.  “To be sure, fishing a 2-ounce, a 6-inch hunk of metal can be intimidating. Still, there is a time and place where giant flutter spoons will be the best option for catching deep-­water bass. Elite Series pro Kelly Jordon has spent more than a decade perfecting the art of eliciting bites with the oversized lure. Embrace his system, and there is little doubt you’ll be making room in your tackle box for this heavy metal” Source Steve Price Bassmaster Magazine

Best Hybrid Striper Lures-Large Flutter Spoons and Lake Tawakoni

Lake Tawakoni Fishing Guide Cliff Thornton knows if Largemouth Bass like Large Flutter Spoons, so will Hybrid Striper, Striped Bass, and yes even White Bass!  Yes, anglers Lake Tawakoni has some monster white bass and they will eat a 4-inch to 6-inch flutter spoon!  If your local lake has big gizzard shad, Hybrid Striper are eating them every day! Large Flutter Spoons will match that hatch, and fall in the water column like a wounded bait fish!  Watch the video of a 4.5-inch flutter spoon falling in the swimming pool and imagine a school of white bass injuring big gizzard shad that fall into hungry Hybrid Striper for lunch!  The bigger Striper and Hybrid Striper set up below the smaller schooling white bass and wait for dinner to be dropped to them.  The key to large flutter spoon fishing success is patience!

How to Fish Large Flutter Spoons for Tawakoni Hybrid Striper 

Large Flutter Spoon anglers must be patient.  Let the flutter spoon fall to the bottom (20 feet)!  Make sure you keep your rod at eleven o’clock.  If you want to spoon to fall proper rod position is very important.  Don’t get lazy and lay the rod down to the water!  With your rod at eleven o’clock and your large flutter spoon on the bottom, crank your reel three or four times, pause, and release line and let the spoon fall.  Make sure you control the descent of the large flutter spoon.  Most of your strikes will come on the fall.  Too much slack line and you will miss a big Hybrid Striper!  Make sure your first cast away from the boat you watch your line as the big flutter spoon falls.  You can miss big striper on the fall of your initial cast if you are not paying attention!

Best Hybrid Striper Lures-Large Flutter Spoons Tips

The best hybrid striper lures-large flutter spoons tip is to use a high-quality swivel!  You are going to throw a chunk of steel that’s 6 inches long and weights two ounces, then rip it off the bottom and let it fall!  Without a high-quality swivel, your line will twist up like a birds nest at the end of a trip!  Consider adding a dressed treble hook on your Large Flutter Spoons and you will put more Tawakoni Hybrid Striper in the net!  If you want to add some weight to your large flutter spoons, buy some 1/8oz bas casting sinkers and put one on your treble hook split ring.  This allows you to fish the lure vertically like a giant slab spoon!

Large Flutter Spoons and Lake Tawakoni Top Water Hybrid Striper 

Can you fish a 6-inch two-ounce flutter spoon like a topwater plug?  Watch the shad popping video above and get ready for arm ripping action with Lake Tawakoni Fishing Guide Cliff Thornton!  When you see Tawakoni Hybrid Striper pushing big shad to the surface and out of the water, cast your large flutter spoon near the action and reel fast!  Keep the flutter spoon in the first foot of water then stop and point your rod tip at the surfacing fish.  This puts slack in your line and makes the spoon fall and flutter like a crippled gizzard shad!  Now keep your rod tip pointed at the water and reel fast, stop, throw the slack line and let the spoon fall again!  Lake Tawakoni Hybrid Striper love this presentation and you will too!