Flutter Spooning With Sand Bass, Shiners and Salmonids

We’ve enjoyed several great sessions at Lake El Salto where a flutter spoon has produced numbers of fish, including some big’uns. Most of the time we’ve used some sort of chrome or shad-patterned spoon – partially because that’s what we had, and also because they work well as a universal baitfish imitator. However, one of my favorite crankbaits down there is a Strike King XD Series in “barfish.” In fact, a 10XD in barfish produced my El Salto personal best. I don’t know why it works, because to the best of my knowledge there are no yellow bass or white bass anywhere nearby.

Nevertheless, just like chocolate and peanut butter, sometimes two great tastes taste great together – so I set out to see if I could stock up on some flutter spoons in a pattern that resembles my crankbait confidence hue. Here are a few:

MESU Fishing UV Flutter Spoon

Yellow Bellied Bar Fish

Nichols Lake Fork Flutter Spoon

Sand Bass

Nichols Ben Parker Magnum Flutter Spoon

Sand Bass

But what if you fish in Florida and want to chase some offshore bass in the rare deep water schooling spots? Consider a golden shiner spoon:

Nichols Lake Fork Flutter Spoon

Golden Shiner

Berkley Vibrato Jigging Spoon

Natural Golden Shiner

And that’s not all. If there’s a baitfish, you want to replicate there may be a spoon at Tackle Warehouse that has you covered. Check out the following pair:

6th Sense Flutter Spoon 120

Live Crappie

Bigbait Spoon

Trout

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