hair brained flutter spoon idea

[jim m]

what if a guy took one of the bigger 5" or 6" inch ones and thru it to the schooling fish and let it flutter down below the school?  

[dtrs5kprs]

Might work at times. School fish and chasers can be awfully picky about bait size, based on the size shad they are eating. The little 1/2oz spoons match the smaller shad pretty well.

[jim m]

I'm thinking about bigger fish holding under the schools waiting for a free meal they don't have to chase. it wont be a numbers game but might produce a lunker. I know the bigger spoons work around docks at times

[Ketchup]

Tried the same technique a few weeks back with schooling fish. Tried a few schools with no takers. 

[fishinwrench]

IMO the thing with these "flutter spoons" is that IF you are in an area that is holding fish you can only jerk that spoon up 3 to 10 times before your hung up on the reason why fish are there (stumps, brush, rocks).    

You can jerk a jig or a worm the same way and actually catch something besides the debris on the bottom. 

The type of spots where a flutter spoon is the best tool for the job are pretty dang rare, and expensive to find. 

[Al Nancy]

We tried this technique earlier this week. We'd lost one of the two flutter spoons we had with us. I tied on a small white jigging spoon. Caught none when throwing into a school but did catch some laying low around the active school. Better fish than those active ones.

[Fish24/7]

7 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

IMO the thing with these "flutter spoons" is that IF you are in an area that is holding fish you can only jerk that spoon up 3 to 10 times before your hung up on the reason why fish are there (stumps, brush, rocks).    

You can jerk a jig or a worm the same way and actually catch something besides the debris on the bottom. 

The type of spots where a flutter spoon is the best tool for the job are pretty dang rare, and expensive to find. 

try using a mustad weedless treble hook ,ugly but effective, fewer snags, may wanna sharpen them a little first , some hooks are sharper than others and the wire eventually breaks off but they will save you some money in the end

put a pair on a red eye and fish it through wood or drag it on bottom,that works good too