Flap tail retrieve?
Fishboy19
Posted 5/8/2013 9:06 AM (#639951)
Subject: Flap tail retrieve?





Posts: 299


How do you guys retrieve these lures?
Thanks
wicked
Posted 5/8/2013 9:25 AM (#639957 - in reply to #639951)
Subject: Re: Flap tail retrieve?




Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-)
Probably some variation in wich one you have but really slow works for me.
Medford Fisher
Posted 5/8/2013 10:01 AM (#639965 - in reply to #639951)
Subject: Re: Flap tail retrieve?




Posts: 1061


Location: Medford, WI
Great question....I've never had one before but am also curious how people use them?

In thick vegetation? Just like any other topwater? Over openwater? Who knows.

Just a steady, slow retrieve?

Thanks, Jake
jdsplasher
Posted 5/9/2013 6:41 AM (#640180 - in reply to #639965)
Subject: Re: Flap tail retrieve?





Posts: 2315


Location: SE, WI.

Flaptails are retrieved at a slow to medium pace. You want the tail to kind of flip flop on the surface. Slap the surface at a staggered cadence. If tail is spinning like a buck tail, then the bracket is set too low in the water .

 JD

sworrall
Posted 5/9/2013 3:52 PM (#640269 - in reply to #640180)
Subject: Re: Flap tail retrieve?





Posts: 32935


Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Slow to medium, a steady paced retrieve. Rough water, even whitecaps is absolutely fine. So is calm water.
dzgolf2
Posted 5/9/2013 6:16 PM (#640301 - in reply to #639951)
Subject: Re: Flap tail retrieve?




Posts: 35


Good video of a well-made FlapTail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQY08pAWXOo