The Nichols ‘shattered glass silver and gold’ looks just like a bunker and is the author’s go-to spoon in the western Sound. One of my favorite designs is the ‘shattered glass silver and gold’ finish available in the Nichols lineup, it’s a perfect color for matching the colors and flash of a dying bunker as it flutters, helplessly, to the bottom. Each spoon has its own unique features along with a wide array of colors and finishes and rigging techniques, as well. Since then, many other companies have joined the mayhem and come out with their own flutter spoons such as Tsunami, Tony Maja, Josh’s Tackle, Jigging World and more. The 9-inch Nichols Magnum Flutter Spoon Ben Parker Edition was the one that you could find in almost every shop in the Northeast by the end of the 2022 season. It seemed whenever we left the dock we’d see other boats with rods rigged the same way, one with the spoon and the other with the 9-inch Doc. I knew I was never going to leave the dock without one rigged to my rod and ready to go. That day, I continued to pound bass on the Nichols 9-inch Magnum Flutter Spoon. The spoon got smacked before I could even engage my reel and I was hooked up. I reached for my rod and reel and dropped the flutter spoon straight down into the school of bass. My sonar lit up like a Christmas tree when I got to the reef. It was early May and bass were moving through the Sound in big schools. This is a prime spot for intercepting big migrating bass as they make north and east into New England after spawning in the Hudson River. When I first used a flutter spoon, it was at buoy called 11B, a deep water reef located in the middle of the sound between Eaton’s Neck and the Norwalk Islands. A wounded menhaden falling out of a thick school baitfish is something that a large striped bass will never pass up and these spoons look just like the real thing. It wasn’t long before saltwater anglers saw the potential of replicating dying bunker, and the results more than speak for themselves. The large spoons flutter and dart at random as they descend through the water column, replicating the erratic movements and flickering flashes of a dying baitfish to a tee. These spoons were originally designed for freshwater bass fishermen who were trying to mimic dying shad in early winter. What is a flutter spoon? In very basic terms, it’s a big piece of flattened steel with a 5/0 saltwater grade treble hook attached with a large split ring. The flutter spoon has quickly proven itself as a trophy catching machine, here the author’s fiancé, Lauren Salvioli, hefts a ‘real one’ that thumped a big spoon. They were so effective, that they began to draw comparisons to another lure that changed striped bass fishing, the Big Doc, in fact, many striper fishermen have since nicknamed the flutter spoon the “underwater Doc”. Flutter spoons were the hot ticket for targeting big bass last spring. If you were on a deep water reef last season in the Western Long Island Sound, odds are high that you saw anglers pumping their rods to the sky and dropping the tip, quickly, back down to the water. The newest ‘must have’ lure for anyone that hunts trophy inshore striped bass. The author with a solid spoon-fed striper taken in western Long Island Sound.
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