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Gapen Flicker BT - Bottom Trolling & Vertical Jigging Spoon
The Gapen Flicker BT (Bottom Trolling) is a specialized version of the legendary Flicker spoon, optimized for bottom trolling and vertical jigging. Its unique design delivers strong flash and seductive action that attracts walleye, salmon, lake trout, and other gamefish in deeper water.
Cast it, let it sink, and work it with snaps or steady retrieves for aggressive reaction strikes. The BT version excels when you need to keep your lure near the bottom or in specific depth zones.
Key Features & Benefits
- Bottom Trolling Design - Optimized for keeping lure near the bottom
- Exceptional Flash & Action - Triggers strikes from walleye, salmon, and trout
- Versatile Presentations - Great for casting, jigging, or trolling
- Proven Effectiveness - Popular for deep water and vertical jigging applications
- Gapen Quality - Durable construction from the Gapen family since 1936
Whether you're trolling big water for salmon or vertical jigging for walleye, the Flicker BT is a reliable performer that gets results.
Made in the USA - Authentic Gapen Tackle craftsmanship.
How to Use the FLICKER:
Gapen's FLICKER is used in a similar fashion to a lead head jig. Action given the lure is ot lift and lower the lure in irate movements with a "twitch" and "roll" in between lifting and lowering.
Because the lure is made of a light tinput material, an environmentally safe metal, and has a slight bend to its body, the Flicker has a natural, side-to-side motion when lifted and lowered.
By reviewing the diagram, we'll take the angler through "How-To" use the Flicker in deeper waters.
A and C represent the lure as it is dropped towards bottom. Once bottom has been obtained the angler should lift the Flicker off bottom--twitch it a couple times--then retrieve a turn or two on your reel handle. After the flick or twitch, allow the lure to settle once again, but not quite all the way to the bottom (leave a foot or two). At this point, flick the lure once again and lift upwards. Depending on where the targeted fish are in the water column, this same action is repeated all the way to the surface.
If such action does not produce a strike the entire process is repeated once again at the point marked B. Points B and D represent the retrieved track of the Flicker as it is brought back to the surface. This erratic action of the Flicker represents the movement of an escaping baitfish or a wounded minnow.
To increase the attractiveness of a Flicker, the angler may elect to tip one of the treble hook's barbs with the head (only the head) of the area's most-used minnow. This manuever will add a desired scent to the bait.
When working trout and bluegill, add a maggot to a 1/32 oz. size. For crappie and perch, add a minnow head to a 1/16 oz. size. For smallmouth bass, add a tiny piece of crawler to a 1/8 oz. size. And, for walleye, striper, lake trout and largemouth bass, add a minnow head to a 1/4 oz. and 1 oz. size. The Flicker can also be just as fatal on northern pike.
Surprisingly, this is an extremely effective lure on all salmons, brown trout, and lake trout in the 1 oz. and 2 oz. size. It can be casted, allowed to sink, lifted and retrieved, then allowed to settle once again. Such a retrieve represents a wounded baitfish attempting to revive itself in the water column.
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