Spinning rod for zoom super fluke and fat ika

[Beboson]

Hi guys!

I search a Spinning rod for soft jerkbaits how zoom super fluke and fat ika. Reel, i bought a Stradic CI4 2500. What rod in range 200-250$?

Thanks in advance!

[Chris at Tech]

Medium power Kistler KLX

[HookRz]

Avid or Avid X 6'8" MXF. 

[Chance_Taker4]

I have my Stradic Ci4+ paired on a Kistler Helium 3 Light/Med Hvy rod. That combo is my dedicatd soft jerkbait, small crankbait setup. The Helium feels like it was meant to be paired with the Ci4+ both being crazy lightweight. My second option would be what @Chris at Tech suggested.

[Beboson]

Thanks for recomendations!

[Angry John]

How are you rigging that superfluke.  Are you nose hooking a 1/0 ewg drops hot hook or using a 4 or 5/0 ewg or round bend offset.  A good medium would work with the nose hook but driving the larger ofset hooks I would want at least a 7' medium heavy.  How you are rigging thsee baits is the key to your question.  I am currently fond of the avid x spinning rods in that price for heavy duty work.

[d-camarena]

Medium heavy for sure, especially with the fat ika

[crypt]

you could build what you want. I used a MHX med. heavy 7" mag taper blank and it works perfect.

[new2BC4bass]

I use MH casting rods, so I'd use a MH spinning rod.

[Angry John]

3 hours ago, new2BC4bass said:

I use MH casting rods, so I'd use a MH spinning rod.

Some companies use different blanks for spinning than casting.  I always found that strange but nothing seems standardized in rod building 

[Djohn]

Agree on the 7ft medium heavy for Fat Ikas. Spectacular river bait in the summer and fall for both large & smallie mouth bass. 

[Brad in Texas]

Just coincidentally, I had a Fat Ika in my lure collection I took out with me Saturday and I had broken off something else, tied it on to 10/8 braid/fluoro leader combo on a M spinning rod. 

 

Well, thusly described, let me say that a Fat Ika is slightly too heavy for a M spinning rod in my opinion. And, since the body of the Fat Ika is so thick and seemingly a tougher denser plastic, it is infamously tough to get that hook stuck really well. Yanking on a Medium power, again, might be a little weak on the required hook set.

 

To this, since the Fat Ika casts a mile, again, one often have so much line out that you likely need more rod to set the hook with the extra slack.

 

I'd go with a MH power . . . though in general I like my spinning rods powered down a notch from casting gear.

 

For 4" Keitech shad-like baits? A M power works great.

 

Brad

[OnthePotomac]

Here is my take: flukes on a 7'2" Med Carbonlite spinning rod (3.8oz) and the set up is 8lb mono to a tiny swivel to 18" of mono to a 5/0 hook = no line twist and the hook serves as a keel for the fluke.  Fat Ika on a 7' MH bait cast rod..

[SloppyJ]

No experience with the fat ikas but I throw a fluke all the time on a 6'6" M Falcon original rod. I love it. I have a stable of MH spinning rods and can make it work on that but I like the Falcon for fluke applications. 

 

With that said, go for a MH if you're looking for something more versatile. You can make a weightless fluke work on that. I have a few St. Croix MH spinning rods and that are a little more on the heavy side and I can still work a fluke great on those. 

[PatrickKnight]

I throw them both on a medium power spinning rod with braid. If I wasn't using braid I would go with a MH.

[illinifan4152]

dobyns champ or used champ extreme 703sf. braid w/ leader