Rod and Line for Fluke Fishing

[MJack]

I recently starting fishing with sinkerless flukes (plastic jerkbaits). It’s a lot of fun. I’m fishing for bass. I do put on a two-way ball bearing swivel to prevent line twist and for a little weight. Any suggestions on length, power, and action for a spinning rod, and what type and pound of line? Thanks!

[EWREX]

7ft medium action with 8lb test is my go to. i’ll sometimes throw a fluke on casting gear with slightly heavier line in the summer when tossing in thicker cover 

[DaubsNU1]

6'6" medium spinning rod, with 15lb bright yellow braid to 8lb fluoro. 

[MJack]

6 minutes ago, EWREX said:

7ft medium action with 8lb test is my go to. i’ll sometimes throw a fluke on casting gear with slightly heavier line in the summer when tossing in thicker cover 

Do you use mono or fluoro?

[JustJames]

8lb Copolymer or 10lb FC, 6’10 Medium/Fast rod. I prefer fishing fluke with casting gear. I fish Fluke both fast and slow and spinning rig would get windknot fast.

[MN Fisher]

I use a 7'0" Medium/Fast rod (Dobyns Fury 703SF) with 8# InvizX line for weightless plastics of all types (flukes, weightless wacky, weightless T-Rigs, etc)

[roadwarrior]

7' spinning rod, #6 Tatsu. No weight/ no swivel.

[Finessegenics]

It’s pretty standard but my rig is 7’1 M/F spinning with 15# braid to 8# mono

[NHBull]

Spinning...braid to Flourocarbon and sometimes add a snap to keep the nose down.

 

Often add a swivel a couple feet up the leader when I want to run it a little deeper.

 

If really serious I add another longer leader to the swivel to run 2 Flukes.

[NavyToad]

7’ M/H Baitcaster, 15lb mono or 30 braid, no leader.
Line depends on which rod I pick up, I pretty much run either 15lb mono or 30lb braid on all my reels regardless what I’m doing.

[Mike L]

7’2” Phenix M1 casting rod, 12# flouo
 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Bankbeater]

I like a 6’6” mh with 15 lb mono or a 6’6” m rod with 10 lb mono depending on the thickness of the cover. 

[Hammer 4]

7'1" spinning, with 8 lb mono or fluro, I prefer mono. No hardware, no weight.

[waymont]

Loomis 752c JWR, 20lb braid to 12lb FC leader no swivel.

I use a Metanium MGL and can cast better than any spinning set up.

 

[fishwizzard]

I use a 6’2” M/XF Avid casting rod for flukes and love it.  I fish flukes pretty fast and it’s got the perfect tip for fast jerks with a quick recovery time.  The rod’s got enough power to to fish in spare pad fields and to get a bass out of a weedline.  
 

For line I use 30lb braid to 16lb fluoro leader.  I use the braid because the way I fish them puts a lot of slack in the reel and it becomes unmanageable quickly when I try straight fluoro .  I use the leader due to Pike/Snakehead and because I think having a section of stiff line helps the fluke stop more quickly post twitch.  

[jdr99a]

I generally use a 6’8” m/xf st croix bassx and a tatula sv with straight 12lb invisx fluoro. When the summer heats up and the vegetation thickens up I’ll go to 15 lb line. 

[rangerjockey]

Anything with enough tip to throw it will work. I like the Z Bone LMH and a Tatula SV

Also makes a good floatin' worm set up.

[EWREX]

On 5/6/2022 at 11:06 PM, MJack said:

Do you use mono or fluoro?

8lb invisx on spinning gear and 12lb mccoy copoly on casting gear 

[Bird]

Ha Ha answers all over the place, why I love fishing.

I throw flukes on a 6'8 med with 15# braid and Magnum flukes on a 7'3 heavy with 20# braid.

 

Why ? Not 100% sure but love throwing them and Bass love eating them.

Walking them just below the surface works best here.

[PhishLI]

4" flukes rigged on Owner Twistlock Light 4/0 get thrown on a Tatula XT 7'MF/ Tatula LT3000 CXH 15lb PP SS to a 10lb Seaguar Blue label leader, but I prefer throwing 5" SK Strike King Caffeine Shads or Big Baits 5" jerk Minnows rigged on Owner Twistlock Light 5/0 or 6/0 on casting gear.

 

Away from pad fields, but over grass I'm using a Daiwa Zillion 1000 G/12lb Suffix DNA copoly/Ark Essence 7'6" MHF. Near or through pads at their current level of growth I'm using a 2020 Lew's Tournament Pro LFS/Daiwa 30LB J8/13 Fishing Omen Black 2 7'3" MHF.