I am planning on rigging up a weightless Zoom Super Fluke Jr. What Rod, Reel, and Line is best? I skip it around a lot of wood up shallow.

I like a spinning set-up. 6'10"-7'0" medium/fast spinning rod with a spinning reel of your choice spooled with 8lb fluoro.

I use two setups.

 

1. 6'9" M/XF Spinning with 15lb braid and 8lb test floro leader.

2. 6'10" M/F Baitcaster 7 to 1 reel with 12lb co poly.

I use a medium light spinning rod and 15lb braid mono leader

This is what I use as well. I always always have a fluke tied on one of my rods and found this combo works the best for me. Something about that ml tip? Power? I dunno what it is but I get the best hook ups with this setup. I think it lets the fish get the bait in its mouth, you feel it, yank and hooked.

I use a medium light spinning rod and 15lb braid mono leader

Not a whole lot different.

I use 1 of 3 outfits for weedless fluke fishing, the rod size is predicated on the cover I have to pull the fish out of.  I go with the lightest I can get away depending on the conditions I'm dealing with.

All the above do well. 

 

One thing I'd recommend, since I've had this issue.....

 

If you retrieve the weightless fluke like a T-rig worm or something....basically anything where you are stroking the lure.....take the time every few retrieves to do a long cast and just normally retrieve the fluke.

 

With the stroke method, you're essentially putting half your line back on the reel with tension, the other half with very little tension. This has caused me headaches in the past. You'll get some bad tangles sometimes. It drives me nuts. There are some retrieval methods that can help alleviate it, but nothing completely foolproof I've seen. 

 

Just a word to the wise....

I'm right in line with lmbfisherman in that I use both spinning and casting for weightless fluke style baits. I use a 6'9" M-XF spinning rod and a 6'6" MH-F casting rod, the spinning rod I se both a 4" and a 5" version but it is when I use a light wire hook in open water or sparse cover and skipping under overhangs. I use the casting rod with the 5" and 6"  and I use it with a heavier wire hook in moderate to heavy cover.

For years I have fished weightless with a m/f 6'-6" rod. This year I am changing over to a 6'-6" or a 7'-0" mh/f rod. I fish from the bank a lot and that m rod just didn't have the backbone when the bass went into the weeds.

Let me add that if you are going to use a spinning rod, add a tiny swivel 18-24" in front of the bait and it will eliminate line twist.

I go with a 6'8" MXF spinning setup with either 20 or 30lb braid, with no leader, depending on which rod I use.  I haven't noticed a huge issue with line twist but the advice to do a few long casts every once in a while is a good one that can save some headaches down the road.  I tried throwing them on a bait caster but i just wasn't a fan.

for around wood i use a 6'6 medium falcon BuCoo spinning rod with an abu garcia orra s with 30lb power pro

If you're going to be throwing into a lot of wood cover you need to go up to at least a 7'0" Medium heavy rod IMO. I would also use a fast speed baitcaster so I could get the fish turned and coming up and not letting them wrap me up into the wood cover.

I fish it on the same rod I would fish a stickbait on. Lately thats a TWR 802 with a chronarch 50 and 10 lb. flouro.The rod has enough tip to cast easily and enough butt to move the fish.

Jr's on a spinning medium fast

Super on almost any mh I have with fluoro

In the past, I've thrown full-sized Super Flukes on my Dobyns 683c with 12 lb fluoro.  I've had an odd fascincation with spinning rigs the last few months so I picked up a Kistler KLX 6'9" MF spinning rod with Stradic FJ 2500/10lb braid which will see Fluke duty this spring.  Looking at the rod specs online, I was hesitant as it was rated for 1/8 - 1/2 oz, but Trey Kistler assured me that the rod is a bit beefier than the rating would lead you to believe.  Based on my playing with the rod in the basement, he appears to be right and I'm looking forward to fishing this rig.

I use two setups.

 

1. 6'9" M/XF Spinning with 15lb braid and 8lb test floro leader.

2. 6'10" M/F Baitcaster 7 to 1 reel with 12lb co poly.

 

I believe I use the same exact spinning setup, assuming that's a Fenwick EliteTech.