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!

Medium power Kistler KLX

Avid or Avid X 6'8" MXF. 

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.

Thanks for recomendations!

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.

Medium heavy for sure, especially with the fat ika

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

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

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 

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

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

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..

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. 

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

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