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Location: Apollo, PA | Is it me, or is there a dropbelly epidemic going on?? Everywhere i look, I see new dropbellys from manufacturers that i have never heard of.........
Bill Looney or Jim Wilson, are you to blame????????? I really like to fishem, but its like an invasion.
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| I like them because they present a bigger profile.
Bigger profile, easier to see.
It might be fad, but I won't quit fishing them or quit making them.
I love the action of some of them, and will comtinue to use them until
I don't fish anymore.
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| Jim Wilson and Bill Looney are have been doing drop belly style gliders for years long before they were as popular as they are today. I like some of the newer stuff but in my opinion nothing compares to the craftsmanship of hand made bait. My favs are amma bama's followed closely by hr's and a newer custom lure that I like alot are smuttly dogs they are also a must have. In my opinion lure manufactures make what the fisherman want sometimes more than what they really need I feel they go to the extreme on colors and style when it is just not needed to catch fish BUT IT CATCHES THE FISHERMAN!!!!  |
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| I have been using the Slammer Drop Belly Glider for 4 years. It has been a consistant multi-species producer. Drop belly gliders will continue to be fishermen favorites because of their ease to use as well as their productivity. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | I don't know why, but the last entry by me was entered as "Guest"!?
All the colors available are more for the fishermen, than for the fish, but that isn't all that bad. If a fisherman likes a color for what ever reason that he or she may have, they tend to pay more attention to the bait, use it more often, and for longer periods of time which helps to make it more productive as well. |
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Location: Illinois | You guys putting a split ring on the Slammer Drop Bellies? I usually don't split my gliders but this seems like a good candidate. Thanks, hj |
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| I use straight wire leaders with no snaps. Therefore, I split ring almost everything.
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| I split ring all my gliders |
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Location: mpls | The first dropbelly glider was made by Earl Gretsch out of Florida in the 1930's. His baits could easily compete with todays dropbellies. Look in some vintage fishing tackle books, you'll be amazed. |
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Location: oswego, il | Food is to blame for the drop bellies. Too much food.  |
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Location: Oregon | You beat me to it Uptown, dropbellies have been around a long, long, time.
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| Todd,
I agree with you comment on too much food.. This fast food craze is terrible. Look at our old.. Look at our youth.. It was only a matter of time before THEY got to our baits... Poor things. 
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Location: lansing, il | drop belly gliders have been known to glide thru the bars late at night, one must be very careful not to get snagged by one!!!! or then again maybe hittin a drop belly glider isnt so bad. to each thier own!!!! i guess thats why they are the same shape but come in all differnt colors and patterns!!! evry fish has differnt taste!! |
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Dropbellyitis??????????????