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| As I was runing the poolside demo I got to see many muskie glide baits. Some glided tight, some wide. Some could go up or down, some could glide faster.
Everyone has confidence in one or another.
They all worked great, but what do you prefer.
Wide or tight glides?
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| Wide and tight glide!
It has to be inconsistant!
The perfect left to right glide produces follows for me. If I can get the bait to be inconsistant once in a while, then I can catch fish! | |
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| Well said Bill, I personally like one that has a nice wide glide so I can give it a nice tug and it shoots out to the side. With a lure of this type you can control the amount of glide with your rod tip so you can have both wide and short glides on the same cast, a short glider can not do this. | |
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| Bill is right on with this one. Consistent, slow, wide glides sometimes just get follows--but irratic often triggers! Twitch, Twitch, hesitate (suspend), wide glide, twitch, and then--contact! I suspect that both the visual variation, and the alternate signals (sent by that kind of change) to the lateral line--tends to trigger the strike reaction. I've seen this work even in darkness. Maybe it just imitates a busily feeding baitfish, for that matter. The rod action, the fisherman's technique, and even the line type can contribute to this, but only a few glider types have the design quality to make it happen. | |
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| I have to agree with you Bill about gliders that you can manipulate in having inconsistent action. It's those gliders that you can manipulate a nice side to side and than give it a nice quick head rise or dive that are killer. I feel if a glider has a mechanical or rythmic side to side without the ability to pause it without hanging up than it's not what I want. No doubt the steady walk the dog action will move fish and many come out of the wood work, but give me a bait that will trigger one biter and that's all I need. In fact, I have a lack of confidence in a glider that just moves fish and doesn't trigger a biter when I throw a change up.
Wide swinging or tight swinging baits will work nice when worked correctly. I also feel the gliders that give the belly flash or roll are dynamite in triggering fish. It's the roll that gives off the illusion of a dying baitfish and nothing does it better in my eyes than Phantoms, HR's, Amma Bammas and Mr. Schwartz's glider(Jason gave me the honor of throwing it in the pool last Sunday. I have to say it looked pretty sweet). I also feel that gliders that will sink nicely nose down and than rise quickly nose up with a belly roll are the most deadly of all.
catch ya later,
Krappie
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| For early spring and late fall, I like a bait that has a wider glide. For warmer temps I like a shorter glide bait. You can't work a wider glide bait very fast but you can scream a short glide bait. Really it's a search bait glider to me. You can get them all to change up to some degree some do it way better than others. | |
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| A tight ride is defiantly better than a wide one,, sorry[:bigsmile:] | |
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| inconsistent is better for pike. The side to side action doesn't appeal to as many pike as it does to fishermen. At least that's what I think | |
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| Fun topic.
I personally prefer a glide bait that has a good swing to it. That way, you are in control of how much (wide or tight) the bait turns and you can then literally steer it in and out of cover (ie. a topping out cabbage bed, stump field, etc.). Need to get the bait over 2 or 3 feet to avoid an obstacle.... or perhaps trigger a lurking fish? Just hammer down hard and then a quick tap to stop it where you need it. Thus... I'm a control freak when it comes to glide baits (since I prefer to snipe them in heavy cover for post-cold front fish). Also, I like a glide bait that can handle some extreme acceleration to trigger strikes. When you really hammer down on it at times... it won't blow out, spin out, or foul. However, the single most important aspect for me is what the bait does on the pause. You really need to be able to completely STOP the bait and leave it where you need it. If it fouls at that point... it will not work for me. If it sinks too fast... same deal. A very slow sinker or perhaps even neutrally bouyant (like my favorite water logged Reef Hawgs) seem to work best for me.
Watching pool demonstrations is rather interesting too. There are a ton of good glide baits out there. It seems odd to me that noone will completely STOP their lure mid retrieve during a demo to show how it behaves on a pause. Like I said... a bait may look really cool when you work it.. but its what it does when it stops moving that I'm most interested in. Since I don't use glide baits as a search tool... the speed/erratic action that looks so cool in the pool is not important to me [:bigsmile:].
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| Hey All,
I like to throw a slow wide bait
in the cold water on the Big V.
They also make a great throw back bait for a topwater. [:p] | |
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Wide glide or Tight glide?