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| Hey all,
Part of my goals for 2016 is learning how to fish glide baits. I've got a good cadence down and have the basics pretty consistent. I learned Friday how to make the lure "Dance" Somewhat and I've been practicing all weekend.
The problem:
Getting set for a night cruise on Saturday, I pull out on the lake and wind up waiting for the rest of the family to come out to a dock for pickup. So what do I do while waiting? You guessed it, grab my glidebait rod, clip on a Modivator and fire a cast out. I work it back with my newly developed cadence, and about 10 yards from the boat I can see it walking the dog nicely. I look behind it, and here she comes: 48'-50+" of big girl. Lazing along, a foot behind the Modivator letting it cross in front of her snoot. I get Muskie-Buck Fever but keep working the bait, I try to make it dance a little to entice a strike, no deal. I get to the boat and I can see the stripes on her sides. She turns on the eight and shears off into the deep.
If you are still with me, the question is, what would you do or should you do in a situation like that? Is there a technique I could have done to make the bait more enticing? I did keep the bait doing what it was doing the whole time and I know it was a lazy follow. I just wonder what you guys do in situations like that.
I only have Modivators and Sidewinders at the moment.
Any input appreciated,
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Location: MN | Always a good idea to break the cadance just crank it in fast for s few turns. Also letting it drop down use that belly wobble. I like the fast crank in to get the fish to hit. |
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Location: oswego, il | Speed up the cadence or a straight retrieve burst. In the eight just speed it up like you would a bucktail. Sometimes it is just the mood of the fish, they won't go into the 8 regardless. I see that with Indiana fish the time. |
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| I like to to let the bait fall with a wobble for a couple seconds then pick up with a fast rip and a wider glide.
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| Thanks for the input guys, good to know there are alternatives. I'd been told in the past that the side to side action of glide baits almost seems to hypnotize them.
Really like the Baits Ben, gonna get me some good fish on 'em this year...
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| I'd recite the Lord's Prayer. That's about the only thing that could get a fish to eat a glider on the 8. Seen it happen once in my boat over the last 25 years. I'm convinced that fish took the little bus to school in the morning.
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Location: Black Creek, WI | Speed up your cadence then give the lure a hard kickout... followed by a PAUSE. Classic cat&mouse. If they won't eat that.... kiss 'em good by. Figure8 success with a glide bait has been extremely low for me. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | RandalB - 5/30/2016 10:09 AM
Hey all,
Part of my goals for 2016 is learning how to fish glide baits. I've got a good cadence down and have the basics pretty consistent. I learned Friday how to make the lure "Dance" Somewhat and I've been practicing all weekend.
The problem:
Getting set for a night cruise on Saturday, I pull out on the lake and wind up waiting for the rest of the family to come out to a dock for pickup. So what do I do while waiting? You guessed it, grab my glidebait rod, clip on a Modivator and fire a cast out. I work it back with my newly developed cadence, and about 10 yards from the boat I can see it walking the dog nicely. I look behind it, and here she comes: 48'-50+" of big girl. Lazing along, a foot behind the Modivator letting it cross in front of her snoot. I get Muskie-Buck Fever but keep working the bait, I try to make it dance a little to entice a strike, no deal. I get to the boat and I can see the stripes on her sides. She turns on the eight and shears off into the deep.
If you are still with me, the question is, what would you do or should you do in a situation like that? Is there a technique I could have done to make the bait more enticing? I did keep the bait doing what it was doing the whole time and I know it was a lazy follow. I just wonder what you guys do in situations like that.
I only have Modivators and Sidewinders at the moment.
Any input appreciated,
RandalB
What you described is pretty common behavior when fishing glides. 9/10 times, when I can see a fish coming for a good ways behind a glider it will not eat the bait. Most of the fish I catch eat out, and very few eat boat side when employing the same cadence. The ones that eat at my feet are usually not ones I saw coming,I have not found speeding up the bait to be all that effective, but I run mine pretty high.
Couple things that have worked to some degree for me.....
- using a "death drop", especially on a glider with a tail like a phantom. Have had some level of success getting fish to take a bite at it.
- I have caught some fish, including a few this year already in SE WI, by burying my rod and just doing a big straight oval in a pretty quick speed. This has worked on fish that became completely neutral at my feet and kind of just sunk away slowly |
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Location: Madison, WI | vegas492 - 5/31/2016 8:44 AM
I'd recite the Lord's Prayer. That's about the only thing that could get a fish to eat a glider on the 8. Seen it happen once in my boat over the last 25 years. I'm convinced that fish took the little bus to school in the morning.
Hahaha, same here! I have caught exactly one fish on a glider in the figure 8 over the last 10 years. It took me burying my rod to the cork and doing circles for what seemed like forever until my rod just loaded up. Luckily it was in a tournament though and put us in 3rd place. I fish gliders all the time but if they don't hit out, I never catch them |
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| The best thing that works for me is to work the bait erratically. I used to keep the same cadence throughout my entire retrieve. It resulted in plenty of follows, but not a ton of strikes. One day I fished with somebody new, and he told me to work it fast and erratically with pauses mixed in, instead of consistently. Boated 3 muskies that day and never looked back. |
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Location: Mn | Much erratic behavior all the way in, it's a 3 dimensional process working it high in water column and then pauses to gain depth . Note spring is shallower game so less length on pause and alternate from a March or swim to a glide. Try to follow lure to reduce slack for bite detection. M.D Dr. GLIDE |
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| danmuskyman - 5/31/2016 5:27 PM
vegas492 - 5/31/2016 8:44 AM
I'd recite the Lord's Prayer. That's about the only thing that could get a fish to eat a glider on the 8. Seen it happen once in my boat over the last 25 years. I'm convinced that fish took the little bus to school in the morning.
Hahaha, same here! I have caught exactly one fish on a glider in the figure 8 over the last 10 years. It took me burying my rod to the cork and doing circles for what seemed like forever until my rod just loaded up. Luckily it was in a tournament though and put us in 3rd place. I fish gliders all the time but if they don't hit out, I never catch them
Moved an absolute giant the other day on a glider. Buried the rod, made huge circles and suddenly the rod loaded up!
Turned out it was just a clump of weeds, but for a moment I thought about you and your conversion! |
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