| There are surface, subsurface, slow sinkers and fast sinkers. Most are used in a walk the dog pattern.(Swim to right on a jerk and then left on a jerk) Which style you use depends on Muskie location in the particular lake you are fishing. Surface gliders would include (in no particular order) Viper topwater, Jackpots, Docs and Dancin' Raider to name a few. Subsuface gliders would be shallow running baits such as Shallow Manta, Reef Hawg, Eddie, Teddie and Mr Automatic to again name a few. Slow sinkers would include Slidin' Shad, Undertaker, Cobb Crazy Shad, Spitfire, Amma Bamma,Slammer Drop Belly, Cedar Smuttly Dogs, Smity Power Glide, Unweighted Sledges. Slow sinkers usually have a drop rate of less than 1 fps(foot per second). Fast sinkers usually are classified at 1 fps or more. Including Weighted Sledges,Mantas,Magic Makers, Sinking Phantoms, Bull Dawgs(I use them like a glider), Jerkos and Squirkos, Weighted Reef Hawgs,Cobb CDs, A.P.s, Maple Smuttlys Dogs, Dunwrights and Wabulls.
I'm sure others will add their favorites to these lists.
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| MM, awesome post. That is almost an article, and definitely a list of some great gliders.
The one thing that I like a glider to do is slowwww sink and "hang" when I pause my retrieve.
I like to twitch-twitch.......pause, repeat. The older I get, the longer the pauses, but I catch most of my fish on the pause. I like that side to side flash followed by a long pause that seems to provoke fish into hitting or gives them an opportunity to circle their prey and T-Bone it!
Slow sinkers like Hughes Rivers, Smuttleys, Cobbs Crazy Shad and Castors.
I know Cady made some light Wabulls, I like those much more than the heavy ones.
One other thing is I like a bait that is weighted to fall in a natural sinking manner, straight down...not nose dive or tail dive. That's how I try to weight mine. When I drop it in the tank, the lure shimmys to the bottom and when the hooks hit the bottom, the lure stops sinking. It's like the lure wants to float, but it can't. I may not get as wide of a glide, but it's the hang that I'm looking for.
Gliders, a 4 ounce finesse bait!
Beav
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