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| From my experience with soft tail glides ( only kind i make) best place to start is adding weight as far to the rear of the bait as possible and about 1" back from the tip of the nose. Start with the same weight for each. Then test your rate of fall. When i first started building i liked to drop the bait next to another glider that i like and see if it had a similar fall rate. for instance my 6" gliders have .5 oz in the head and .5 in the tail. but they also narrow at the head and tail leaving the belly ( middle section) of the bait about 3/8s thicker then the rest of the bait creating a ballast to help the bait get its full glide. My newer skinnier 6" glide is just about the same thickness front to back having head and tail slightly narrow. This particular glider would not run with just two weighted point. I had to add a small amount of lead right infront of the rear eyelet. about 3/10s forward from the ass end. This gave the bait a nice turn/ glide that it did not have with just two weighted points. The smallest little changes can affect a glider more then you can imagine. , shorter tail , line tie placement. shape of bait and most importantly lead and lead placement. If you fine the bait wont turn hard enough it typically means the ass end does not have enough lead and is not pushing the bait around on the glide. If the bait turns super sharp then the bait has to much head weight. Its a fine line. you want to keep the proper fall speed while getting the glide your looking for. So if the bait is turning to hard but also not falling fast enough you would want to add tail weight instead of reducing the head weight. If it turns to sharp while also falling faster then you would like then you would want to reduce head weight. Best way of found to test brand new prototypes is get your sink rate correct in a little tub of water. make sure its fall flush and both hooks hit at the same time ( or the nose i tiny tinyyyy bit later then the tail because the added leader weight will even it out). once you have that done take it to a lake or where ever and take your drill with a very small drill bit on it. throw the bait. if it turns too hard drill a tiny bit of lead out of the head and throw it again. so on . moral of the story is gliders are a pain in the ass. And even once you find the perfect weight you will still need to #*^@ near test every bait and make sure because 30-40 percent of the time (at least in my experience) alot of them still need adjustment. 1. Narrowing tail and head helps the baits turn. 2. add ballast point weight right behind middle of the bait if needed. 3. dont be afraid to tweek line tie up and down sometimes that makes the difference. hope this helps [IMG]https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y71/andy417/0/8f4c28d8-b8e4-4eb0-831d-f32f10394dd4-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/IMG] Edited by DJCustombaitsLLC 8/13/2019 9:52 AM
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