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| I think Bens modivators look amazing and they catch fish. Easy to get gliding and great belly wobble. I sold my phantoms.
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | 6" softail phantom. Biggest smallie (20"), pike (41"), and Wisconsin musky (43"). Too bad my father in law dumped that phantom over the side of the boat this fall. |
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| If I had to go with one, mag sized hot tail. They can be worked at any depth or speed and the wobble on the fall can't be beat. There is nothing more exciting in Muskie fishing than watching a fish sink straight down with a wobbling hot tail and then exploding for the kill when you rip it up. |
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Location: Madison wi | Single stand, or flouralcarbon leeders??
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | muskie treats or warlock |
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| billy bucher - 12/30/2014 11:20 AM
Single stand, or flouralcarbon leeders??
Single strand w/ no swivel or snap will give you the best action. I use 174lb for most gliders |
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Location: WI | As a builder of gliders it is hard for me to not use my own but I am also a collector and have a few Cobbs , smutlys and solar fall baits in there. Hughes rivers top them all though.
Here's a pic of mine if you haven't seen them
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Location: montreal, canada | KODIAK glider has the best belly roll !!! they have a killer action !!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Obviously, based on the answers so far there is no 'best' glider.
Highly subjective question to answer, and what you will get is each angler's personal preference. |
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Location: Madison wi | Looks like the most common answers are hell hound and soft tail phantom, i will be picking up one of each. Ive had a lot of luck with magic makers and mr Automatic. Mr automatic has always been my go to glide bait. I picked up 3 of them at the milwaukee expo a few years ago and have never looked back..... |
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| Regardless of the glider brand, I'm a huge fan of the soft tails. They seem to get more looks than the standard hard baits
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| Hellhounds are the easiest for me to work so thats my choice. With that said Im more of a blade and rubber guy so I dont throw them that much but plan on forcing myself to fish them more next year. |
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| Definitely subjective topic, but I enoyed reading everyones preferences. I am a fan of Phantoms and Manta's personally and I am opposite of previous poster in that I actually prefer no tail. Agian, like others have stated, it all personal preference. |
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Location: Canada | I have one Manta that I fish a lot on a certain body of water. The hook up ratio has not been the greatest but it sure does get a lot of attention. I had a Hellhound custom painted to match that Manta. I also own a few other Hellhounds, a Hughes River Little Hughey that I like, a Cobb's countdown, a Widowmaker Deadhead and a few others that I hang onto. I sold/traded all my phantoms. I also own quite a few Modivators. I had several of the softail Modivators but sold/traded them all and bought more hard tail Modivators. I too am not a fan of soft tailed gliders. |
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| I love custom made ones way more than any of the store brought ones. I have a few Hoosier Handmade musky baits that I have and they work great |
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Location: Oregon | A much larger range of responses than I would have expected, an interesting thread.
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Location: Indiana | Bikini Bait Company turmoil! I only use the older wooden ones, but have heard that the plastic turmoil X are good. |
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Location: varies | Bomber 6" herky jerky. Maybe not the best ,but for $6-7 , they don't disappoint! Has a lot of spendy lure characteristics. Shimmy on the pause/fall, great side2side,etc.. |
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| I am a hellhound guy, but also like phantoms. Looking to expand my arsenal soon with maybe some modivators/hot tails/etc.
In regards to the soft tail topic, I own a few soft tail versions of both the hellhounds and phantoms but I've started only buying hard tails. If I want to get a soft tail action, I use the esox assault killer tails on a hard tail bait. I prefer the killer tails over the factory soft tails as I like the hook placement better on the hard tail and can always take the killer tail off and go back to the hard bait. |
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| All personal opinion...I like my KODIAK glide baits. |
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| mseybert - 1/1/2015 9:29 AM Bikini Bait Company turmoil! I only use the older wooden ones, but have heard that the plastic turmoil X are good. x2...ordered one last year and loved it. |
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| Mark??? hahaha |
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| Musky Buster Mini Super Appealer. Underrated.
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Location: Western PA | HR shaker. c'mon guys everyone knows that! Stingers are as good of quality as it gets in my opinion as well. On par catch wise with HH and Phantom, but often times lasts longer. |
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| All have their place, but no amount of $ will ever buy my Hoosier handmades. By far my absolute best gliders and all have multiple fish. Never owned one that wouldn't run. |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | HellHounds, Phantoms both in soft tails. |
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| My go-to gliders are: 6" Rapala Glidin' Rap, 8"/10" Hellhound (regular), and 7.5"/10" Phantom Softail. |
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| I love the manta and have great success attracting fish but ge frustrated with fish missing and swipes under the bait. I do get some solid strikes and catch lots of fish on them. I'd say I hook up 50% of the time. My success with Phantoms attracking muskie is far less. Thinking about buying some wabulls for 2015. I like the action I see on videos.
Anyone care to comment if the hookup ratio on a wabull is any better than a manta? Or are muskies just muskies and live with it 
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