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| I am building glide baits and I am starting to really get involved how slow or fast they should sink. Feet per seconds. I have tested a recent one that i made and it sinks very slow compared to 4 other very good glide baits. My prototype 9 inch bait made out of red oak sinks 1 foot in about 10 to 11 seconds. The bait as a very good glide, but I am wondering if that is to slow of a sink rate
The bait when retrived in a straigt line will swing 2 feet right to left, that comes out to about 3 to 4 feet span. I am new to using glide baits, been using them about 3 years so I do not know if that is good or bad
Question
What is an ideal sink rate and how wide or long a glide should be
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | There is no set rule for how fast a glider should sink or how far it should glide...the whole "different tools for different situations" notion, as well as different personal preferences, etc. however, having said that, I think the good ones (and most manufacturers) shoot for 1 foot per second. It makes counting them down pretty easy. Some people prefer gliders that do not run deep, others the contrary. Are you working it over a shallow weed bed or trying to get down to 10 feet? Gliders that are worked faster necessarily are not expected to glide as far left & right, e.g. Hellhounds, but some of the others can travel two or three feet per swing, e.g. Manta. I prefer a slower presentation with a glider and favor more glide, but again, its personal preference. You will find out, if you haven't already that baits made from oak can vary significantly from peice to peice since the larger wood grain and related air in the wood will effect its bouyancing greatly. Trouble is getting several baits made in the same shape to react the same, but then making custom glide baits is usually a one at a time weighting process. Maple and some other dense hard woods are a little more uniform in their buoyoancy. There's more good information on this board if you do a search. Good luck. |
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| Like gman said its all preference. I personally like to weight mine so that when they are finished clear coat and all that without the hooks on them they still float. I like a real slow sinking bait so it just hangs there waiting to get smashed by a fish. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | I've made a few that are neutrally buoyant without hooks and split rings. That works for shallow weed presentations, but if you want it to run deeper you'll have to add weight. |
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