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Both of these have 4 ballasts along the belly and their actions turned out great..
When you guys put weight in these things how many holes do you drill? I've always tried to keep it around 4 (unless I need to add more weight) and I'm not sure why. I think I've read in a blog somewhere that the more distributed the weight the better the action. I've never tried anything less than 4 holes to pour lead in, but I have the idea that 2 ballasts of the proper weight and distance apart will give the same action in the water... maybe even a little more erratic, I might be wrong, but what do you think?
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| Looks great I usually do 3 depending on the length of the lure.but if the lure performs the way you want with 10 holes that's all that matters! |
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| my advise is: they are too pretty to fish!! |
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Location: The Netherlands. | Now those are very nice lures !!
And about the advice part: if they perform the way you want,it doesn`t matter how many (or how few) lead holes you have made in the lure(s). |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Very nice work there |
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Location: canada | awesome paint jobs, and my advice if its not broken don't fix it
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| Yeah, if a guy's not careful he could bring this glide bait weighing down to a pointless science and waste a lot of time lol. I've mostly made crankbaits until now, so you could say that I'm still new to making glide baits. I suppose I'll still be experimenting with different ways of weighing on the lures I make for myself.
Thanks for the compliments! |
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| I remember when they did a survey about gliders and almost everyone wanted a more erratic action. After making gliders for 10 years or so I've come to the conclusion that the only way to get more erratic action is in the hands of the guy who holds the rod. Gliders glide because of weighting, and you guys are right, you can really over think it. Look at Jim Wilson maker of HRs, he went from 13 small weights in '99-2000 to two big weights from 2002 until now. His baits glide nicely and have a slow sink rate, but if you want erratic, you better be twitching and twisting and yanking your rod tip all over the place, which in most cases kills any gliding action. My best advice for guys who want erratic action is to buy a short lipped crankbaits and yank them like Reef Hawgs on crack. Erratic and glide are not two words that go together. You can work dive/rise lures and get a very erratic action. Suicks work best for me when they are spazzing out, but that action is all imparted by me.
If the lure you made is a good glider, be happy. I have a bucket of blanks that didn't work out, and now I weight all of my gliders in the same fashion. I took some bodies that were gliders ready for paint and put a short, round lip in them to see what would happen, and what I got was some neutrally buoyant pull baits.....not that they won't catch fish.
Getting small lures like the one you pictured to glide is not easy. You should be happy. If you really want to make some gliders, you can PM me and I'll be glad to help as much as I can. |
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