It seems I have little patience when working a glide bait and it breeches water or breaks out of the water on retrieve I was throwing a 1 oz 5 1/4” slow sinking Savage Gear glide bait any tips or answers ??
It seems I have little patience when working a glide bait and it breeches water or breaks out of the water on retrieve I was throwing a 1 oz 5 1/4” slow sinking Savage Gear glide bait any tips or answers ??
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All glides need to be worked differently, if it’s coming out of the water I’d put some lead tape on it
Was practicing with the Antidote and really wondered the same thing. When I get the cadence right it looks real cool.
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My best guess is that you are reeling it on a steady retrieve. The trick is to find a cadence and turn the handle and stop, turn the handle stop.
How quick you do this effects the glide. If you reel ,reel, reel it will come to the top and breach the top of the water. Rod pointed down and not pulling the rod tip in any direction. Make sure line is slack in between reels.
Some of the best strikes come when you stop it on slack line and lure does a 180 in the fishes face and they eat it.
However I always make the first cast to an area and keep the glide near the surface or next to structure doing the reel, reel, reel and keep it just under the surface..
If no bites or follows I will go back to the area and let it sink to the bottom and then work it back with the reel and stop method.
The best advice I could give you is to slow down, steady reel with slight rod movement. If a fish comes up,pause, then slight twitch. I like glides in colder water, them wakes and others as things warm up.
the running joke of size matters....for me the larger glide baits like a Deps 175 or bigger are allot easier to work than the smaller ones.
A lot depends on how the glide is made and also how the joint is made.
Telling Twitch to twitch?Originally Posted by steve m 1234
As an old timer told me many years ago, when I was tossing a Pop'R, wait for circles to dissapate before starting retrieve, then pop a few times and kill it for a few seconds. His reasoning for the KILL was to let those fish that were down deep in the water column to start their ascent up to the bait and blow-up on it. This really assisted me in improving my catches. I'm sure with the Glide bait, this same bit of info would hold very true.
It doesn’t. A glides drawing power is its big swimming motion. Most all glides if paused for to long will sink. Short pause is what ya want, a lot of mine get bit when swimming and some right at the short pause of the reel handle.
I slow swim mine and chop with the reel and light twitches with the rod. I also let mine sink for whatever count I think I need when first cast out then a slow retrieve to get them gliding like I want. Best bet OP is to throw it first in clear water to figure out what type of retrieve works best. I am by no means a glide bait expert but throw them plenty and get big bass and pike on them. I also use them as a search bait and always have a throw back bait waiting.
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I try different glide baits I buy in a pool to get a feel for how they sink and the action they have while reeling at different speeds.
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I change it up but try casting it out count it down and just do 1/4 handle turns and keep somewhat of a slack in the line so it can glide off af far as possible. Then a steady slow retrieve with someone sharp quick 1/4 to Half turns and a pause.
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If it’s surfacing. You are fishing it Way to fast. Slow as you can stand to reel it
Sometimes, even with an A-rig, I can bring it back more easily slow if I like reel and drag. Instead of just straight reeling.
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Just curious on how you guys tie it to your line. Leader with braid, straight braid, All mono, how heavy of line? hate to lose on as they are so expensive.
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Not to hijack thread, but what is a good Rod recommendation to throw glides on?? I tired it on my 7’6” heavy action Tatula, and that’s not near enough rod for it. I thought I was gonna snap it on the cast. Lol
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