Glide Bait Fishing Explained by the Experts (Catch Bigger Bass)

Yeah, really in that like six to seven inch size range, weight is going to vary depending on what the bait's made out of, you know, whether it's resin or plastic or wood.

And so I hate to put like a weight on that, but really that six, seven inch size where you get, you know, like an eye slide in like a 185, 187, like that's a really good size where nearly everything is going to Anything that you want to catch is going to eat it.

And it's big enough that it's going to trigger a response from those bigger fish.

Now, there's some fish that you got to go even bigger than that to get them to react and trigger.

But to me, that size range is just a really good all around one.

It's easy to work.

And the thing is, is that there's a lot of different offerings in that range.

And what I've noticed is when you get into the smaller baits, like I've got some tiny little glides, like this tiny little dude, right? Like that's way smaller, but they, a lot of times the smaller ones can actually be more difficult to work than, than the bigger ones, because you don't have as much surface area.

So getting the stability and really learning that bait and understanding how it works and getting the fish to react, it can actually be more difficult with a smaller bait.

So you want one that has a little bit of weight, has a little bit of surface area that can pull that bait, right? You got like a clutch ego.

That's like another great starter bait that's under a hundred bucks.

Um, but as you get into that bigger stuff, it gets like everything as far as like the swim a lot of times gets easier because you've got more surface area to plane the water but then it also right it's a bigger bait it requires bigger rods and reel setups and you got to get more specialized the bigger you go you get in that six to seven inch range to get started a lot of times guys have a rod and reel that can handle that not going to be the perfect setup but it can at least get you started in the right direction

yeah that's the the perfect transition of where i was going to lead to was rod real line because obviously like you said you can get as technical as you want you know especially when you get up those much heavier baits you're going to need a whole specialized setup for that

but

um for something that's entry level like you were just saying that that i slide i mean what kind of rod real line would you be throwing on that

I mean, really, you can go like a 150 size, right? Like a Daiwa Tatula 150.

You don't have to have a crazy big reel for that size.

But you do want something that's going to hold plenty of 20-pound test.

And generally, a lot of my glides, I would say 90% of the time, I'm in that 20, 22, or 25-pound test.

I like Seaguar Tatsu just because it's so limp.

It's very supple, doesn't have a lot of memory, but it's still super strong and has a small line diameter.

So if you get a line that has a lot of memory, when this bait, when it glides and it's trying to slide sideways, if you have that memory... and you give it some slack to allow it to glide, that memory is going to start to coil up and it's going to want to pull your bait and it's going to start pulling it toward you.

And then when you go to jerk it early, you know, when you go to pull it again, well, now your, your bait started over here and then it kind of got pulled and your lines in a loop.

And when you, now, when you hit it, now your bait may want to turn funky or do something weird.

So you want to have a line that doesn't have a lot of memory in it.