Rangermike

I was a big fan of kgb and phoney before they got so popular. Picked up several hoog baits afraid they will get hard find soon. Any other predictions on bait you can find retail now but will be high demand soon?

I’ve played around with lots of glides and you see lots of variance in what a glide will do. The slow steady wide glide (deps, mother) short back and forth like a walk (hph, og chad Shad) and wide erratic suspending (phoney, taxi, hoog) are main ones. And of course some baits do different actions. I’ve had success with them all but the wide suspended erratic has been best I’m guessing for a couple reasons. I fish around and over lots of wood. It triggers follows. And it gives fish time to swim and get the bait staying in strike zone. But interested to see if other parts of country are different. Seems like glides you burn or walk fast shine on herring and smallmouth lakes while the slow steady is popular for lakes with giants out west.

Just because everyone makes a glide bait doesn’t mean there is a surplus. You can’t just buy a phoney, hph, Hinkle, Chad Shad, ect. Yeah there are mass production options on tackle warehouse but the high end glides that suspend, get very wide are hard to find.

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Tore my tail off anyone found a good replacement

I started out a big fan of the deps but on the lakes I fish I get more bites with a change of speed and direction and the deps can blow out. I started using the taxi more because it solved a few of the issues I was having. Notably better hookups, slower sink so easier to work over wood, a little easier to cast and can be more erratic without blowing out. But I was looking for something to use as change of pace and possibly a different action. I ended watching Swimbait reviews mainly swim vids and loved the hoog glide. I bought one and have been impressed so far. The paint job is top notch and seems durable but to be fair it doesn’t have many hours on it. More importantly the glide is insane it has the widest glide I have found. What this does is allow me to keep it moving and not give the fish a good like while keeping it over a key piece of cover. The taxi which I do love seems to have certain baits with a wide glide while some walk and don’t want to go as wide. I have tried 4 hoog glides and all have great action. One thing I loved about the taxi was the hookup ratio. The hoog seems to also have a great hookup rate despite the wider body mainly due to the hook placement. But the biggest thing I’ve noticed that made me order a few more is more fish commit and eat it. It’s a 9 inch bait with great draw power but gets more bites from the 2-4lb fish than the taxi or deps from what I can tell. I feel it’s for the same reason you get the very wide glide it’s thinner and more hydrodynamic (guessing that’s word). Lighter pulls work the bait and it moves less water so it would have to push less water and feel smaller through the bass lateral line. I’ll have a better feel for durability and other traits of the bait when I get more hours but I’m a huge fan so far. I have been catching fish on it the best numbers of any glide I used and this is huge for me because I also fish lots of tournaments and I expect it to pay for itself in the near future. Also last and definitely not least grade A customer service he put a gift in with my order something I remember Matt servant doing years ago that shows he’s a standup guy and I have all the trust in the baitmaker as well. If I’m being honest I waited til this last drop to post the review so I could make sure I got a few more because I don’t expect the glides to be that easy to get in the future.

Taxi caught most but I used the Hoog and was really impressed it’s similar to taxi but with a few differences

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Several pros have been using glide baits last few years on the pro tour. They aren’t using hype baits for the most part I’m not saying they never do but for most part you see them using widely available baits. Point being you don’t need some rare hard to get bait to catch fish. Majority of the people buying baits on drops are 80% collector and 20% fisherman. And there’s nothing wrong with that if someone’s life is work and they have lots of $ and little time to fish and collecting and buying and Swimbaits is a good escape good for them. But don’t feel sorry or get about the Swimbait game that’s all it is.

Taxi that’s my go too

Left the sharpie in my main tacklebox but did find a spike it marker under my seat. Probably won’t win but a solid fish for Kentucky

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Not a bad day missed another big one. Big one was on a phoney others were on the Arashi

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Catching a few still but bite is slowing down. Glide bait still getting it done but nowhere near the follows I had earlier. I’m sure many bigger fish are in summer patterns staying deep and feeding nocturnal. Only one really good fish 7+ she was spawned out and fattening up bluegills and you could see a big bluegill tail down her throat. Actually I think it is my biggest June bass ever. Seeing fewer big fish shallow now. About time to take weeklong trips up north to st Clair and 1000 islands anyway.

I caught so prespawn females cruising and postspawn fish first week of may. Figured I had another week or two of good Swimbait action. Go back a week later catch more and there’s still some on beds. Go back two more weeks later I figured spawn was well over hopefully there’s some hungry postspawn females and I several big females still dropping eggs. One actually followed my bait which is rare for one in process of bedding. Ended up catch some postspawn fish. But now I know there will be even more postspawn fish up shallow next week in June!! Unreal most years by end of first week of may bedding is over and you got a week of good postspawn action. By mid may it’s slow. This year The bite will be going on in June still. I know for a fact some spawned in April so it’s definitely longest spawn I’ve seen. On big lakes it’s one thing but on smaller lakes under 200 acres it’s unusual. My biggest was 7.7 spawned out and didn’t hookup with a few other that size that hit it.

I use the taxi a lot I ordered a couple new and yeah they took longer than promised but I got them. I got the rest second hand. I got no loyalty or ties to FE but I haven’t found another glide with that profile, action and price. The sly trout looks good and I’m sure there are other good ones but I don’t feel like paying 200-250 if I could even find one. The whole reason I bought a taxi in the first place is price and he does preorders and you don’t need to sit and hit refresh for an hour around a drop. Not trying to be positive or negative but I take the good with bad. And my advice to avoid the headaches just buy second hand.

Lost the big one but did ok. Last time I went last week I had one hit and a small one so its typical spring up and downs. The cold april and early may extended the glide bite at least. Not my best effort on pics I released everything pretty quick I’m not a fan of glory pics. If I’m in a tournament and got 5 at weigh in that’s one thing but I get them back in the water ASAP otherwise.

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Is the battle for the underground supposed to be November?