Fatika79

I rigged up a 10/0 beast. With it rigged properly, the peak of the hook bend sits beyond the hook slot. It's perfectly keeled/balanced, yet I do not set how the hook point exposure/bite gap is ideal whatsoever. I've reached out to Hudd a few times regarding this without an answer. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm fairly confident I'm not. They should obviously be perfectly rigging and jacking some fish with good results prior to releasing these. Love Hudds, this is my first bad experience. Again, maybe it's my issue, but I've seen other feedback like this on IG as well.

@jp_midwest Thanks for the feedback! I'm from the north Chicago suburbs. How about you?

Just getting into 1-3 oz max single joint glide baits. Been cutting my teeth with 115 slide swimmer, R2S 168, Jerry rago cha cha. Will be trying out g-ratt sneaky and baitsanity antidote glide soon. I've used both 7:3:1 and 6:3:1 reels. I really wanted to try the Tatula 150, but as a left hander, they only make a 7:3:1 / 30.5 " per crank..........I am really curious about the Tatula 150 to double as a heavy cover flipping reel, so I ordered it. Will be using with the 7'3" heavy tatula swimbait rod rated up to 4 oz. Plan on throwing with 16-18 # Daiwa Samurai flouro. From my experience, the 6:3:1 / 30.5 " per crank reel I've used seemed not personally preferable when imparting manual gliding cadences with fractional reel turns. Felt like I would have to do a 1/2-3/4 of a handle turn to get the desired action. Would prefer around 1/4 turns to get desired manual action. I understand gear ratio has been discussed many times before on this forum. Any feedback regarding your experiences with this reel or similar reel speeds is welcome. Also, any experience or recommendations with your success with working any of these specific glide baits would be much appreciated. Different cadences, whether it's just straight retrieve, manual glides hybrid of multiple different actions/techniques. Rod movement involvement or not. I'm in Illinois, so any recommendation of northern midwest success regarding actions/cadences/speeds during specific seasons would also be great! Regardless, any experience and advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time! Peace and hope all is good!

Well worth it. As you mentioned for convention stuff, it's probably the most versatile casting champ rod there is.

@chevro1et Thanks for the info.

@BigSpirit Reassuring to know your fury 734 can handle the way your working the swaver 168. Thanks for sharing.

I'm mostly throwing 3/4 - 1.5 oz swimbaits on this rod that's rated up to 1.5 oz. I would like to try a Deps 145 slide swimmer at 1.8 oz, without having to purchase another rod, as I do not plan on throwing anything bigger. Does anyone have experience with this rod, throwing baits a little bit over it's rating? Any feedback welcome. Thanks.

Hi All! New to this forum and swim baiting in general, due to years of physical health issues not allowing me to throw anything over 3/4 oz. Now I'm able to handle small swimbaits. I know this topic has been addressed many times and there's a bunch of history on this forum and throughout the web, but still have questions. I'm looking to throw STX-45s on s waver 168s. What size owner hyperwire split rings and what size STX-45s do you recommend? Also, any advice on a round bends that have a a similar weight to the STX-45. Any recommendations and sizes welcome. Thanks peeps! Peace and hope all is good!