Ben-E-Bait Pot Belly Glider anyone Have/Use one?

[RuKiddingMe]

I won one on hsolist yesterday, 10" model in Blue gill, looks like a sweet bait. Do anyone of you guys have any experiences with these baits?

[Worst Kid]

you got a link to the hsolist site to see the bait?

[RuKiddingMe]

Here ya go...

RU

[MuskyMark]

Looks like the stretched-out version of a Slammer Drop-Belly glider. But the paint job on the one in your photograph is pretty awesome.

Never used one or heard of one before...so no comments in that area. I might be sniffing around for one of those now. Sweet looking bait! Thanks!

Mark

[Random guy]

I'd bite that!

[RuKiddingMe]

I think the Pot belly gliders are all pretty much the same in looks, I think you see the biggest differneces in the baits when it comes to the weighting or lack there of. I doesn't take much to change the lures action one way or another, so depending on how much weight and how it's distributed is where you seperate an effective glide bait from a chunk of wood. Slammer Drop Bellies are great I wish they made them a bit longer, I have had some other glide baits that just plain sucked for action IMHO. I have yet to use one of these and not many have used them, I do know they have been around awhile, guess I'll just have to wait and see, come on OPENER...

The paint job is prety sweet, I hope the clear coat is strong enough to keep it there.

RU

[MuskyMark]

You're right about the pot belly/drop belly gliders. The general body style has gotten pretty popular over the last few years. But the paint job on that one... had me wanting to cut off a couple little bluegill fillets. Dang!

Guess I need poke around on hsolist or Amazon for one of those. Good luck with yours this year!

Mark

[setterguy]

Looks like a fatter version of the Bagley's B-flat. I saw they brought them back into production a few years ago...I still can't find a bass colored one though. Cool looking bait, I have had a lot of lookers on the b-flat, ecspecially when nothing else seems to be raising fish.

[Muskydanno]

Bikini bait company makes a great pot belly glider also called the beer belly glider. Great action and workmanship.Check out the HSOforum Jeds got a few different cool gliders.

Dan

[RuKiddingMe]

Right on Danno Jed has some killer baits and paint jobs heard he was coming out with a topwater this year too. Funny thing is he's from the West Coast somewhere, I'm thinking like Oregon and doesn't even fish musky if I recall and made his lures for Salmon fishing.

Guys if you haven't seen his stuff do a google search for Bikini Bait Company.

RU

[RK]

You know...

This is sort of off the origional subject, but...I've never really gotten the whole 'perfect glider' craze that's been going on the last few years. Seems like everyone has been out to make a glider that did a perfect walk the dog. I don't get it. This is coming from someone who got a couple Hughes Rivers back when they were $18, and gave them away because he didn't like them, so take it with a grain of salt, but...

There's no doubt that fish find something mezmorizing about a walk the dog bait. I think they'd follow a perfect glider for a mile. But with a lot of the gliders on the market, all they can do is walk the dog within a very narrow speed range. It really plays into what I think is one of the real traps when it comes to presentation and muskies. If you subscribe (as I do) to the In-Fisherman idea that presentations have two qualities - attraction and triggering - the 'perfect' gliders have a great deal of attracting qualities. They can get fish to follow when nothing else will. To me though the probelm is muskies are very very prone to responding to lures with a great deal of attracting qualities, but they need to be triggered. Some of the gliders just can't do much besides walk the dog, and there's little there to trigger fish as a result. But, since muskies are such a low numbers deal in terms of the number of fish you contact - even on a good day, to say nothing of a tough one - getting fish to follow can make you think you're on the right track. It becomes a head game in a way. On a tough day, the fish are even tougher to trigger than usual, but you're using a bait with very low triggering ability in the first place...

I think this is part of why some of the drop-belly type gliders are getting more popular. At least some of them have a little more of a range of capabilities. There's some belly roll to some of them, and maybe a little more in the way of speed range. I've caught a lot of fish the last few years on Magic Makers, because I can make 'em do stuff to trigger fish that are following - pop them up to the surface, make them go up and down and not just side to side, get them to swing WAY out, etc. Plus they're easy to work in a boat. Some baits look great in a pool, but are impossible to use well when you're bouncing around in 3 footers, watching the graph and running the trolling motor. Magic makers are just an example of gliders with wider capabilities besides walking the dog. I'm sure there are others. Reef Hawgs are probably the best example of all frankly. It's the capability to trigger fish that really makes me think that a lot of the anglers who are looking for great gliders would probably catch more fish if they just put on a good Reef Hawg.

dump - I only have $.01 Someone loan me a penny?

Cheers,

RK

[MuskyMark]

Great post RK! I personally have never had much success with glide baits. I know others do, just not me. But I keep chucking and working them occasionally. Haven't given up on them yet!

I remember when the Manta first came out a few years ago. Loved throwing those things. Easy to work, great side to side swing. But I remember a couple instances where fish would follow the lure. Get them up several times too. Not really hot.. but kind of hypnotized. And then the fish flared and my buddies throwing spinnerbaits stuck the fish immediately thereafter. I started wondering then if maybe some of those baits aren't erratic or flashy enough to trigger strikes. But again, there's others that swear by gliders and do very well with them. They've probably worked them enough to know a few subtle tricks in getting neutral fish to strike. So until then... I'm still pitching them out there!

Sorry RK. I probably used up my .02 and then some. Feel free to take an advance on that cash though... if you have more to add!

[Random guy]

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