>>2739516Heh, funnily enough the only fish I got today was on a 6” Gill wake/shallow crank. They’re very straight forward to fish.
>glideBluegill glides are mostly meh, the cheap ones and the overhyped expensive ones all swim poorly compared to a trout / shad profile glide, entirely due to the profile and not due to maker being bad. They all have a tendency to wash out on the twitch, not having a stable movement. They’ll roll, nose up or down, weird shit. Best way to fish a gill glide is just a constant, slow to medium speed retrieve with an occasional pause.
>wakeI love wakes. Just fish it like a typical top water. Steady slow retrieve, occasional pause, twitch, pause, sometimes dead sticking and not moving it at all for 30+ seconds does it too. If they blow up and miss during a retrieve, don’t stop it. Keep retrieving slowly or twitch it back and forth. Also see if on a faster retrieve it will become a sub-surface wake. A lot of my bites come waking sub-surface, including this one today.
>multi-piece Same as the glide. Retrieve, stop, retrieve. See if you can burn it back. If it can and it burns upright and stable without washing out, try that retrieve occasionally.
Swimbaits really aren’t difficult to fish. Just fuck around with them and ONLY fish them when learning. If you bring a conventional rod, you’ll go back to that after 30 minutes of no action.
