stripercrazy Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 there not as easy as they look:lol: I ripped down some cypress boards yesterday and got some scraps to play with...I started with two belly weights 6grams...a little smaller than the head of a 3/8 forester bit...floated nice tail down a little not much action it would glide one out of ten times:lol: noticed the head comming up so I put a bigger belly weight in the nose..1/2 forester bit head size..its got more action up and down and 2 out of ten times it glides, my question is not how much weight to put in it, but if you cut it in half and if you take a ratio of wood floatation vs lead what half would be heaver...I'm looking at it like a spook kinda the tail drives the plug's action..fundamentaly is it the same with a glider....is the ratio of weight/floation more in the tail pushing the glide...again I'm not looking for a weight answer(like how much)just what you guys think fundamentally about gliders....just wondering why I never see thru wired ones thanks ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripercrazy Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 I need to learn how to work a glider too...I switched to a flipping stick today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark berrisford Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 i weight mine to sink slowly horizontally most of the lead is at the nose,looking at your picture i'd round the nose off a bit which would help it glide,as for working them short downward taps do the trick taking up the slack between each tap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripercrazy Posted December 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 bezyb...wow, nice site:) thats a great photo of a glider in that pike:worship: thanks for the help I'll sand the nose to go through the water better...best thing about bluefish is they'll hit anything that looks like a fish when there blitzing..if they don't get there first they don't eat...kinda makes plugbuilding easy...I'll mark the ones that don't work well and throw them into a blitze like the one in the photo:) thanks for ya help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
