Thanks Geoff! Great top 5'ish! I'm still growing my arsenal so it's good to hear what's proven. You're right about throwing the bait should be fun too. A lot of casts for that ONE bite! Might as well enjoy the hunt.
Big swimbaits & wakebaits are such an addiction...I just can't stop buying them 😄 I even have fun just pulling out my swimbait boxes and holding them, admiring how they look....8" Hudd is my all time favorite for soft...MS Slammer for wake...and savage gear magnum Shine Glide in crappie color is becoming a newer favorite!
The first swimbait fish I caught was on a 9 inch A.C. plug from shore at lake Murray. It wasn't a big bass but it shot like a rocket straight up to smack the hell out of it . That was a long time ago . I recently picked up some O.G. A.C. plugs made out of wood , hand painted by Allen Cole.
Been watching you for years ! Great job bra! I finally got my hands on a drt wcz k9 on the last drop from wcz an all I can say i hell yeah glad I did! Thanks for all the tips an knowledge !
@@crazybassfisher bro I'm a fan. I started watching back in the day too. You got me hooked on big swim baits and I keep buying smashing(or snagging) buying catching. It's fucking fantastic!
Aw we were throwing original AC (Allen Cole) swimming plugs back in the 1980s in Calif at lake castaic and pyramid lake for giant bass and stripers. Those were the real orig swim baits back in the day 40 years ago when lake castaic was cranking out 18 pounders weekly, and pyramid 40 lb stripers almost daily. Ps good information video
I love my LDC rods, all of them have been great. The spiraled guides are cool, cant personally say it has affected my fishing in either a positive or negative way. The rod builders have a much better input on spiral wrapped rods than I haha
I really want to love the K9 and I really do but I cannot get comfortable with the glide mode. I just need to stick a fish to gain some confidence in it
Are you having trouble because it’s so erratic? Or something else? It can be tricky at first to be in control of the bait. Once you get the cadence down, it becomes a lot easier to manipulate the bait
@@crazybassfisher I think it’s getting the cadence down is what I’m struggling with. I’ve added some weight to the bait so it suspends and was liking that a lot more. I’m going to spend a lot more time with it next year to try and get it down. Just have to wait for the ice to melt 🤮
My current favorites are the tiny Klash, Klash 9, 6th sense draw and double h mir and mir jr. If you can find a mir or mir jr, get it, by far my favorite glide bait. I just paid a hefty price for each.
@@crazybassfisher the draw has a good glide to it. But stock, it glides wide/far. It works best when fished slowly imo, but with the Milliken modification, he made a video about it, it has a better glide action to it. It can be worked slow or fast and will still has a nice glide action.
Thank you for info, live in no California around bunch of big fish , would like to get a setup for those big baits, do you have a suggestion for both glides and swimbait, also line suggested and do you have a leader, knot suggestion?
Tons of great options on the market from IRod, ST croix, Megabass, LDC rods, just depends on the price and wait time for what you’re looking for. A good rule of thum is go with an 8’ XH rod. For reels, either daiwa or shimano in a size 300 would be money. I tie a double uni knot for all my swimbaits and it never fails me!
Hey man! I’ve been in and out of the game for a while now. Living by the Texas coast here I don’t do as much bass fishing, but I love your channel and it hypes me up to want to go back out there and catch some! Do you have any used baits for sale you’d like to get rid of? Fellow RU-vidr here looking for something cool to catch bass on a big rocky lake.
Love the videos. New sub btw! I just got a couple hard swim baits and couple glide baits . Bought a rod and reel based on a couple of your videos. I have also bought couple 6” Magdrafts I live in North Texas and I am the traditional Bass guy! Really nothing more then 3/4 oz stuff My question is : At what water temp do you start throwing hard glides and swim baits ? I assume the soft Magdraft can be fished deeper in 55 degree water in late winter. But just some direction would be great. Thank you ! Great videos !
Definitely like magdrafts & citizens for sure. I have only have a couple glides, a Islide135 that's small & I've caught decent sized fish after I modified it to cut harder back/forth. Then I have the magnum shine glide, that I've fished alot & tired about everything but it just never swims well. I'm looking for new big glide to throw in 9-10". Everyone throws the deps 250 so rather find something little less common! Any suggestions
@@crazybassfisher ok cool, I will. I'd rather spend little more one 1 big good glide & learn to fish it well plus always better to fish something not as common.
The hudds have been around for so long and they have just lost the hype to them. Still amazing baits that have caught thousands of giant fish. I’ve never had great success personally though with them strangely enough.
Cool video bro! Hey I was wondering if I could pick your brain on the K9 at some point when you're not busy. I have been really frustrated with the bait in glide mode.
So is that why the older Hph models with the round connection joints and the 9inch go for so much? because It fishes way different than the newer model cause I had the newer model hph and it didn't like going fast really was more of slow smooth glide.
The older ones do swim a bit different and Randall doesn’t make the 9” anymore, I’ve had the newer 8’s and still like the swim but definitely different than the old ones
Do they still make the High Power Swimbaits like the gliding gizzard? I'm not a FB guy and it looks like they haven't posted on there page in over a year (Nov 2021 to be exact).
Should do a video on how you mod your commercial baits. You or the hook up lads ever find yourself in Ontario wanting to hammer some smallies - come find ol'' skip.
I personally haven’t had amazing success with the Hudd, maybe because I started throwing them too late in the game but the other soft baits have done much better for me
@@crazybassfisher I always wondered why Roman Made didn't make an intermediate bait size between the Mother and Negotiator...it would have been around 9.5 inches, seems like a perfect size
