I’ve been throwing 5-7” glide baits for a year now, and I’m really getting good at working, controlling and presenting the bait but I have not had the results I would like. 
 

I’m wondering if it isn’t possibly related to the colors I’ve been throwing? Have almost exclusively been throwing gray/silver natural Shad patterns. They look great but I have heard people say bone and white outproduce everything by far. Is this accurate or should I keep grinding? 
 

More than half of the appeal of buying and throwing these baits for me is aesthetic in nature, I love the beautiful paint jobs. A prime example of a lure catching a fisherman, however I would very much like to catch more fish with them. Anyone have any thoughts on the effectiveness of colors?

 

I can't say.  And it probably depends on a lot of factors.  So what works for one person in one lake might not work for you.  I mean, if bone did routinely out produce shad colored glide baits in all situations, they'd probably only sell bone colored glides.  It's cheaper to make just one color than many.

Though I will say, I haven't had much luck with glide baits in general.  They're a lot of fun.  But I seem to only catch catfish with them.  Some nice sized catfish!  But I haven't found them to be all that great for anything else.  Having said that, they're a larger bait, so they're more likely to attract larger fish.  And we don't have many bass over 4lbs. around here, but there are a ton of catfish around the 5-6lbs mark.  So that might be the reason. 

1 hour ago, Bankc said:

I can't say.  And it probably depends on a lot of factors.  So what works for one person in one lake might not work for you.  I mean, if bone did routinely out produce shad colored glide baits in all situations, they'd probably only sell bone colored glides.  It's cheaper to make just one color than many.

Though I will say, I haven't had much luck with glide baits in general.  They're a lot of fun.  But I seem to only catch catfish with them.  Some nice sized catfish!  But I haven't found them to be all that great for anything else.  Having said that, they're a larger bait, so they're more likely to attract larger fish.  And we don't have many bass over 4lbs. around here, but there are a ton of catfish around the 5-6lbs mark.  So that might be the reason. 

I exclusively fish rivers, hoping they all potentially produce.

It's a brutal time of year for glide baits on my water.  I'll probably start throwing them again in october after the first big cool down.  I've caught on perch, shad, and bone thru the years.  Can't say I've seen a difference in color.

 

scott

49 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

It's a brutal time of year for glide baits on my water.  I'll probably start throwing them again in october after the first big cool down.  I've caught on perch, shad, and bone thru the years.  Can't say I've seen a difference in color.

 

scott

Why is it brutal?

52 minutes ago, Ohioguy25 said:

Why is it brutal?

It's just casting practice....

 

scott

I can’t talk a glide bait game with you. I don’t fish that large of baits. Maybe I should try sometime. 
But color for river smallies I’ll lean toward bone, white, pearl w/ black back, lighter scale patterns, silver scale or albino patterns this time of year. 
Colors like sexy Shad, summer sexy Shad, bluegill and perch are great patterns and are working but lighter patterns are getting hit more. 
Maybe the lighter patterns appear bigger to the fish?

Not a glide bait guy just comparing to my results with Bomber 8a, Bandit 200/300, SK XD’s. 
 

1 hour ago, softwateronly said:

It's just casting practice....

 

scott

But why 

5 hours ago, Bankc said:

I mean, if bone did routinely out produce shad colored glide baits in all situations, they'd probably only sell bone colored glides.

 

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On 7/29/2024 at 2:42 PM, Ohioguy25 said:

But why 

Still gets bites for me at night.  I added a nishine outer weight to each hook to work some deeper water more effectively.  Ended up with 3 before sunrise, then the bite shut off for me where I was fishing.

 

scott