Can’t beat the baitsanity baits for beginner glide. Explorer gen 2 rivals a deps 250 for half the price, the baitsanity antidote is an excellent open water/cover glide and look into the spro kgb Chad shad if your fish are tighter to cover and a little more aggressive.
@@BoSpeyrer absolutely man. That would be great, I need a buddy to do it with. Since I've been on tour I really haven't been throwing big baits as much!
Just watched this video tonight, tracked down Bo on fb and just made a killer deal with him on a new (very hard to get swimbait!) So stoked I stumbled across your page!
As someone who started really focusing more on swimbaits about 14 months ago, here is a list of a few that I find are great baits (and Mikey, I live in FL so they work well here): start with a few from Mike Bucca. Learn how to throw them. Learn the different swims. Spend several months with these and find out what you like and don't like, and then branch out. I highly recommend the bull shad and bull gill and gill glide. Rats. Get a solid top water rat. Bucca makes one, but there are several custom rat makers that have excellent baits for ~$100. PB Rat and Pete Rodent's EC Rodent is what I use. For soft plastic swimbaits, I prefer Working Class Zero Citizens. Any color will work. I think you already met up and fished with Keith Wilson down South FL. He is the king of throwing Citizens and Battle Shads in FL and as you can see from his Instagram channel, he catches a TON of bass > 7 pounds using just those two baits in a year. They are a bit hard to find, but they can be used in and around grass, mats/pads here in FL and just about anywhere else on the water. As for your requested soft plastic shiner, I recently bought the Savage Gear 8" in Carp color that I think is going to be great. I'll keep you posted. Great video. You should pick up a few of these and then do a few videos just throwing nothing but swimbaits!
I make Baits for a hobby. Specializing in extremely shallow running Crank baits just a little deeper than a one minus. I actually use wood called, basswood. LOL. Those baits you were looking at, are works of art. And very time consuming I’m sure. And I understand the cost of paying for one of those lures. .cool video!!!
I enjoy fishing big swimbaits but in my area they're seasonal unless you want to go weeks without a strike. With that said I never go to the lake without my 8" Bull Shad just in case the wind and cloud cover align for a feed window on big gizzards.
Chuckbaits victim Gill and trout are the best glides I’ve ever fished and I’ve fished deps, s waver, 3:16, KGB (also incredible), Klash, mattlures, etc etc
Right off St John’s in DeBary. Are these workable in River? I’ve fished lots of glide baits for Musky in WI and have reasonable skills but will these work on the River? Love the spots as you all are more into fishing for the relaxation, anticipation, and less pressure than the hardcore tournament types.
Pretty baits! I dipped a toe in recently, got a 6" magdraft, 8" magdraft, and some savage gear glides. On my budget that will have to suffice for now. They look cool in the water, yet to catch anything green on them, but stripers eat that savage gear I can attest to that. Still looking for the right water to catch a bass on them.
Some of the best “learner, carefree kinda baits” (hard baits) that you can use with reckless abandon so to speak are the Spro BBZ, Savage Gear, Storm Arashi, 22nd Century Triple Trout, CL8 Bait, Livingston, branded baits. Baits you can obtain easily and inexpensively from Tackle Warehouse for instance. These baits make it easy to learn to throw without fear of loss because they’re easy to replace and don’t cost a fortune. And if you don’t know how to tie a GOOD knot, do so before buying your swimbaits! If you can’t cast a heavier bait without a birds nest, don’t learn with swimbaits! Castoffs are expensive preventable losses of swimbaits. Also get yourself a GOOD Swimbait retriever that you can use to get your baits that hang up on trees, branches, ledges, etc. They’re inexpensive protection from unpredictable losses, especially for deep water fishing. They make it easy to fish a Swimbait without worrying about hanging up and losing your bait. The best I’ve used and own is the Premier Machine 44 Mag Lure Retriever Plug Knocker. Do a Google search for a source.
Great reply! Let me add another nugget. If you bank fish glides, get yourself a diving or pool mask and keep it in the truck, you won’t regret it! Yes, you will absolutely without question go in after a hung up chad, Henkel or any of those beauties!
Working on a glidebait right now. Already caught 4 smallies on it. Messing with the weights and testing the action, to replicate a slow floating, and a slow sink version. Never fished a glide bait before, but man is it fun!
@@mikeybalzz idk where my reply went 5 minutes ago. Haha I'm only trying to be different! It's a 6 inch bait. I got some chest cam footage I can show you if you want to see. Footage is before I added a little more weight to it.
Any tips or tricks to keep a bluegill or crappie style glide bait from helicoptering on the cast ? Love the baits but I’m struggling with getting a good cast with them
A lot of the off the shelf stuff will do that. It just is what it is. The heavier resin baits don’t really do it. PM me on FB or insta and I can try to get you headed in the right direction.
You bring up a great point! I have some garage customs that helicopter and some that don’t. I’ve found that a true underhand lob will minimize that. Prob is you can’t full send an underhand lob. I have a few really good glides, one of my favs is an 86 doomrider and it heli’s like a mugg, so I underhand lob it.
Not really he said he fished really only a few “fairly often” more of the ones he showed he said he hadn’t fished it yet....even the kens he tied on said he just tied it on, also said he didn’t get out much last year
Swimbait Universe, Swimbait World Wide, soflo swimbaits, Swimbait the South, Swimbait Nation groups on Facebook, Swimbait Yellow Pages group on Facebook will keep you updated on drops, and Swimbait Underground's Black Market website forum is also a great buy/sell/trade spot!!!
Dude Mikey, CZcams is screwing you. I miss all your new posts because they don’t hit my feed. Yes I am subscribed and it’s ridiculous. Give Bog a head scratch for me. Keep doing you.
Now I have a bit of a tackle problem and all, but if I ever have baits that I pay high dollar for and don't fish, please punch me dead square in the nose..
When he started with the Chad Shad and the Workhorse I knew the dude had some way cool stuff.
The Storm Arashi Swimmer and the Jackall Gantarel are really easy to get confidence in.
Thank ya BO (boo) for the vote of confidence. Still waiting for Mikey to come visit me at the shop :)
i need to tighten up my priorities ahhahha.
Notice how he kept the lid of that one box from flopping all the way open, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why, lol.
Humor me, I'm not sure why he didn't open that box...
Why didn’t he?
He was keeping those lures a secret. @@FaithFirstFishing
@@howabouthetruth2157 oh okay! God bless!
And God Bless you as well !!!@@FaithFirstFishing
Can’t beat the baitsanity baits for beginner glide. Explorer gen 2 rivals a deps 250 for half the price, the baitsanity antidote is an excellent open water/cover glide and look into the spro kgb Chad shad if your fish are tighter to cover and a little more aggressive.
Thanks for sharing Bo! That's an insane collection you've got 😍
👍. I’ll hit u up when I go to big G next and throw the big stuff!!
@@BoSpeyrer absolutely man. That would be great, I need a buddy to do it with. Since I've been on tour I really haven't been throwing big baits as much!
🔥🔥awesome video Mikey and your buddy has a super dope collection of swim baits 🤙🤙
Awesome! Looking at like $10,000 worth of custom, high end swimbaits there!!!
Nice breakdown I need some open water wide glides bad.
Just watched this video tonight, tracked down Bo on fb and just made a killer deal with him on a new (very hard to get swimbait!) So stoked I stumbled across your page!
that's so cool!
As someone who started really focusing more on swimbaits about 14 months ago, here is a list of a few that I find are great baits (and Mikey, I live in FL so they work well here): start with a few from Mike Bucca. Learn how to throw them. Learn the different swims. Spend several months with these and find out what you like and don't like, and then branch out. I highly recommend the bull shad and bull gill and gill glide. Rats. Get a solid top water rat. Bucca makes one, but there are several custom rat makers that have excellent baits for ~$100. PB Rat and Pete Rodent's EC Rodent is what I use. For soft plastic swimbaits, I prefer Working Class Zero Citizens. Any color will work. I think you already met up and fished with Keith Wilson down South FL. He is the king of throwing Citizens and Battle Shads in FL and as you can see from his Instagram channel, he catches a TON of bass > 7 pounds using just those two baits in a year. They are a bit hard to find, but they can be used in and around grass, mats/pads here in FL and just about anywhere else on the water. As for your requested soft plastic shiner, I recently bought the Savage Gear 8" in Carp color that I think is going to be great. I'll keep you posted. Great video. You should pick up a few of these and then do a few videos just throwing nothing but swimbaits!
Check out the Molix 178awesome glide for a production
Got that Cali swag on his boat!🤙
Love the local flavor. Cool video!
Megabass vitalion are really cool, also the magdraft is a great soft swimbait
I make Baits for a hobby. Specializing in extremely shallow running Crank baits just a little deeper than a one minus. I actually use wood called, basswood. LOL. Those baits you were looking at, are works of art. And very time consuming I’m sure. And I understand the cost of paying for one of those lures. .cool video!!!
$100-$200 swim baits all thrown into a single box erks me. I’m such a nerd that I’d have each one in their own dedicated box. 😬
Realprey makes a shiner boot tail..
Super cool baits, makes me wanna get sum
I'm glad he mentioned the fish lab bluegill glide.. That thing is money
Great video buddy
Cool baits 😎
Nice vid, I have a ton of those swimbaits
Cool video!
Awesome vid
I enjoy fishing big swimbaits but in my area they're seasonal unless you want to go weeks without a strike. With that said I never go to the lake without my 8" Bull Shad just in case the wind and cloud cover align for a feed window on big gizzards.
Chuckbaits victim Gill and trout are the best glides I’ve ever fished and I’ve fished deps, s waver, 3:16, KGB (also incredible), Klash, mattlures, etc etc
Chucks baits look fantastic. I’ve been trying to get 1 or 2 but they don’t come easily.
@@BoSpeyrer very true Try and get your hands on one You’ll love it
Leave everything else at home, sweet baits. Love the gill baits.
Florida fisher here. Please explain glide style baits. Are these something we should be using in Florida? Thanks
Check out the G-Rat Sneaky Pete. Great price point, super reactive, available, works in current, runs a tick deeper than an s waver.
Great colors too
Right off St John’s in DeBary. Are these workable in River? I’ve fished lots of glide baits for Musky in WI and have reasonable skills but will these work on the River? Love the spots as you all are more into fishing for the relaxation, anticipation, and less pressure than the hardcore tournament types.
Pretty baits! I dipped a toe in recently, got a 6" magdraft, 8" magdraft, and some savage gear glides. On my budget that will have to suffice for now. They look cool in the water, yet to catch anything green on them, but stripers eat that savage gear I can attest to that. Still looking for the right water to catch a bass on them.
6” and especially the 8” magdraft are some of my go to soft baits.
Some of the best “learner, carefree kinda baits” (hard baits) that you can use with reckless abandon so to speak are the Spro BBZ, Savage Gear, Storm Arashi, 22nd Century Triple Trout, CL8 Bait, Livingston, branded baits. Baits you can obtain easily and inexpensively from Tackle Warehouse for instance. These baits make it easy to learn to throw without fear of loss because they’re easy to replace and don’t cost a fortune. And if you don’t know how to tie a GOOD knot, do so before buying your swimbaits! If you can’t cast a heavier bait without a birds nest, don’t learn with swimbaits! Castoffs are expensive preventable losses of swimbaits. Also get yourself a GOOD Swimbait retriever that you can use to get your baits that hang up on trees, branches, ledges, etc. They’re inexpensive protection from unpredictable losses, especially for deep water fishing. They make it easy to fish a Swimbait without worrying about hanging up and losing your bait. The best I’ve used and own is the Premier Machine 44 Mag Lure Retriever Plug Knocker. Do a Google search for a source.
Great reply! Let me add another nugget. If you bank fish glides, get yourself a diving or pool mask and keep it in the truck, you won’t regret it! Yes, you will absolutely without question go in after a hung up chad, Henkel or any of those beauties!
I've tried to find a Hinkle for like a year
Working on a glidebait right now. Already caught 4 smallies on it. Messing with the weights and testing the action, to replicate a slow floating, and a slow sink version. Never fished a glide bait before, but man is it fun!
That is cool! You're always tinkering, how big is the bait?
@@mikeybalzz idk where my reply went 5 minutes ago. Haha I'm only trying to be different! It's a 6 inch bait. I got some chest cam footage I can show you if you want to see. Footage is before I added a little more weight to it.
@@FreedomFishing is it up on your Channel?
@@mikeybalzz No not yet. I want it tuned and painted before I really show it off on my channel. Only have raw footage 2 mins in total right now.
@@FreedomFishing nice - gonna go bluegill or more shad style pattern?
There's a lot of glide and wedge tail baits that mimic shiners bro you just gotta look
California swimbait. Yessir. Kevin Lee bgc baits are killer. If u can get one of his bait you won’t be disappointed.
I used to collect Hot Wheel cars when I was a kid. Now I am 60 and collecting swimbaits!
You need to shake the Florida off and get with it Mikey!
That’s a small fortune right there
Any tips or tricks to keep a bluegill or crappie style glide bait from helicoptering on the cast ? Love the baits but I’m struggling with getting a good cast with them
A lot of the off the shelf stuff will do that. It just is what it is. The heavier resin baits don’t really do it. PM me on FB or insta and I can try to get you headed in the right direction.
@@BoSpeyrer thanks bud , kinda figured it was due to them being a cheaper bait but had hi hopes there was a trick to minimize it . Thanks
You bring up a great point! I have some garage customs that helicopter and some that don’t. I’ve found that a true underhand lob will minimize that. Prob is you can’t full send an underhand lob. I have a few really good glides, one of my favs is an 86 doomrider and it heli’s like a mugg, so I underhand lob it.
Love my GARUDA
And an assload of shiner glides out there lol
Wake baits and crank down toxic baits rock
Meet me at rainbow one day... then you can see how all those bait swim and how the bass love to eat/fallow.
I'll show you mine, you show me yours.... hahahaha
never ask a man how much any of his fishing tackle costs. he either has to lie or risk it with the misses lmao
Absolutely true!✌️😎
Truest comment I’ve ever seen.
Nah. My wife lets me do what I want. She knows they aren’t cheap. Lol.
@@BoSpeyrer You’re fortunate.
Don’t knock the Big Game Custom!! It catches Bigguns!!👀💯💯
He says he fishing them quite often but there’s no hook rash on them 🤔
Not really he said he fished really only a few “fairly often” more of the ones he showed he said he hadn’t fished it yet....even the kens he tied on said he just tied it on, also said he didn’t get out much last year
Mike I looking for property in Florida. One question, does Ocala suck ??🤷♂️
Never fished a better glide bait or swim bait for that matter then Mike Stacy at Golden Belt Customs
How can I get custom swimbaits without getting them from the maker is there a buy and trade website?
Swimbait universe on facebook
Swimbait Universe, Swimbait World Wide, soflo swimbaits, Swimbait the South, Swimbait Nation groups on Facebook, Swimbait Yellow Pages group on Facebook will keep you updated on drops, and Swimbait Underground's Black Market website forum is also a great buy/sell/trade spot!!!
The bent tails in the box is making my skin crawl
You bass guys crack me up. Take a look inside a musky fishermans custom box.
Small collection
Dude Mikey, CZcams is screwing you. I miss all your new posts because they don’t hit my feed. Yes I am subscribed and it’s ridiculous. Give Bog a head scratch for me. Keep doing you.
First to comment!, Mikey keep up the great content.
Great stuff. I can't see myself dropping $200+ on a swim bait, but they look amazing.
Bo, whats up man?
Falgoooo!!!!
Workhorse is legit
But does he have a shizzard
Yes. Yes I do
@@BoSpeyrer 👊👊
YA WANNA SEE SOME BIGGER RARE ONES?
Now I have a bit of a tackle problem and all, but if I ever have baits that I pay high dollar for and don't fish, please punch me dead square in the nose..
Mikey I sent you a message on IG from my Faith Fishing account.
bo former military?
No sir
Yeah find a Hinkle Shad today for $500 son. Try about a grand or better. $1000 all day
Swimbaits are better at catching fishermen than fish.
I hate this guy. he’s got phony frogs, bgc’s, etc. all the hard to get baits.