07-21-2019, 08:58 PM
[quote Therapist]Never heard them called "slap baits". Spooks are made by Heddon and are the original in a class of baits called "dog walkers" due to the action that can be imparted by fishing them on a slack line..........................
................PS: Some of the best days for topwater are in the middle of the day during July and August !! [/quote]
The "dog walker" category includes the "slap baits" like the Zara spook, and the glide baits like the Dahlberg Wide Glide and various Pike glide baits in Europe. Unfortunately, we don't have "description police", at least not normally, that keep descriptions and categories from drifting. The term glide bait in the US is gradually shifting/drifting toward the jointed gliders like the River2Sea S Waver.
A slap bait, from a lure maker's point of view, is one that slaps one direction, then another, but does not move much more then an inch or two from an imaginary line that runs back to the angler. A glide bait, at least in the European and older US Pike fisherman's point of view, still moves one direction, then the other, but can move several inches to as much as several feet to the left and right of that same imaginary line that runs back to the angler.
But, if we are going to have a 'description police', I nominate you. LOL
Sure do agree on the time of day and season.
................PS: Some of the best days for topwater are in the middle of the day during July and August !! [/quote]
The "dog walker" category includes the "slap baits" like the Zara spook, and the glide baits like the Dahlberg Wide Glide and various Pike glide baits in Europe. Unfortunately, we don't have "description police", at least not normally, that keep descriptions and categories from drifting. The term glide bait in the US is gradually shifting/drifting toward the jointed gliders like the River2Sea S Waver.
A slap bait, from a lure maker's point of view, is one that slaps one direction, then another, but does not move much more then an inch or two from an imaginary line that runs back to the angler. A glide bait, at least in the European and older US Pike fisherman's point of view, still moves one direction, then the other, but can move several inches to as much as several feet to the left and right of that same imaginary line that runs back to the angler.
But, if we are going to have a 'description police', I nominate you. LOL
Sure do agree on the time of day and season.