Glide baits like the Jackall Dowz 220 Swimmer or the Deps 250 Slide Swimmer are some of the most deadly, but underutilised, baits on the Aussie market. Their popularity pales in comparison to their swimbait brethrens, like the Jackall Gigantarel, Mike Bucca Bullshad or the 180mm Goodoo Baits Ambigua.

Cutting more of a wide gated ‘S’ shape in the water on the retrieve they really use their neutral buoyancy or slow sinking power to draw fish from afar.

On a slow bite I honestly believe the extra wide swinging action of a glidebait, versus the tighter shimmy of a swimbait, can be the difference between being a hero or landing zero.

So, after a long night and morning on the water with no sign off life, I looped on my favourite coloured Jackall Dowz 220 Swimmer. After a few casts, I noticed it was sitting a little higher in the water column than I wanted, especially as the sun was now right overhead.

While you can clip on a chin weight I opted to pull out a packed of Atomic Trick Bitz Sticky Weights and put one under the chin of the bait and one under the belly. By doing this the bait sunk parallel through the water column, rather than plummeting headfirst.

For insurance, I also add a small dot of super glue to ensure they didn’t come off courtesy of my wayward casting. 

As luck would have it, this small tweak helped arrest the slide of a slow day’s fishing, as the bait was annihilated an hour later by what can only be described as a fridge with fins.

After slamming home the hooks and putting every gram of the Daiwa Ryoga’s drag to the test, we carefully nursed the behemoth into the net.

While we’ll never know if the fish would have risen those extra few feet to smack the shallower running lure without the sticky weights, I’m happy we don’t have to find out, as this beast will be forever etched into our fishing memories.