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I build a few very basic ones last winter and was surprised by how easy it was to get them to glide. I cut a piece of maple into a basic fish shape and then played around with the weighting to get it to sink level. I ended up with two weights ahead of the belly hook and two behind. It swims it a pretty tight gliding pattern and fished really well in current. I fished it with just a belly hook which added a little more glide. When I tested it with a tail hook it reduced the gliding action quite a bit. The one that swam best was the one where I just rounded over the edges on a router. On a few I tried to shape around the nose and the tail and those didn’t swim consistently, probably because my shaping wasn’t completely symmetrical.
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