# Storm Arashi Glide: the 19 cm glide bait that sinks in slow motion > A jointed 19 cm / 88 g glide bait that falls at roughly 12 cm per second. Retrieve, counting the fall, tackle and honest limits, with no marketing. - Source : https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/storm-arashi-glide-glide-bait/ - Language : en-US - Updated : 2026-09-16 ## Spec sheet - Brand : Storm - Model : Arashi Glide Glide Bait - Type : Jointed glide bait - Target species : Bass, Pike - Size : 19 cm / 7.5 in - Weight : about 88 g / 3-1/8 oz - Running depth : surface down to 2-3 m / 6.5-10 ft depending on how long you count the fall - Retrieve speed : slow to medium, Storm claims it stays stable at every speed - Action : wide side-to-side glide on every handle turn or rod twitch, then a slow gliding fall - Rigging : the snap Storm includes, on braid with a heavy fluorocarbon leader, wire leader wherever pike are present - Colors : natural perch pattern in clear water, solid dark back in stained water, very pale flank in low light There is a moment on a big lake in late summer when nothing answers any more. Search baits have gone through three times, the sonar shows fish pinned under the bait balls, and no crankbait pulls them off. That is the glide bait window: a nineteen centimetre body swinging from one side to the other is not after a numbers day, it is after the fish that owns the area, and it forces that fish to make a decision. The Arashi Glide is one of the cheapest ways into a technique otherwise populated by three-figure Japanese baits. ## Nineteen centimetres for eighty-eight grams Storm lists one size only: 7.5 in, so 19 cm, for 3-1/8 oz, roughly 88 g. Those two numbers decide everything else. An 88 g bait does not go on a crankbait rod. You need a proper swimbait stick, 7 to 7.5 ft, heavy power, with a tip that accepts loading during the cast. Anything lighter and you either damage the blank or throw the bait twenty metres instead of forty. The body is jointed in two segments and finished by a soft tail section. Storm highlights a triple-pin construction and swivelling hook hangers, the stated idea being to stop a fish from using a treble as leverage to throw the bait during a fight. That is a manufacturer's claim rather than a measurement, but it has a practical consequence you can check yourself: on a bait at this price, the stock split rings and trebles are often worth swapping for hardware rated for pike if you fish in Europe. Storm ships the bait with a snap and a spare tail. That second item is not cosmetic. On a glide bait the soft tail is the part that takes the teeth, and a chewed tail genuinely changes the glide path. ## A fall rated at roughly 12 cm per second This is the most useful number in the whole description, and the one most anglers skip. Storm classes the Arashi Glide as slow sinking and puts the fall rate at 0.4 ft per second, about 12 cm per second. In other words: five seconds of pause and the bait has dropped barely 60 cm; ten seconds, around 1.2 m; you need close to twenty-five seconds to reach three metres. That slowness is a weapon. It gives you time to hover the bait over a drop-off or a sunken tree without burying it, and it holds the profile inside the fish's field of view for the whole pause. A lot of bites land exactly there, during the fall, and you will not feel them: the line lifts or simply stops, nothing more. Fish with a slightly tight line and watch the braid. > Count the fall out loud every single time, and remember the number the bite came on. On the same spot at the same hour, fish almost always take at the same depth, and from then on you only have to repeat the same count cast after cast. ## Working it: the handle more than the rod Storm describes an exaggerated swimming action that flows side to side with every turn of the handle and every twitch of the tip. In practice that means you have two distinct retrieves inside the same bait. ### The wide glide Rod low and pointed at the bait, short sharp turns of the handle, a quarter or half turn at a time, with a stop between each one. The bait kicks firmly to one side, stalls, then kicks back the other way. This is the searching retrieve: it covers water, it is easy to read, and it lets a fish follow. ### The tight glide Same position, but short closely spaced rod twitches without ever fully taking up the slack. The bait stays almost in place and swings its body across a narrow width. This is your answer to the follower, the one you see arrive behind the bait three metres from the boat: stop retrieving, make it shimmy on the spot, and that is usually when it commits. ### The mistake that kills the glide Pulling too hard and too far. A fifty centimetre rod sweep turns a glide into an uncontrolled lurch: the bait slews sideways, the line fouls the front treble, and you drag back a dead lump of plastic. A glide is commanded by small impulses. If your bait fouls one cast in three, the problem is almost never the bait, it is the size of your stroke. ## Tackle, leader and connection Clip the bait to the snap Storm supplies. A knot tightened straight onto the nose ring chokes the glide exactly the way it chokes a crankbait lip. Run 30 to 40 lb braid as main line, then a heavy fluorocarbon leader, 50 to 70 lb, to absorb abrasion and head shakes. In Europe, throwing a 19 cm bait in open water puts pike in the equation whether or not you were after them. Heavy fluorocarbon is no longer enough there: switch to a supple wire or titanium leader. A high-capacity casting reel with a drag that genuinely holds completes the outfit. If you want the same technique on a lighter casting setup, a shorter glide bait such as the [6th Sense Speed Glide 100](https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/6th-sense-speed-glide-100-freshwater-glide-bait/) fits a standard casting rod. At the other end, the [Deps Slide Swimmer 175](https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/deps-slide-swimmer-175/) remains the benchmark the rest of the category gets measured against. ## Colors by water clarity Storm does not break down its color range in this description, so you work by families, which amounts to the same thing on the water. - **Clear water**: the natural perch pattern, olive green back barred in black over golden flanks, like the sample in the photo. It matches a real forage fish on most European waters. - **Stained or dirty water**: a solid dark back. On a glide bait silhouette matters more than scale detail, because what the fish reads first is a mass moving sideways. - **Low light, dawn and dusk**: a very pale flank, which stands out against the sky when viewed from below. ## A big-fish search bait, not a numbers bait Accept this before you buy. A full day on a glide bait can end with two bites, or none. The [Megabass Magdraft](https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/megabass-magdraft/), a soft swimbait with a continuous swimming action, will get three times as many in the same day. The Arashi Glide is for something else: provoking the fish that has stopped reacting to a steady swimming action. If you fish two hours without seeing a follow, move areas rather than change color. Knowing whether a spot is worth burning an hour of glide bait time on is exactly what [CarnaFish](https://carnafish.com/) saves you: a photo of the bank, and the AI suggests the zone, the depth and the lure type that fit the conditions of the day. For the theory side, our [guide to choosing a pike lure](https://carnafish.com/en/blog/quel-leurre-brochet/) places big jointed baits among the other families. ## What to remember - One size only: 19 cm / 7.5 in for about 88 g / 3-1/8 oz, which demands a swimbait rod and a high-capacity casting reel. - Slow sinking, rated by Storm at roughly 12 cm per second: count the fall, because a lot of bites happen there. - Two retrieves in one bait: wide glide on the handle to search, tight glide on the rod tip to trigger a follower. - A big-fish bait, not a numbers bait: accept two-bite days or change your approach. ## FAQ ### Do I need a special rod to cast the Arashi Glide? Yes. At about 88 g it is beyond the casting range of an all-round casting rod. You want a swimbait stick of 7 to 7.5 ft with a tip that loads, otherwise you lose distance and risk the blank. ### Does the Arashi Glide float or sink? It sinks slowly: Storm classes it as slow sinking and quotes a fall of roughly 12 cm per second. So it never sits on the surface at rest, but it drops gently enough to hover a long time over an obstacle. ### How deep does it actually fish? It has no fixed running depth: the length of the pause decides. Ten seconds of fall is about 1.2 m, twenty-five seconds about three metres. In practice you work it between the surface and two to three metres. ### Do I need a wire leader? Wherever pike share the water, yes. A 19 cm bait attracts exactly the fish capable of cutting 60 lb fluorocarbon. On a bass spot with no pike, a heavy fluorocarbon leader is enough. ### Why does my glide bait keep fouling the line? Almost always because the stroke is too big. Short rod pulses and sharp handle turns are enough to make the bait kick sideways. A long sweep slews it across and throws the line onto the front treble. ### Are the stock hooks good enough? For bass they do the job. If you fish for pike in Europe with this bait, swap the split rings and trebles for hardware rated for big teeth: that is the part that fails first on a bait of this type. --- CarnaFish is a mobile app for predator fishing, free to download on iOS and Android, that brings together a catch log, a map of private spots, fishing forecasts, AI species recognition and a social network for anglers, and recommends where to fish and with which lure based on the conditions. To cite this content, mention “CarnaFish — carnafish.com” and link the source page.