Plastic grubs 2024
Mobasser reply :
When Mister Twister first introduced the curly tail grub, my older brother was quick to use this bait. He proved its effectiveness to me several times. We had been fishing and had caught a few bass early one morning, but hadn't had a strike in over an hour. Moving to a small point,he began casting a 3" grub and caught 4 keeper fish in 5 cast. Counting the grub down, and reeling with a slow retrieve, as long as the grub was coming just over the weeds, he caught a fish.One of my first lessons in speed and depth. I've carried grubs for many years, and they have always produced. They also do double duty as jig or spinnerbait trailers, and larger sizes can be Texas rigged and hopped or swam on or near bottom. Some that I've used are Mister Twister, Riverside grubs from Wal Mart, and the Charlie Brewer 3" paddle tail grub, rigged on a slider head. I'd like to try the Rage tail grub too.My older brother got to using a grub Every time we went fishing to the point that I started calling him a grubby kind of guy. If your a novice fisherman, and new to bass fishing, I would urge you to pack some plastic grubs along. Sometimes in all this new bass fishing stuff, a simple rig is still the best. Keep your rig simple, and focus on speed and depth control, the real key to catching bass consistently. I know many smallmouth fisherman use them, but they can work just as well on largemouth bass too. Simple? Yes. Effective? You bet. Glen has a great video on this site, and there's much info available on grub fishing. Are you still fishing grubs for bass? I've been a "grubby" kind of guy for years now.
Junger reply :
I always carry GY single and double tail grubs.
Log Catcher reply :
I have several colors of Zoom grubs in the boat. I generally don't use them unless the bite is really tough and I need to downsize. I had a day a few years ago I couldn't get a bite. I switched to a grub and caught 9 that day. Caught both large and smallmouth on them that day. I always use mine as a Texas rig. I use a 1/0 skip gap hook with an 1/8 ounce sinker.
fishballer06 reply :
I always have a pack or two of Fat Alberts on me.
roadwarrior reply :
The Rage Tail Menace has replaced grubs for me.
Jelvas reply :
I´ve been known for enjoying fishing the occasional grub... 
Now on a more serious note, i have said it before and i´ll say it again... when everything else fails a grub is my savior!
It´s probably my number one confidence lure, i´ve caught bass, zander, pike, wels catfish, barbel, carp etc etc... on them, i´ve caught small fish, medium fish and big fish with them, i´ve caught fish on winter, spring, summer and fall with them... you get the idea.
If you´re not fishing a curly tail grub you don´t now what you´re missing...
RB 77 reply :
A proven fish catcher year after year. I like to rig them on the Owner Sled Head Screw-Lock.
Tennessee Boy reply :
I've fished Zoom Fat Albert grubs for at least 25 years.
JLBBass reply :
I buy Kalins in 100 pack bulks! LOVE grub fishing!
scaleface reply :
5 inch grubs are great on a Carolina rig too . Kalins had a color called Witches Brew which was brown and chartreuse tail . It really worked well on a Carolina rig out on the points .
Steveo-1969 reply :
I used to fish curly-tail grubs on a ball head jig quite a bit for river smallmouth, but the past several years they have been replaced with small paddletail swimbaits.
I do still use grubs in the winter months for river walleyes, though this winter I've had more bites on the paddletails.
Columbia Craw reply :
One of the best days I ever had was pitching a five inch fat Albert Texas rigged around buck brush. Lots of ways to fish them. Good dialogue.
BassWhole! reply :
I'm squarely on the grub wagon. On a jig head or swim jig or even weightless or split shot sometimes.
MN Fisher reply :
On 1/18/2019 at 12:48 AM, reason said:I'm squarely on the grub wagon. On a jig head or swim jig or even weightless or split shot sometimes.
Add to that, trailers on spinners/chatters/buzzbaits. They really are all-purpose plastics.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I carry a gallon bag of nothing but grubs in my boat. Most of them are GY grubs, YUM Muy Grubs, or Fat Alberts.
I/MBasser reply :
I always carry Rage Tail Menace grubs and Kalins Lunker grubs.
Arobb2012 reply :
I keep a few packs of Fat Albert's and tab tails with on all river trips.
Dorado reply :
There is a reason why I always have a 3” white Grub rigged on a chartreuse Roadrunner in my panic box, 24-7/365
Grubs are snacks to most gamefish. They will chomp on these, even when they’re not actively feeding. They will chase these when they are actively feeding. Thinking Grubs increase my odds quite a bit.
Subtle like a Ned Rig, but supercharged with the natural propeller-like swimming motion from that single tail that covers all the water columns so effectively.
Kalin’s Grub In Ron’s Craw
Fat Albert in Junebug
these are just a few of my favorite things????
LionHeart reply :
How do you fish a grub? I use them as trailers all the time, but have never fished one with just a bullet weight.
Mobasser reply :
On 1/18/2019 at 9:29 AM, LionHeart said:How do you fish a grub? I use them as trailers all the time, but have never fished one with just a bullet weight.
Most of the time they are rigged on a jig head. Weedgaurds or standard bighead both work. A straight retrieve can be good, or let them sink, raise them up and let fall. For a weedless Texas rig, I like a grub with a slightly longer body, and match the hook size. They are also good on a split shot rig, with a slow steady retrieve, near the bottom
MN Fisher reply :
On 1/18/2019 at 9:29 AM, LionHeart said:How do you fish a grub? I use them as trailers all the time, but have never fished one with just a bullet weight.
On 1/18/2019 at 9:38 AM, Mobasser said:Most of the time they are rigged on a jig head. Weedgaurds or standard bighead both work. A straight retrieve can be good, or let them sink, raise them up and let fall. For a weedless Texas rig, I like a grub with a slightly longer body, and match the hook size. They are also good on a split shot rig, with a slow steady retrieve, near the bottom
If I did rig a grub Texas style, I'd use a 1/16 or 1/8 weight and a keeper hook like the Gamakatsu G-Finesse in any of the three sizes.
Shakey Head jigs would also be good with a twin-tail grub.
Mobasser reply :
On 1/18/2019 at 9:50 AM, MN Fisher said:
If I did rig a grub Texas style, I'd use a 1/16 or 1/8 weight and a keeper hook like the Gamakatsu G-Finesse in any of the three sizes.
Shakey Head jigs would also be good with a twin-tail grub.
Yes. Almost forgot the shakey head. One more way they would work well
bowhunter63 reply :
Grubs been getting it done for a long time.Still a really great river Smallmouth bait.Rage curly tail is a good one.
Dangerfield reply :
I picked up some black and Chartreuse zoom twin tail grubs for swimjig trailers near end of last season. This thread has provide some quality options
Jelvas reply :
On 1/18/2019 at 9:29 AM, LionHeart said:How do you fish a grub? I use them as trailers all the time, but have never fished one with just a bullet weight.
Most of the time i fish them on a normal jighead, if i´m fishing around heavier cover (where the exposed hook of the jighead snags to much) i fish them on a t-rig with the weight pegged with a bobber stopper.
I also use them heavily as trailers for spinnerbaits, chaterbaits and jigs (single and twin tail grubs). They are also one of my favorites trailers for the a-rig as they are cheap and have a lot o action.
Seriously... it´s one of the most versatile and underrated baits there is!
TnRiver46 reply :
I fish any kind of grub. We used to call a sassy shad a "shad grub" and if you were bank fishing below any dam, you were either throwing a shad grub or trying to buy some off another fisherman. I also really love a curly tail , works for any fish any where
MIbassyaker reply :
Field and Stream gave the curly tail grub the top spot in their "50 greatest lures of all time" feature several years ago:
https://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/fishing/bass/2006/04/50-greatest-lures-all-time
A 3" on a ball jighead was one of the first artificial lures I learned to use, along with an in-line spinner and a floating minnow rapala. They caught almost everything, anywhere. Nowadays I only use grubs for river smallies, but I don't have any good reasons to not use them more often -- they never stopped working.
haggard reply :
The 2 inch curl tail grub on a simple ball jig head is my go-to for panfish on a L/F spinning setup, and it catches an occasional bass. Cast it out, swim it back, it always gets something, and it's usually when the lure is almost all the way back to the boat, near the surface. Not bad for less than $3 for a pack of 10 or so. If I don't catch a single bass all day there's some comfort in knowing I can at least catch something on the way back to the launch. It's literally the only lure I run on the L/F spinning setup.
waymont reply :
I'm old school with my grub fishing. My two favorites are the Fat Albert and the Stingray. The 2.5" Stingray on a ball head jighead moves so well in the water. The shape makes it move with a unique flutter. The last two years I have been using the Stingray on 3/16 and 5/16 finesse jigs with excellent success. Very subtle.
cgolf reply :
On 1/18/2019 at 9:29 AM, LionHeart said:How do you fish a grub? I use them as trailers all the time, but have never fished one with just a bullet weight.
I fish them on a slider spider head mostly so that I can fish them in snaggy water.
To the OP I have been using Kalins grub for many years and have tried others, but they can't match the slow retrieve tail action of a Kalins. They also hold up really well too.
scaleface reply :
I have some five inch grubs by Riverside . Once when fishing for river smallmouths I had one rigged on a light jig head . I started buzzing it across the surface and the brownies slammed it for an hour or so .
FCPhil reply :
I caught my first two bass on a cheap painted jig head from walmart and a white grub. I didn’t know much about fishing at all and I thought they were trout. That’s how I got into bass fishing!
LCG reply :
When you guys Texas rig the larger 5in version, do you peg the weight?
Log Catcher reply :
On 1/20/2019 at 2:18 AM, LCG said:When you guys Texas rig the larger 5in version, do you peg the weight?
I always peg my weight no matter what type of soft plastic I'm using.
snake95 reply :
On 1/17/2019 at 11:07 PM, Mobasser said:Are you still fishing grubs for bass?
I fish grubs for bass all the time.
Unlike a lot of folks who fished grubs as a first lure, I came to grub fishing though a circuitous process.
As a kid we didn't use lures much. However, as an adult returning to fishing after a long hiatus, I read about and got good with the ned rig.
One day I tried a white 3" YUM grub in place of my usual TRD, and had great success both on a dead fall, and on a straight retrieve.
Can work as a sort of finesse bottom bait once a mushroom head hits the bottom. Doesn't need much action to get scooped off the bottom.
Now, when I want kids or others to catch fish, the 3" YUM grub in pumpkin, silver, white, etc is my go-to. As they say, they can't be fished wrong, and at less than $1.50 a pack, cheaper than live bait and keeps the kids active.
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