Selecting Grub Colors ? 2025

ChrisD46 reply :

When looking at selecting single curly tail grub colors is the consensus that a single tail curly grub imitates a minnow or shad thus a white pearl , green pumpkin and smoke colors would about cover grub colors needed - your thoughts and experiences ?

*I am eyeing up the fairly new Gene Larew "Rally Grubs" and need a few colors that would cover me for bass : http://www.genelarew.com/rallygrub

Dorado reply :

Those rally grubs look fantastic. Pearl and smoks are essential. I would add the following colors to your arsenal:

-GYCB Grub In baby bass and natural shad

-Berkley PowerGrub in Pumpkin Seed

-Kalin’s Lunker Grub in Ron’s Craw

Grubs also imitate bass fry and baby crawdads so don’t neglect those patterns when covering the spectrum

MIbassyaker reply :

I have so many curly-tail grubs, 2" to 5", in every color imaginable -- they have got to be the all-around fish-catchingest artificial lures on the planet. There is a time, place, and species for every color.

Nowadays I use them mostly for river smallies, who don't seem too picky about color in my experience. White, smoke, & green pumpkin should about cover it for most general purpose bassing. If you want more (who doesn't?), black is always useful all-purpose, all-conditions. Pumpkin/amber colors I use to match the crayfish in my area. Yellow, orange, and chartreuse are old-school recommendations for dingy, low-visibility water.

Dorado reply :

ChrisD46 reply :

Thanks for the replies - enough to get started with !

Chance_Taker4 reply :

I feel really stupid because I have never used a grub for bass. I have Fluorescent Orange, Pink, Chartreuse, and white for walleye and crappie but they are never in the boat when I'm targeting bass.

snake95 reply :

On 4/17/2018 at 8:15 PM, Chance_Taker4 said:

I feel really stupid because I have never used a grub for bass. I have Fluorescent Orange, Pink, Chartreuse, and white for walleye and crappie but they are never in the boat when I'm targeting bass.

Man, I felt that way too. Started replacing my TRD's with 3 inch YUM grubs in white and fishing them with varying retrieves, and now one of my top bass-catchers - often get whatever other species are nearby too - Walleye, trout, you name it.

@ChrisD46

I fish 3" YUM grubs in white, silver flash, and pumpkin (brown pumpkin), just because that's what I find at Walmart. They all work.

I'm starting to fish heavier grubs too but get tons of bites on the 3"ers.

OkobojiEagle reply :

My modus operandi for grubs is skittering them across the bottom as I interpret craw dads to do, so I keep my colors to pumpkin or green pumpkin. I use a soft plastic swim bait in Ayu colors to swim higher in the water column.

Dorado reply :

On 4/17/2018 at 10:11 PM, snake95 said:

Man, I felt that way too. Started replacing my TRD's with 3 inch YUM grubs in white and fishing them with varying retrieves, and now one of my top bass-catchers - often get whatever other species are nearby too - Walleye, trout, you name it.

@ChrisD46

I fish 3" YUM grubs in white, silver flash, and pumpkin (brown pumpkin), just because that's what I find at Walmart. They all work.

I'm starting to fish heavier grubs too but get tons of bites on the 3"ers.

My favorite way to catch post spawn bass is to “wake” a 3” white grub at night. You gotta try it!

roadwarrior reply :

I thought they only came in white?

mattkenzer reply :

On 4/18/2018 at 12:01 AM, roadwarrior said:

I thought they only came in white?

Nope .... Off-White as well.

blckshirt98 reply :

I don't really fish single tail grubs by themselves but I imagine color selection would be same as first time crankbait buying - a light, a dark, a green, a red/orange. Bring in other colors as they give you confidence in certain bodies of water/situations.

I personally use single tail grubs as chatterbait trailers so I have a bunch of colors to match the chatterbait, and the Kalin's grubs are my favorite. Blue Pearl is one of the more versatile colors, with a nice shimmy in the water.

snake95 reply :

On 4/17/2018 at 10:56 PM, Dorado said:

My favorite way to catch post spawn bass is to “wake” a 3” white grub at night. You gotta try it!

Cool, will do.

I also use the Yamamoto stretch 40 with a light wire worm or EWG hook 2/0 or 1/0 as a “finesse top water.” Honestly was a huge success for me in calm shallow water last year. Reel fast enough to create a wake and you’re good. Just don’t expect tails to stay attached more than one fish. I got the old stretch 40’s on closeout and obviously others would be great too. Ugly Root beer green something or other. Didn’t mention at first since a weird shape for a grub but similar tail.

Log Catcher reply :

I throw grubs on a texas rig. Got green pumpkin, watermelon seed, junebug, chartruse, and root beer pepper green. I don't have white in my arsenal.

Dorado reply :

All this grub talk gave me the itch to throw one tonight. It’s so consistent post spawn for my waters it’s like clockwork. Chartreuse Roadrunner with a white 3” Zoom grub

ChrisD46 reply :

On 4/18/2018 at 7:20 AM, Log Catcher said:

I throw grubs on a texas rig. Got green pumpkin, watermelon seed, junebug, chartruse, and root beer pepper green. I don't have white in my arsenal.

*I would think white / pearl would be a staple to imitate shad ?

Dorado : Nice !! ... Chartreuse Roadrunner with a white 3” Zoom grub for the win !!

Log Catcher reply :

On 4/19/2018 at 5:56 AM, ChrisD46 said:

*I would think white / pearl would be a staple to imitate shad ?

Dorado : Nice !! ... Chartreuse Roadrunner with a white 3” Zoom grub for the win !!

I very rarely fish a grub like a swimbait. I usually twitch them along on the bottom and it has worked very well for me.

papajoe222 reply :

I look at two things to determine what color to throw. Water clarity and bottom color. Clear or Chart with pepper for clear water, smoke to green pumpkin for lightly stained water and PB&J or plum for heavy stained. If I'm fishing it on the bottom, I like to match the bottom's color a shade or two darker so it stands out.

On 4/18/2018 at 12:01 AM, roadwarrior said:

I thought they only came in white?

Of all the colors I carry, I don't think I even own solid white. Go figure.

All about da bass reply :

On 4/17/2018 at 4:49 AM, ChrisD46 said:

When looking at selecting single curly tail grub colors is the consensus that a single tail curly grub imitates a minnow or shad thus a white pearl , green pumpkin and smoke colors would about cover grub colors needed - your thoughts and experiences ?

*I am eyeing up the fairly new Gene Larew "Rally Grubs" and need a few colors that would cover me for bass : http://www.genelarew.com/rallygrub

Fluorescent colors like plum for deep and darker colors like watermelon seed or watermelon red for shallow. Those choices of colors have really helped me in the tournaments as far as not wasting time or money on certain colors.

jtharris3 reply :

A white grub is a staple for river smallmouth for me.

thinkingredneck reply :

I just bought some grubs to try. Don't know why I never tried them before. Got shad color and chart pepper. Gonna try them several ways. They seem to be cool on a scrounger head and a plain fish head jig.. may TX rig too.

scaleface reply :

Most of the time when I'm fishing a grub it is exactly like a worm and colors as well . I also like to rig them on a 1/16th ounce head and buzz them on top .

fishwizzard reply :

On 4/18/2018 at 3:31 AM, snake95 said:

Cool, will do.

I also use the Yamamoto stretch 40 with a light wire worm or EWG hook 2/0 or 1/0 as a “finesse top water.” Honestly was a huge success for me in calm shallow water last year. Reel fast enough to create a wake and you’re good. Just don’t expect tails to stay attached more than one fish. I got the old stretch 40’s on closeout and obviously others would be great too. Ugly Root beer green something or other. Didn’t mention at first since a weird shape for a grub but similar tail.

Hah, I was just going to post about the Stretch 40. I also picked some up on closeout, but in chart/chart glitter. I have been fishing them like a fat senko, t-rigged with a drag and drop or wacky rigged. I will have to try burning one across the top.

You are right about how fragile they are, I am lucky to get one fish t-rigged and then maybe one or two more wacky.

WRB reply :

Use the same color grubs as you do worms.

The grub referenced looks like a kick tail, haven't seen any for a for years, good action.

Tom

Gundog reply :

I got plenty of grubs in many forms. I got single tail, double tail, ripple tail, triple tail and spear tail. 3", 4", 5" and even 6". Colors range from clear smoke and char. to black and almost every color in between. I use them on jig head and on spinner baits as a trailer. A single grub can be the difference between catching lots of fish and catching none. Its one of the baits I never leave home with out.

cgolf reply :

For me it has been pretty simple. Very similar colors to what I use for tubes.

Kalins Ron’s Craw, works in all water colors

Water Red, works in all water colors

Kalins Bluegill clear water

and that about covers it. Up here though perch and bluegill are prevalent so that probably helps with the above colors.

snake95 reply :

On 4/23/2018 at 1:54 AM, fishwizzard said:

I will have to try burning one across the top.

I think anyone who does this with a stretch 40 in calm water, relatively shallow and clear, post-spawn, will be surprised at what a deadly topwater this lure is.

basscatcher8 reply :

Like others I love to fish them texas rigged weightless and then buzz them at the surface. Doesn't make as much commotion as a buzzbait but the strikes are as hard.

ChrisD46 reply :

Good replies ! I ordered the Gene Larew Rally Grub in : Glacier , GP Candy , Chartreuse and lastly Shimmer Shad - that should be enough to cover most any water situation !

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