Yamamoto Dt Hula Grub

[bass1980]

Just want peoples thoughts and opinions on these baits. I haven't had much luck on them but every time there is a sale on them I tend to buy a pack or two just collecting colors I guess . I've had much success on their line up of senkos, D shads, swim senkos, and Hula swimmers.

 

Have you guys had much success on them?

How do you rig them up?

How do you fish them?

What kind of structure are you fishing them in?

[KevO]

Put it on a 1/2 oz football jig and drag it on the bottom.  It's my bait of choice when nothing else works.  Has turned a couple days of getting skunked into 20#+ sacks on KY and Barkley.

 

 

[jignfule]

If the skirt on my jig gets a little lean, I will use a hula grub as a trailer.

[rockfish]

Just recently I acquired some packs in various colors. last week nothing else was working so I threw on a purple red flake 5inch one, just texas rigged with a ewg. Ended up catching a few just dragging and hopping rigged that way. Just my experience.

[Will Wetline]

It's been among my top 5 go-to baits for years.

 

I fish the 5" usually in color #176 T-rigged with a 3/16 oz. bullet, a faceted 6mm red glass bead and a 2/0 regular wire Gamakatsu EWG hook. This is tied to 10 lb. copolymer line.

 

I use a drag and pause retrieve  around rocks and weed for smallmouth.

[michang5]

I've rigged the 4" chartreuse one as a trailer for chatterbaits and swimjigs. Have had a small amount of success.

Ordered two packs recently -- chartreuse and watermelon. Both 4".

Any successful ideas on using the smaller size? Carolina rig? Small shakey head or bare jig hook? Or is the smallest size best suited for my trailer application?

[michael68w]

I've had some great luck with them on 1/2oz football heads just dragging and hoping them around on the bottom. I've also had luck stroking them on ledges. 9 times out of 10 im fishing them in some sort of rock whether its chunk rock, bluff walls or rock ledges, pea gravel, boulders, etc. Then can also be really awesome to fish on deep water humps!

[WRB]

The Hula grub is a spider jig trailer. The original grub and spider collar was made Bobby Garrland before he came out with his Gizzit tubes. Back in those days we had the collars made from soft plastic for the skirt and added the single or double tail 4" grubs to stand up or football heads and they worked good in western reserviors.

Gary Yamamoto tooled the hula Skirt and grub as one piece making it easier to use. The 4" and 5" Hula grubs are very easy to fish on 1/4, 3/8 or 1/2 oz plain football heads and GYC makes a good jig head with Owner ot Gamakatsu hooks at reasonable prices. Fish a spider jig like you would a T-rigged worm; cast and hop along the rocky hard area bottom or sloping banks etc. you can also swim the jig.

Tom

[craww]

Great bait...My grandfather caught some huge fish on them in the 90's. Just SLOWLY dragging them with a light bullet weight out front.

They are THE bait to use on a chatterbait...lift and drop and let those legs flutter. No other craw/paddle tail type trailer can match them. I pinch the "skirt" off the grub and use the silicone skirt. GY makes a twin tail grub also, but I get the hula grub since it can be used for more techniques.

[bass1980]

Thanks for the reply everyone. Keep them coming. If anyone is interested they are for sale for the 4" version at $2.19 at Overstockbaits!!!

[Montanaro]

caught pb smallie on a motoroil one on a jighead.