curl tail grubs

[Jonas Staggs]

how many of you guys fish these? i have a bunch of tiny ones as well as some larger 3" and 4" ribbon tail grubs but I have not had any success with them. 

[Bluebasser86]

I still carry a bunch of grubs and use them fairly often. A 4" Yamamoto or Kalin's grub on a 1/8-1/4oz head and just reeled in slowly is a deadly way to catch them, especially in clear, cooler water.

[Kyle S]

I've typically used them for trailers on things like spinner baits and beetle spins. This morning I've got a 2 1/2" green pumpkin single tail grub Texas rigged on a 1/0 ewg following a pegged 1/8 oz weight. I put a little dab of chartreuse spike it on the tail as well. Haven't fished them this way before so we'll see! Lol I feel like it should be a killer bait.

[Mbirdsley]

Like said above I have used them a lot as trailers for chatter baits and spinner baits.  I bought some green pumpkin ones to actually put in a jig head for small river bass.  Just haven’t gotten around to using them 

[scaleface]

I have used them on jig heads , Beetle spins , texas rigged , Carolina rigged and weightless as a top water .

[MGF]

I grew up fishing a curly tail grub or a hula grub on a lead head jig, especially in the river.

[ChrisD46]

4" grub hopped along the bottom on a 1/8th oz. jig head during the winter is a good way to catch bass.

[MickD]

Nothing smaller than Kalins 5 inch, they work well on LMB, slow steady retrieve.  Mardi gras is my favorite  color, although others report good results for SMB in the brown colors, like motor oil.  (during the mayfly hatch).

[scaleface]

 

Edited . posted in the wrong thread .Dont know how that happened .?

[haggard]

5 hours ago, Jonas Staggs said:

how many of you guys fish these? i have a bunch of tiny ones as well as some larger 3" and 4" ribbon tail grubs but I have not had any success with them. 

A 2 inch curl tail grub on a 1/8 light wire jig head is my go-to for panfish. It's so effective that I have no reason to use anything else. I've also caught largemouth on a 3 inch, but for bass light techniques I usually go for a 3 or 3.5 inch paddletail worm on the same 1/8 jig head.

 

[garroyo130]

The bite has been good on carolina rigged fat alberts in pearl

[DitchPanda]

I use 2inch grubs for crappie and 3 inch grubs for walleye and bass. A 3inch white Mr Twister on a ballhead is skunk repellent..it's kinda like a Ned rig in that it will often produce when nothing else will.

[Guitarfish]

2 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

I use 2inch grubs for crappie and 3 inch grubs for walleye and bass. A 3inch white Mr Twister on a ballhead is skunk repellent..it's kinda like a Ned rig in that it will often produce when nothing else will.

This is exactly my experience except for the white grub.  I go chartruese, with copper flake.  I have never caught anything on white. Really, I mean never.  I know it works for others.

Just like a Rat-l-trap.  I bought twenty different colors and sizes.  Fished them all over the Delta rip rap as recommended by a guide. Zilch, nada, never!  Sold them all in a few lots, cheap.

[Jonas Staggs]

maybe because i been texas rigging them, so theres not enough tail action. jig or pegging the weight might work better.

 

1 hour ago, Guitarfish said:

This is exactly my experience except for the white grub.  I go chartruese, with copper flake.  I have never caught anything on white. Really, I mean never.  I know it works for others.

Just like a Rat-l-trap.  I bought twenty different colors and sizes.  Fished them all over the Delta rip rap as recommended by a guide. Zilch, nada, never!  Sold them all in a few lots, cheap.

 

I have probably caught more fish on a lipless crank than anything.

[MIbassyaker]

A number of years ago, Field & Stream magazine named the Curly Tail grub the #1 lure of all time.

 

A 3" and 4" curly tail grubs on a 1/8 oz ball jighead were the first artificial lures I ever learned to use. Nowadays I use them primarily for river smallies, but I've caught both largemouth and smallmouth, as well as rock bass, crappie, walleye, pike, and channel catfish on them. My wife caught a nice largemouth on vacation over the 4th just jigging a 2" pink curly tail grub off the end of a dock.

[RoLo]

 

When Mister Twister made its debut, I confess that curly-tail grubs made me feel like a kid in candy store.

Action tails have morphed from ribbon-tails, to sickle-tails, to paddle-tails, et al.  

 

Shortly before his passing, Homer Circle was asked to specify his favorite lifetime lure.

Uncle Homer's reply was a "White Curly-tail Grub"    

 

Roger

 

 

[Kyle S]

10 hours ago, ChrisD46 said:

4" grub hopped along the bottom on a 1/8th oz. jig head during the winter is a good way to catch bass.

Winter time and catching fish just don't seem to go together for me lol. Grubs are most certainly going to be added to my arsenal this upcoming cold water season.

[Log Catcher]

The Zoom Fat Albert grubs are very good. I use the twin tail grubs as jig trailers. I Texas rig the single tail grubs with an 1/8 ounce sinker. I've had some very good days fishing them this way for LMB and SMB. I bought a pack of the white ones but can't even get a bite on them.

[Jonas Staggs]

So I think my problem may be from texas rigging (not pegged) them instead of jigging them. Seems like the jig head will impart more action on the tail, than it just free falling with no tail movement from the texas rig.

[scaleface]

The hardest thing to do in bass fishing is rigging a grub , paddle tail , beetle ... on a lead head jig nice and straight . I dont know how you guys do it . No matter how careful I am and how much time I take , the shaft is rarely running down the middle of the lure and the hook exits off to the side . Then the lure runs crooked .  

[Guitarfish]

I rig big 7-12" swimbaits on lead heads for salt water fishing, so doing a little grub is a breeze.  Maybe have someone watch you and give some advice would help you out.  That crooked rig won't catch nothing. 

[scaleface]

8 minutes ago, Guitarfish said:

That crooked rig won't catch nothing. 

Tell me about it . 

[Dorado]

My panic box for multi-species trips always contains grubs. That’s non-negotiable. 
 

3” White grubs have accounted for countless 2-3#’s in high-pressured urban ponds for me over the past few years. Not to mention, all of the bonus channel cats that have also fallen victim
 

The grub is subtle and versatile. With the rod tip high with a fast retrieval, the subsurface bite can be fantastic at night, especially pre spawn.   
 

The grub can be fished in all columns of the water. It’s very effective on an under spin, like the old school roadrunners and as swim jig trailers. It was my go-to walleye and saugeye back in Denver and now I use a 2” grub to sight fish for trout in AZ and for spawning crappie. I like to use a grub on a bettlespin in lieu of the split tail body. 
 

A June bug Fat Albert is one of my favorite night lures for bass of all time. Never gets discussed. Kalin’s makes my favorite design overall. Ron’s craw is a must. Trust me. 
 

Berkely’s Powergrubs are staples. The pumpkinseed is a terrific crawdad pattern and the Christmas Tree is a quintessential panfish color.  
 

A famous Lake Powell guide’s website, waynesworld.com, has fantastic articles about the grubs, which I have saved on my computer for reference. Check it out!
 

Yamamoto’s Shad and baby bass colors are some of my favorite baitfish patterns. As you can tell the humble and unpretentious grub is definitely my confidence bait. A timeless classic, and like a tube, gets often overshadowed by new trendy and overly expensive baits; which is fine by me ?

[OkobojiEagle]

4 hours ago, scaleface said:

The hardest thing to do in bass fishing is rigging a grub , paddle tail , beetle ... on a lead head jig nice and straight . I dont know how you guys do it . No matter how careful I am and how much time I take , the shaft is rarely running down the middle of the lure and the hook exits off to the side . Then the lure runs crooked .  

Use a darning needle to run a straight pilot channel down your baits, your hooks will follow in the channel more easily...

 

oe

[FishTank]

I have been using Mister Twister's and the Berkley Power Grub in any bright color for crappie and GYCB 4' Grub in green pumpkin for bass.