How do you rig a Yamamoto Hula grub?

[Darth-Baiter]

I bought a bunch.  Typical of me.  ZERO BITES!  
 

I’ve been Texas rigging them.  Pegged and unpegged.  No luck.  
 

maybe rig them on a football jig head w weed guard?   Help. Please.  Getting ready for better weather. And spring. 

What about weightless Texas rigged?!

[SproDD79]

I use them as chatterbait trailers to pump up the skirt,  sometimes I use them to beef up football jigs. If I'm not using them to beef up skirts,I like them on a 1/2oz or 3/4oz title shot.

[Glenn]

Here ya go!

 

 

[Jrob78]

I don't really fish them so this isn't personal experience but most people I've seen rig them on a bare jig head, usually a football jig head with or without a weed guard. 

[Columbia Craw]

I fish them much the same as Glenn but will go to a weed guard when stumps are in play.  It’s a staple in my region and I have a dedicated combo just for hulas.

[Jar11591]

I generally throw them on a bare football head with no weed guard, but also Texas rigged and I’ll use them as a trailer on a skirted jig. Hula grubs are one of my go to baits for smallmouth. 

[scaleface]

I Texas rig them in river s for smallmouth .

[Ski]

Caught this girl with one on a shaky head.

[Darth-Baiter]

dang.

 

great ideas.  i think texas rigged weightless throwns into emergent grass would be killer.  they gotta weigh similar to a 5" senko which flings like a bullet.

[Jaderose]

I haven't found much that these aren't good for......

 

Owner Finesse Ball Head.  They also make a football head.

 

[WRB]

Yamamoto created the Hula Grub by combining Bobby Garlands Spider skirt and twin tail grub. Before the Hula grub we bought spider skirts and twin tail grubs and rigged them on a ball or football head jig. Yamamoto offered the spider skirts until 2 years ago. This allowed you to have different color spider skirt and grub.

Hula grubs come in 2 sizes 4” and 5”. Use them both and let the bass tell you what they want.

I have promoted using Hula grubs for decades to learn how to jig fish because they are so effective and easy to use.

1/8 to 1/4 oz ball head with 4” and 3/8 to 3/4 oz for 5”. 

read my Horizontal Jigging article or post.

Post spawn the Slip Shot rig with 3/0 #5133 Owner or J-light wire off set hook works good just slow drag along the bottom, looks like a school of fry.

Tom

 

[GetFishorDieTryin]

My favorite head for the GYCB hulas(4 and 5") is the Hayabusa Shooting ball.  Its a football head a med wire hook 2/0 hook and mono bristle guard.  The hook is small enough to limit snags and if you do snag up the hook will bend and you can bend it back.  Trouble is all of a sudden, they are hard to get, I hope they didnt discontinue them.

2 hours ago, Jaderose said:

I haven't found much that these aren't good for......

 

Owner Finesse Ball Head.  They also make a football head.

 

I like those heads overall, but I wish the eye was closer to 90.  I fish them with light line and the knot really takes a beating because of the angle of the eye.  

[Log Catcher]

I have always rigged mine on shaky head. I catch one once in a while when I can remember to use them.

[RyAxion]

10 hours ago, Jaderose said:

I haven't found much that these aren't good for......

 

Owner Finesse Ball Head.  They also make a football head.

 

Alternatively, I use 3/0, 1/4 oz. VMC Rugby Jig.

[padon]

as you can see lots of ways to rig them. my favorite is a weedless football head and texas. i dont think the reason your not getting bit is how your rigging, its where and when your throwing it.

[Tatulatard]

Years ago I was introduced to a way to fish these I have not heard of since.  It worked incredibly well and I used to do it but stopped.  I stopped because I stopped going down to Tablerock where I learned the technique and my home waters are all silt bottom.  Anyway, you rig up one of these grubs on a chompers head and slow roll it on hard bottom with a moderate rod and mono or today, flouro line.  The bait clanks around on the rocks zig zaging and hunting.  It will hit a rock and stop then load up the rod and line as you keep winding then shoot off and fall down like a crayfish.  You dont jig it.  You don't pause it.  You dont use braid and get overloaded with feedback.  You crank and roll that bait on the bottom and stick them when you feel a fish.  Weird technique I learned about 20 years ago from a guy staying at the same resort as us at the time.  He took my on his boat and made me a believer.  I used it on other trips with great success.   In my home waters all I get is leaf litter and that bottom slime.

 

I do want to use a free rig on these baits some day. I'm not sold on the free rig vs a texas rig with my normal plastics but I think the skirt of a hulla grub can slow the fall and get better weight and bait separation to make the free rig more useful to me.  

[Str8BraidPowa]

I put them on a bare ball head jig 1/8-3/8 oz with 90% of the time being on 1/4 oz. I toss them around lay downs and flats in the shallows. Had some great luck on them when my bigger jig bite is slow.

[NorthernBasser]

If I'm fishing hard bottom with minimal hang-ups, bare football head. Otherwise I'll use a weed guard all other time. Either football head or flipping.

 

[FishTank]

I have fished them several different ways, all with success...... Texas rigged, free rigged, wobble head, weightless, ball head jig and on a skakey head. 

 

I fish it like a football jig, sometimes like swim jig and occasionally I drag it a like tube.