Yum crawbug/BPS Flippin craw

[RAINCLOUD36]

:-?Have any of you used either of these products for LMB? If so how do you normally rig them? They both look like they would work as a jig trailer or Texas rigged but I would like to know what kind of success you have had with them.

[bass109]

I never really had any luck on yum crawbugs.

[roadwarrior]

I have some of the smaller version. They actually look pretty cool, especially the brown/orange matched up with a hair jig. However, although I have caught a couple of fish on the combo, it's nothing special. I feel like they just worked "okay" when anything else would have been just as good or better.

[luckyinkentucky]

I love fishing the YUM Crawbugs of both 3 1/4" and 2 1/2" in Black Neon, Green Pumpkin, Red Shad Green Flake, and Green Pumpkin Chartreuse.  

A little trick I like to take credit for is to Texas Rig them with the bullet weight backwards, and a clear glass bead between the hook and weight.  

Use a 2/0 Mister Twister worm keeper hook, and 're-skin' the craw after you put the hook through the top from the bottom.  This will make it completely weedless, and allow for the most action.

What the bullet weight backwards does is throw up a little debris when you scoot it across the bottom imitating a live crawdad.  The clicking action from the clear glass bead and weight hitting together imitates that chattering they do when they are digging in as well.  

I have a lot of action on them in the Fall (now), and during and right after the spawn.  As a matter of fact when I fish the spawn I only take my worm bag with me loaded with Zellamanders of various sizes/colors, and a crawbug assortment of various sizes/colors.  

Also, most people laugh at attractant sprays, but I will be the first to tell you that YUM in Crawdad or Shad works every time.  I've caught numerous fish on it, and I can't begin to tell you how many times my fishing buddies have laughed at me up to the point where I start pulling them in!  

Largemouth have a whole line of scent receptors on their sides, and when they pick the trail up from the YUM spray they make a 'B-Line' for the smell.  It's important to throw the bait at least 3 times in the same area, and work it until you get to the boat.  Don't fish the 'strike zone' and reel in thinking you've missed it.  With this stuff they will follow the bait up to the boat.  

Some people don't like the YUM crawbugs because they don't have the patience for them, and that's fine.  I just get good results from them when I do the  'tap-tap-tap' reel method on the bottom.  It takes me a couple of minutes to get the bait back in sometimes, but it's because I want to mimic a live crawdad.  If you fish it too fast you might as well give it up for a faster retrieve bait.  

[.dsaavedra.]

i like the looks of yum crawbugs they are the most real looking craws out their besides the huddlebug, but i havent gotten anything on them. i have a set of the pre riged ones and i dont fish em alot. maybe i'll fish them this suday since the fall fishing should be picking up here shortly.

[Fishin-Psyantist]

Here is a  yum crawbug rigging demo found on google.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3089997722209916548&q=yum+crawbug&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0