Hula Grub How-To

[HeadHunter13]

These look like a cool bait. I was wondering the best ways to rig and fish them. Bought some today in watermellon/red.

[vtbassin]

I have had good luck with them on a football head jig dragged on the bottom.

 

 

[BassFishingMachine]

I fish them in a few ways.

1. T-rig them with a free sliding/pegged bullet weight. When I rig them like this, I just kinda hop/pause them along. Its pretty much a finesse style of mine.

2. I "thread" them onto a jighead. Not a skirted jig, but a ordinary jighead, or jighead with built in weedguard. By thread I mean I stick the hook into the bait through the skirted end, and thread the hook all the way up the hula grub until it gets to about a little less then a half inch from where the two curly tails form. Should look like this http://www.conquistadortackle.com/ConquestJigPages/JigPhotos/FootballPhotos/SpiderJig.jpg. I fish this style also when I'm looking for a finesse approach. I kill with it in rivers, and rocky bottom terrains. Also works great in muddy bottom terrains. If I'm fishing weeds I prefer a standard jig. When fishing them like this, slowly hop them/crawl em along the bottom. Give alot of pauses between 3-5secs or 8-11secs depending on how slow/fast the fish want it. Most of the time its 3-5secs, but the 8-11 sec pause works wonders on some days. You basiclly fish it like a standard bass jig when rigged on a jighead.

3. As a trailer bait. The hula grub makes for a great trailer. Not only on jigs, but also on chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, and anything else you could think of. Try swimming a jig with the hulagrub as a trailer. Although if your swimming a jig the best trailer for the job would be a Ragetail Chunk IMHO, although the Hulagrub is alot more durable.

Thats pretty much all the ways I put them to use. I have yet to try fishing them weightless, but Im sure it would work. I would also consider rigging them weightless and slowly twitching em ontop of weedmats. I know this tactic works great with the Wooly Hawgtail, have yet to try it with the hula grub, but I'd give it a shot.

[Jeff C.]

I like um a lot..

I prefer a 3/0 EWG hook texas style w/ a 1/8 oz

bullet and drag or jig the bottom.

black & blue is a great color also.

Jeff

[Pigsticker]

I have had good luck with them on a football head jig dragged on the bottom.

Same

I have had some bites and hook ups swimming  a pumpkin w/black and green flake colored 4 incher  on a regular no-frills jig head during prespawn and early spawn period never landed one though nothing big 1.5 lbs or less,

the big 6inch ones interest me, I might try these out weightless or t-rigged with a little bullet weight to see what I get

[fishntime]

Gary Yammamoto Hula Grubs, are hands down my favorite bait. I fish them on a 1/4 oz. roundball jig head. Ive caught many different sized bass with this bait. I actually caught my PB for Diamond Valley Lake on this bait. It weighed in at 7.8, I fish them shallow or deep.

Good colors are Watermelon with gold flake,

                        Watermelon with black flake, and

                Black with silver flake

[ghost]

I've put a hula grub on a chatterbait & have had success.  I like it better that way than how the chatterbaits come in.  The hula grub works much better.

[bigfruits]

i caught my PB on a 5" double tail yamamoto hula grub on a 1/4oz black arkie style jighead with weedguard.

it was also the first day i had ever used a jig. talk about a confidence builder.

[Primus]

Those are all good suggestions, another productive jighead to use with this bait is the Bite Me Jacobs Jig, it has a light weedguard, crosseyed bullet head with an excellent bait keeper.

[Joel W]

The Hula Grub has been a go to bait for me this summer. I mostly fish it tx rigged on a 3/0 EWG hook with a 1/4 oz unpegged bullet weight. I fish it just like any other bottom bait. hop, pause, repeat. I've also used it as a trailer on a 1/2 & 1 oz jigs. Makes for some really nice bulk with the jig.  Favorite colors are Watermelon with black flake and black with blue flakes. Come to think of it, that's mostly what I use for all my plastics with Green pumpkin thrown in too.

[avid]

I used the hula grub with alot of success in the winter of '06. I put it skirt up on a booyah 1/4 oz jig. There was a particular length of shoreline on my home lake where this combo would slay em. The skirt of the grub gave a very full appearance to the jig and slowed the fall. It remains the most successful jig trailer i have ever used for pitching to weed edges in 4-8 feet of water. Black/blue for both jig and grub.

[Jig Thrower]

hands down best bait invented i hook mine on a 1/4 oz weedless jig head and fish it off of the bottom and constantly shake the rod it is hardly setting still and works like a charm green pumpkin and watermelon with black flakes are my tops

[heathen]

I like dragging them across rocky bottoms with a football head jig.

[.ghoti.]

One of my go-to baits this year has been a GYCB 5" Hula Grub on a Shake2 head.

If you haven't tried the Shake2 head yet, you'd better.

[Sam]

So I am fishing the Sky Meadow State Park pond off Route 17 and having good success with my Senko and a pickup truck pulls up, parks and two guys get out.

They ask me if I am catching anything and I say yes, I have caught seven small bass on my Senko.

They say they have fished the pond all summer and had never caught a single fish.  So I tell them to stand near me and fish by the drain as this is the deepest part of the pond and it is where I am catching my bass and getting strikes.

One of the guys rigs up his spinning rig and then walks over to me to show me a bait he had bought earlier in the week but has never used it.  He opens the package and has no idea which is the head and which is the tail.

He shows it to me and asks me if I have ever seen it before.  I say yes, it is a Gary Yamamoto Hula Grub.

He then asks me how to fish it.  So I tell him to rig it up Texas style and throw it out and let's see what happens.

He does and within five minutes he catches his first ever bass out of the pond.  Nothing big. About the size of the ones I was catching, about 14 inches.

I had to leave as he was releasing the bass so I have no idea if he caught any others, but my point is that he had no idea what the Hula Grub was or how to fish it and he caught a bass.

Go figure.  ;D

[catchnm]

We talking about the double tail or single tail grub here?

[Sam]

Catchum,

The guy at Sky Meadow had the double tail.

It looked like a pumpkinseed but I really did not look at it in detail nor did I see the package.

I like the double tail for more action.  

[Tokyo Tony]

I've put a hula grub on a chatterbait & have had success. I like it better that way than how the chatterbaits come in. The hula grub works much better.

ghost, that is a tremendous idea. I will try it out tomorrow. That combines two of my favorite baits.

Usually I fish the Hula Grub on a 1/16 to 1/4 oz weedless ball jighead, and I absolutely love it  

[Jeff C.]

never tried them on a chatter bait,,

sounds great..

did your chatter bait also have a skirt ?

Jeff

[catchnm]

Well I rigged a Kinami DT grub (same as a DT Hula) in watermelon/red today on a split shot rig. Real basic, 3/0 EWG hook and a 3/16 round split shot crimped right on the line. Caught a nice 2 pound chunk on it. It looks more like a crawdad coming thru the water than anything I've seen lately. Pretty impressive.

[njpaulc]

You can also try them as a sustitute for a jig and pig when fishing docks in clear water.