We in our 50s & 60s also remember catching lots of fish on a curly-tailed grub. The tail holds the bait up in the water column just long enough. l still use them in tough conditions along with hair jigs.
The jig head is good for FFS, but I use a plain jig hook 1/0, the minnow you showed, and push a 1/16 or 1/8 neko weight in the front of the minnow. It gives it a balanced presentation and you can actually slow it down on tight line and it will stay in one location above them. I enjoy your new format of the content of just talking. Keep up the great work!
Thanx Tyler, Still have the hula grubs and they do still work. Put them on a 3/16oz football jighead or Texas rig and throw it in the thick stuff. Spybait check, I bought one, but that's about it. I'll get around to it thanks for the push.
Caught my pb an 8lber on a arkie salty crawlin grub. Have a ton of them. And have caught boat loads of bass. I use it on a home made 1/4 oz weedless round ball head.
Keep forgetting about the hula grub , I'm going to go pull out my bag and throw it on the boat , I use a 1/4 oz owner blockhead offset so that its weedless , a killer here in Tennessee from about now til the end of spring
It’s good all winter for me and I don’t hesitate to throw the 5 inch ones on a football head and drag it around the ledges in the summer either. About the only time I don’t want one close is the fall when it’s really all about the shad. Smallmouth love them. It’s just an extra finesse version of a jig to me.
Years ago I got a hula grub style bait called the Man O War by Mann's I believe. I tried it here and there, but never caught anything on it up north. I actually still have the bait, and now want to bust it out and try down here in the south.
I absolutely LOVE the spybaits. I've caught hundreds of peacock bass on all the versions DUO has. And a few more on other brands. They're an absolute fun to fish on BFS, where I usually use the 60, 80 Shallow and the 62 Alpha. For the size 80 and above, I like to put a blade treble on the back for that extra flash.
Great reminder, Tyler! I keep forgetting to pull out my hula grubs, but those are money! Also have not tried the spy bait and the pond, yet, but need to give that a shot too.
Tyler, other videos mention using spybaits with very light 4 lbs. fluoro. Even 6 lbs., some say, is stretching it too far. What do you use? On the tiny minnow baits, one of my favorite versions is a 60 degree bent jig hook with a medium sized Owner centering pin to screw a minnow plastic onto. Lots of area for the bass to bite down to set a good hook. I have the spybait you mention, will give it a go!
You mentioned in bait #3 that it's also called a hover rig, but the hover rig is something completely different than a damiki rig or like a nedmiki etc.
Tyler, I jig fish quite a bit but have never used the Hula Grub on a jig. If I was fishing it in the Winter, would the presentation be a little big for that slow time of year? Or, does Yamamoto make a smaller version? Thanks
We in our 50s & 60s also remember catching lots of fish on a curly-tailed grub. The tail holds the bait up in the water column just long enough. l still use them in tough conditions along with hair jigs.
The jig head is good for FFS, but I use a plain jig hook 1/0, the minnow you showed, and push a 1/16 or 1/8 neko weight in the front of the minnow. It gives it a balanced presentation and you can actually slow it down on tight line and it will stay in one location above them. I enjoy your new format of the content of just talking. Keep up the great work!
Love the content. A suggestion, do a boat organization/tackle organization video.
Great stuff, what size Hula grub to you like best for Smallies?
The spybait is so killer. I’ve landed a 45lb. catfish on the 80 g-fix and a 10.6lb. bass on the 72 Alpha. Amazing bait.
Thanx Tyler, Still have the hula grubs and they do still work. Put them on a 3/16oz football jighead or Texas rig and throw it in the thick stuff.
Spybait check, I bought one, but that's about it. I'll get around to it thanks for the push.
Caught my pb an 8lber on a arkie salty crawlin grub. Have a ton of them. And have caught boat loads of bass. I use it on a home made 1/4 oz weedless round ball head.
How do you fish the hula grub?
Keep forgetting about the hula grub , I'm going to go pull out my bag and throw it on the boat , I use a 1/4 oz owner blockhead offset so that its weedless , a killer here in Tennessee from about now til the end of spring
It’s good all winter for me and I don’t hesitate to throw the 5 inch ones on a football head and drag it around the ledges in the summer either. About the only time I don’t want one close is the fall when it’s really all about the shad. Smallmouth love them. It’s just an extra finesse version of a jig to me.
Years ago I got a hula grub style bait called the Man O War by Mann's I believe. I tried it here and there, but never caught anything on it up north. I actually still have the bait, and now want to bust it out and try down here in the south.
What size hook would you put on a Duo Realis Spinbait 80 AM Edge / 3 1/8"?
I absolutely LOVE the spybaits. I've caught hundreds of peacock bass on all the versions DUO has. And a few more on other brands. They're an absolute fun to fish on BFS, where I usually use the 60, 80 Shallow and the 62 Alpha. For the size 80 and above, I like to put a blade treble on the back for that extra flash.
Great reminder, Tyler! I keep forgetting to pull out my hula grubs, but those are money! Also have not tried the spy bait and the pond, yet, but need to give that a shot too.
Tyler, other videos mention using spybaits with very light 4 lbs. fluoro. Even 6 lbs., some say, is stretching it too far. What do you use? On the tiny minnow baits, one of my favorite versions is a 60 degree bent jig hook with a medium sized Owner centering pin to screw a minnow plastic onto. Lots of area for the bass to bite down to set a good hook. I have the spybait you mention, will give it a go!
In most situations I use 8lb. If i am fishing super deep then 6lb
The hula grub puts in work
I have used them all and they are great baits.
Love the hula grub.
What’s your seminar going to be? I hadn’t seen you on the schedule. Were you a late addition?
I like the single tail Hula Grub
How deep is the normal "bottom " depth when you are fishing bottom. What do you do with water depths of 200'?
You mentioned in bait #3 that it's also called a hover rig, but the hover rig is something completely different than a damiki rig or like a nedmiki etc.
Yes the rig itself is different but the concept of fishing it is the same
Tyler, I jig fish quite a bit but have never used the Hula Grub on a jig. If I was fishing it in the Winter, would the presentation be a little big for that slow time of year? Or, does Yamamoto make a smaller version? Thanks
They have a 4 and 5 inch version
@@bfishin2183 Thanks! Now just gotta find a plain jig head. I guess since you’re trying to imitate a crawfish, a football head would be best.
Four and five inch Hula Grub in color 176 is money. Drag it on a football head and they eat it .
Now I know I’m going to sound like old timer (I’m not), but a size 3 mepps is an absolute smallie slayer in finesse scenarios and no one mentions it.
Hula grub on a Gamakatsu Alien head is money! Weedless
Great tips
I can never get the bait links to work on your videos.
Hint hint. Put it on a chatterbait and don’t forget the drop of super glue above the hula grub skirt!!👍
Time for a lake breakdown?
Are you ok you haven’t uploaded in 3 days
I'm tellin you what
Bruh !!!!!!! Why
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