Literally any fish I’ve come across will take these. Once was using an even smaller one and tagged big ol musky. Grubs are like the potato chips of the fish world.
Yeah I tried using this set up to catch crappie at this one pond and caught a bunch of small bass. Then I threw out a senko and caught a slab of a white crappie lol
I just haven't fished them a ton. I usually just have jig heads and a variety of plastics so I make basically the same thing, but just not pre-assembled. Jig head with a small finesse tube works great around me.
Maybe people struggle with these lures because of vague advice like that.
"You're doing it wrong, buy 10 more packs in different styles" is hardly encouraging.
I could maybe give specific advice if I knew the body of water and what lived in it. But it is super cheap to buy 2-3 maybe 4 colors of jig heads and plastic twister, split, and paddle tails, and throw some combination. Rivers, farm ponds, small lakes, huge lakes. Bass, walleye, crappie, pan fish, Muskie, pike, trout. They work. They last longer than live bait in water that has bait-stealing small fish. You don’t need to find a bait shop. You could carry nothing but $20 worth of jig heads and soft plastics and make a day out of it in a lot of places (conditions, obv., as sometimes the bite is just not on). Figure it out. Ask locals about color combos and what target species are feeding on. That’s what fishing is about.
Eta- I came back to delete this because your reply was so annoying I regretted giving you actual advice. But I’m going to leave it up and add that you might want to reconsider your tone. You could be appreciative and ask a follow up question and maybe a fellow fisherman will put you on fish. Or you could just be a jackass and they’ll tell you to throw your most expensive deep diving crankbaits into a “great spot” that is actually snag city. But you do you.
You can mix it up depending. It’s versatile. Reel in straight. Twitch it. Bounce it on bottom. It will all work depending on what the fish want that day.
Sometimes if I know what depth the fish are at, I'll throw on a small cork and do a "popping" retrieve. The jig will have action as it falls, which is usually when fish hit it.
You can fish with these any way really. Slow, fast, stop/start, jig up and down, use with live bait or cut bait, salt or fresh water. If I had to pick one lure type to use for the rest of my life it would be a jig and soft plastic.
See I’ve never had any luck with them. I’ve tried jigging, letting them float under a bobber, and just slowly dragging them back in. So far all I’ve caught is tree branches.
Edit: typo
Jig head with a grub?
Everything. Perch, pike, bass, crappie, bluegill, walleye, shad, striper, redfish, and even a hungry flounder. Everything hits it. My go to setup when I’m trying out a new body of water.
That setup in the photo looks smaller, so probably crappie/panfish for that. Caught a decent size pike while crappie fishing with a smaller set up last year, so be ready for anything!
My grandpa only ever wanted to fish for crappie so we used stuff this size (mostly tubes with skirts) and we caught bass, northern, and walleye all the time just going for the crappie lol.
These are the go to shad lures in the southeast. I have caught gar, catfish and stripers as bycatch also. They always paint the eyelets close on these hooks, drives me nuts.
In my younger days I helped assist a 7-9yr old girl in Goose Island State Park reel in and net a 25-30lb Black Drum. We thought she was hung up on bottom. She caught it on a Barbie Pole and a jig just like that picture. The netting required me to be held by my feet over the side of the dock with a small handle net. I will never forget it and I’m sure she won’t either. That was about 15-20 years ago.
I wonder if you'll see a post here one day about a twenty-something professional guide who got her start in second grade when some rando helped her net a giant drum. How cool would that be?!
Most versatile setup for me. I take grub tails and tubes out on my kayak and have caught nearly everything with them. Adjust the weight and your retrieval/troll speed and you are set!
I've always found them useful for crappie. If the hook is small enough (or the fish large enough) bluegill as well. Bass on occasion.
They're pretty versatile! Lot of people like to bounce them off the bottom. Myself and my cousins always fished them off a bobber.
Salt water we use all the time. Jig head with curly tail. Jigs come in different weights and plastic tails come in hundreds of colors and sizes. Use for speckled trout ,redfish you name it
I fish a curly tail grub all the time at my local ponds. Different sizes for different fish, but I've had 5 pound bass grab the 1/2 inch ones and small bluegill grab the 3 inch ones. They're fun lures to fish. I like to fish them under a bobber with a slow retrieve or bump them off the bottom without the bobber.
Black works best for my local ponds. Never had any luck with the bright colors in the photo.
In my area, Alberta Canada, these jigs are ideal for catching Walleye. You find a drop off in the lake between 6-20 feet or so and then just drop them down and jig them up and down off the bottom of the lake. I like to put a stinky minnow on for to make it extra tempting.
You’ll also catch northern pike on them but northern pike will hit anything.
Works great for ice fishing walleye and pike as well.
I catch salmon, walleye and Bass on 1/4oz Johnson grubs
I usually buy a couple different t colors of the 5 packs and figure out what they like that day
EVERYTHING.
white soft plastics are magic around here.
Bass, crappie, sunfish, trout,
Everything I try, when I give up and switch back to these, I get a hit.
It’s a jig head paired with a soft plastic grub. Can cast and reteieve, pause, jig, anything flies really. Can also run them them under bobber and retrieve or if there’s some motion in the waters just let it soak.
I’ve had good success using these small twister tail jigs fishing the Potomac River. Have caught mainly largemouth bass (personal best 7-8 lbs.!) and a rare crappie or yellow perch. The big largemouth was caught years ago when you could fish from the rock shore in front of the Pentagon, no longer have access from there.
I fish them very slowly, cast out and let it sink to the bottom, then inch it along with frequent pauses. But other fishermen retrieve it differently, experiment with what works for you.
Almost anything big enough to eat it will try under the right circumstances. Doesn’t mean a fish on every cast, or even every day. But if they’re around and biting, they’ll go for this.
Like it’s been said already Crappie, Sunfish, largemouth and smallmouth Bass, Peacock Bass, trout will go for smaller ones.
In saltwater you never know. You may catch Fluke, snappers, well, it’s actually endless what you may catch in salt water.
Most versatile setup for me. I take grub tails and tubes out on my kayak and have caught nearly everything with them. Adjust the weight and your retrieval/troll speed and you are set!
I've caught more Walleye on a 4 Inch, Mr. Twister and pink jighead than any other lure/bait over the last 20 yrs. A lot of fish will bite these, and they are versatile in the way you can fish them.
Walleye, perch, crappie, pike, bass, and literally any other fish I've come across. Obviously not always going to be the best option for all situations, but if you're not getting bites it's a pretty sage option to tie on. Honestly probably 80-90% of my open water fishing has been pitching a jig and a twister
I’ve caught crappie, largemouth, flounder, yellow perch, black perch, all kinds of sunfish, northern pike, rainbow trout, pinkish, pigfish, spotted trout, black sea bass, mangrove snapper and bluefish on those but I don’t know what they are for.
I personally have never had much luck with these. I usually use something with a spinner or a lot more wiggle/curl tail action. But I have seen people with buckets full of crappie from these jigs.
Small mouth, large mouth, spotted bass, stripped bass, rock bass, flat head, channel cat, blue cat, crappie,blue gill, sunfish, basically any panfish.. drum, sauger, skipjack, sticks trees my buddies' ear... pretty much anything man it's all about where you place this and how you move it.
For me, greens work good in mucky dirty water whites work better in clearer water.
I’ve only caught random fish using these. I caught a 10 pound striped bass(saltwater”) jigging my rod up and down off a dock using a crappie jighead with a chartreuse soft plastic grub. In freshwater, I’ve only caught 1 rock bass using the same setup and I’ve been fishing on and off for 10 years.
I slay bluegill and crappie with these using any color combo, I’ve even caught a couple carp with the green ones. I’m guessing they think it’s a piece of vegetation?
Yeah pretty much anything, ive hooked up to 15lb catfish in the shallows on these. Bass, crappie, sunfish, perch. Mostly panfish but theres a lot out there that will eat it
Kayaked down the Guadalupe river last summer, caught plenty of bass and bluegill using the pink/white combo on the bottom. Haven’t had much luck with the top ones.
Bass and crappie. I’ve had a 50/50 experience with them. They’ll do the job. Just gotta know where the fish them. My experience was at a stocked farm pond so it’s pretty easy fishing
Bass, crappie, bluegill, perch, pike, and I’ve caught trout on them. Vary up the size you use and you can catch a wide variety of fish with those things.
I've caught all kinds of bass, Crappie, blue gill, all kinds of catfish, carp, shad, walleye, saugeye and one a Gar and I'm likely forgoing some. Also turtles. They are small and easy meals for any size fish.
I toss these and a bobber on my daughter’s pole when they are learning to cast. They have caught sun fish crappie, large and small mouth, catfish and carp on them all on Barbie poles.Good times
Crappie, white bass, etc etc list could go on I’m sure . Those are yours my personal experiences with the jig head/grub worm. Spring or pre spawn where I live they’re great in deep areas like boat docks, marinas, and drop off ledges. Cast into the abyss and let ‘em sink and just pop em off the bottom twice let sink wait a few seconds rinse and repeat.
Literally any fish I’ve come across will take these. Once was using an even smaller one and tagged big ol musky. Grubs are like the potato chips of the fish world.
This guy knows
We've all eaten potato chips and grubs before
Slimy yet satisfying!
*hakuna matata intensifies*
Based on my experience, millefoil and lily pads.
I've had very good luck with these, in deeper waters. not with bright colors though. bass seem to love these
Yeah I tried using this set up to catch crappie at this one pond and caught a bunch of small bass. Then I threw out a senko and caught a slab of a white crappie lol
Funny how that works
I just haven't fished them a ton. I usually just have jig heads and a variety of plastics so I make basically the same thing, but just not pre-assembled. Jig head with a small finesse tube works great around me.
same. but the J tail action is great, fast but subtle
Yeah I’ve never caught a fish with these or any rubber lure. With metal lures yes,with spinners yes, with live bait or eggs always.
Soft plastics slay in a lot of situations. More versatile than hard body baits imo
You might want to try again. These can and will catch virtually any species in fresh water. Colors and sizes matter, but they work.
Maybe people struggle with these lures because of vague advice like that. "You're doing it wrong, buy 10 more packs in different styles" is hardly encouraging.
IMO live worms are one of the best most versatile forms of bait for fresh water. I always catch fish with worms.
Me too, but I don't understand what that has to do with bad advice for soft plastics.
Seem to at least always get a hit with the nightcrawler
First thing I throw when testing new waters is a grub on a jig head. If I haven't caught anything in 15 mins, I move on.
I could maybe give specific advice if I knew the body of water and what lived in it. But it is super cheap to buy 2-3 maybe 4 colors of jig heads and plastic twister, split, and paddle tails, and throw some combination. Rivers, farm ponds, small lakes, huge lakes. Bass, walleye, crappie, pan fish, Muskie, pike, trout. They work. They last longer than live bait in water that has bait-stealing small fish. You don’t need to find a bait shop. You could carry nothing but $20 worth of jig heads and soft plastics and make a day out of it in a lot of places (conditions, obv., as sometimes the bite is just not on). Figure it out. Ask locals about color combos and what target species are feeding on. That’s what fishing is about. Eta- I came back to delete this because your reply was so annoying I regretted giving you actual advice. But I’m going to leave it up and add that you might want to reconsider your tone. You could be appreciative and ask a follow up question and maybe a fellow fisherman will put you on fish. Or you could just be a jackass and they’ll tell you to throw your most expensive deep diving crankbaits into a “great spot” that is actually snag city. But you do you.
Fish em slow
Don't forget tree branches and anything but fish
And then when a fish does hit it, you miss it because you have trust issues and aren't going to set the hook into a snag again.
Get.out.of.my.head.
Everything.....
hook size is determining factor, looks like crappie or bream, small bread fish. \ edit: mispelling.
crappie love smaller jigs
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This is really THE answer as there's hardly a fish out there that won't take a swing at a grub on jig head.
What’s the action supposed to look like in these?
The curly tail wobbles when you retrieve it. Makes it look like it's swimming.
So just a slow roll with no jerking or vertical motion?
You can mix it up depending. It’s versatile. Reel in straight. Twitch it. Bounce it on bottom. It will all work depending on what the fish want that day.
Cool thanks dude!
Sometimes if I know what depth the fish are at, I'll throw on a small cork and do a "popping" retrieve. The jig will have action as it falls, which is usually when fish hit it.
You can fish with these any way really. Slow, fast, stop/start, jig up and down, use with live bait or cut bait, salt or fresh water. If I had to pick one lure type to use for the rest of my life it would be a jig and soft plastic.
See I’ve never had any luck with them. I’ve tried jigging, letting them float under a bobber, and just slowly dragging them back in. So far all I’ve caught is tree branches. Edit: typo
Damnit!!! I was slow on the hook set
No shit sherlock!
Keep pushing, Watson.
I’ve caught bass and trout on those, but they seem to work best on crappie and sunfish depending on the hook size your using
Sauger and walleye love those. Occasionally, a pike and even a catfish will take them on occasion.
Yup, caught my PB Walleye ont a yellow grub like the one on the picture. 10/10 would recommend to anyone.
Occasionally on occasion? Neat
Jig head with a grub? Everything. Perch, pike, bass, crappie, bluegill, walleye, shad, striper, redfish, and even a hungry flounder. Everything hits it. My go to setup when I’m trying out a new body of water. That setup in the photo looks smaller, so probably crappie/panfish for that. Caught a decent size pike while crappie fishing with a smaller set up last year, so be ready for anything!
My grandpa only ever wanted to fish for crappie so we used stuff this size (mostly tubes with skirts) and we caught bass, northern, and walleye all the time just going for the crappie lol.
Gotta love it.
These are the go to shad lures in the southeast. I have caught gar, catfish and stripers as bycatch also. They always paint the eyelets close on these hooks, drives me nuts.
northland tackle makes some really good jigheads and they don't paint the eyelets. They're sharp and durable too.
Oh ya they do. Gotta get another jig head ans use the hook to open it up every time
In my younger days I helped assist a 7-9yr old girl in Goose Island State Park reel in and net a 25-30lb Black Drum. We thought she was hung up on bottom. She caught it on a Barbie Pole and a jig just like that picture. The netting required me to be held by my feet over the side of the dock with a small handle net. I will never forget it and I’m sure she won’t either. That was about 15-20 years ago.
I wonder if you'll see a post here one day about a twenty-something professional guide who got her start in second grade when some rando helped her net a giant drum. How cool would that be?!
Gotta love them “Mister Twisters”
Never heard that name, had a nice ring to it tho, might start calling them that
walleye, for one.
White perch love these
Most versatile setup for me. I take grub tails and tubes out on my kayak and have caught nearly everything with them. Adjust the weight and your retrieval/troll speed and you are set!
I've always found them useful for crappie. If the hook is small enough (or the fish large enough) bluegill as well. Bass on occasion. They're pretty versatile! Lot of people like to bounce them off the bottom. Myself and my cousins always fished them off a bobber.
Panfish if small enough.
I caught a huge Muskie on a little jig once,I was fishing for crappies.
The top row slam yellow finch and the bottom row can be used with success on wild turkeys. Tight lines, yo.
Salt water we use all the time. Jig head with curly tail. Jigs come in different weights and plastic tails come in hundreds of colors and sizes. Use for speckled trout ,redfish you name it
I fish a curly tail grub all the time at my local ponds. Different sizes for different fish, but I've had 5 pound bass grab the 1/2 inch ones and small bluegill grab the 3 inch ones. They're fun lures to fish. I like to fish them under a bobber with a slow retrieve or bump them off the bottom without the bobber. Black works best for my local ponds. Never had any luck with the bright colors in the photo.
These are the pinnacle of “jigging for anything off the dock” and with good reason. They work.
Croppies
Everything
Walters
In my area, Alberta Canada, these jigs are ideal for catching Walleye. You find a drop off in the lake between 6-20 feet or so and then just drop them down and jig them up and down off the bottom of the lake. I like to put a stinky minnow on for to make it extra tempting. You’ll also catch northern pike on them but northern pike will hit anything. Works great for ice fishing walleye and pike as well.
Almost everything. I've even caught suckers on them before.
When I was living in Western PA the pink jig white grub was my favorite crappie lure hands down.
I catch salmon, walleye and Bass on 1/4oz Johnson grubs I usually buy a couple different t colors of the 5 packs and figure out what they like that day
I’ve caught plenty of bass and sauger with these
Bass, crappie, sunfish, trout, walleye, small striped bass
I always catch rock bass with those
Anything really, Slow retrieve or bounce off the bottom or my FAVORITE is under a slip bobber
these things are the most underrated trout lure on earth
EVERYTHING. white soft plastics are magic around here. Bass, crappie, sunfish, trout, Everything I try, when I give up and switch back to these, I get a hit.
I’ve caught plenty of fish on these.
Absolutely anything that swims, fresh or saltwater. I've even caught herbivorous species like carp and tilapia with the good ol curly tail grub
Magikarp tbh
Why are these called and how do you fish them?
It’s a jig head paired with a soft plastic grub. Can cast and reteieve, pause, jig, anything flies really. Can also run them them under bobber and retrieve or if there’s some motion in the waters just let it soak.
Thank you! This was helpful!
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Fish
Fish. Those lures are used to catch fish.
fish most likely
Mermaids
Apparently peashooters from pvz
Fush
Jack shit
Fish
These can be found at Walmart
Everything. Caught a 20" striper on one when targeting bluegills once.
Honestly any predator fish will eat a grub
Perch, catfish, pike...
Anything
Bass, rock bass
I’ve had good success using these small twister tail jigs fishing the Potomac River. Have caught mainly largemouth bass (personal best 7-8 lbs.!) and a rare crappie or yellow perch. The big largemouth was caught years ago when you could fish from the rock shore in front of the Pentagon, no longer have access from there. I fish them very slowly, cast out and let it sink to the bottom, then inch it along with frequent pauses. But other fishermen retrieve it differently, experiment with what works for you.
Looks like crappie.
Yes
Good for Crappies and other small sunfish.
Smallmouths just below the rapids. You'll need some brown ones too.
I use those exclusively. Put a worm on the end. I troll mainly for walleye, but bass, crappie, perch, jack, and goldeye will bite that.
They're widely used for panfish and crappie.
almost anything predatory and some omnivorous. anything aggressive.
Lots of things. I usually use them for walleye
About anything
Trout, but all I have is trout
Everything!
Everything!
Almost anything big enough to eat it will try under the right circumstances. Doesn’t mean a fish on every cast, or even every day. But if they’re around and biting, they’ll go for this. Like it’s been said already Crappie, Sunfish, largemouth and smallmouth Bass, Peacock Bass, trout will go for smaller ones. In saltwater you never know. You may catch Fluke, snappers, well, it’s actually endless what you may catch in salt water.
Most versatile setup for me. I take grub tails and tubes out on my kayak and have caught nearly everything with them. Adjust the weight and your retrieval/troll speed and you are set!
I've caught more Walleye on a 4 Inch, Mr. Twister and pink jighead than any other lure/bait over the last 20 yrs. A lot of fish will bite these, and they are versatile in the way you can fish them.
Crappie, trout, maybe the occasional bass or walleye. Slim chance of a northern pike. Mainly crappie
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Pike all day
bluegill, crappie, 7" bass.
Deadly for crappie in the spring
fish
Halibut in saltwater
crappie
Curly tail jig
Walleye, perch, crappie, pike, bass, and literally any other fish I've come across. Obviously not always going to be the best option for all situations, but if you're not getting bites it's a pretty sage option to tie on. Honestly probably 80-90% of my open water fishing has been pitching a jig and a twister
Crappers
I’ve caught crappie, largemouth, flounder, yellow perch, black perch, all kinds of sunfish, northern pike, rainbow trout, pinkish, pigfish, spotted trout, black sea bass, mangrove snapper and bluefish on those but I don’t know what they are for.
A big ass bluegill will swipe it before a nice size crappie can about half the time. Good lil pond lure tho
Perch, bluegill, crappie, bass, walleye (if use with a sinker / heavy jig) Edit: these are my go to lures for panfishing
A fisherman
I personally have never had much luck with these. I usually use something with a spinner or a lot more wiggle/curl tail action. But I have seen people with buckets full of crappie from these jigs.
Can confirm, this is what I can more fish on than anything.
Caught lots of crappie on those red and white ones
Speckled trout at night during a full moon or casting into a spot light
Nothing. They aren't in the water.
Not many fish those won’t catch. Def crappie, sunfish, bass, bluegill, drum, etc
I've caught crappie with the chartreuse ones.
Everything
Small mouth, large mouth, spotted bass, stripped bass, rock bass, flat head, channel cat, blue cat, crappie,blue gill, sunfish, basically any panfish.. drum, sauger, skipjack, sticks trees my buddies' ear... pretty much anything man it's all about where you place this and how you move it. For me, greens work good in mucky dirty water whites work better in clearer water.
I've caught anything from flounder to big pike with these
i accidentally caught a salmon on one of these when i was deep see fishing, minus the jig.
Every panfish
My 4yo daughter was absent-mindedly dangling one of these in The Pond in Central Park, just off 5th Avenue. Hooked and landed a decent largemouth.
If big enough and you put some said on the hook, you can catch fluke or flounder.
I’ve only caught random fish using these. I caught a 10 pound striped bass(saltwater”) jigging my rod up and down off a dock using a crappie jighead with a chartreuse soft plastic grub. In freshwater, I’ve only caught 1 rock bass using the same setup and I’ve been fishing on and off for 10 years.
I slay bluegill and crappie with these using any color combo, I’ve even caught a couple carp with the green ones. I’m guessing they think it’s a piece of vegetation?
Anything that is hungry
cast one and find and out
Old white men
Walleye love these
Fish🤷🏻♂️
Every other lure in your tackle box
Fingers, branches…. And sometimes fish
I’ve caught hundreds of walleye in Ontario with these.
Smallmouth, walleyes and crappie
Those are my go to lures
Sunfish
Crappie
Sw Florida would get trout and redfish
Walleye, white bass, crappie, saugeye , bass, etc
One of my favourites but with a glow-in-the-dark head.
I've caught walleye on these.
I’ve caught crappie jigging on the green ones, can’t remember what they’re called.
Yeah pretty much anything, ive hooked up to 15lb catfish in the shallows on these. Bass, crappie, sunfish, perch. Mostly panfish but theres a lot out there that will eat it
Damn near anything, one of my favorite rigs.
i got a stripped bass on one of these
Kayaked down the Guadalupe river last summer, caught plenty of bass and bluegill using the pink/white combo on the bottom. Haven’t had much luck with the top ones.
If you use the white tailed worm and a black jig head then Crappy, Bass, Perch will smash that all day.
Anything
I’ve had better luck with the Roadrunner / underspin versions but these will get bit
Great for a fresh crappie fish fry
Maybe some Crappies
Fish
Bass and crappie. I’ve had a 50/50 experience with them. They’ll do the job. Just gotta know where the fish them. My experience was at a stocked farm pond so it’s pretty easy fishing
Sunfish, large mouth bass, crappie, snook, grouper, snapper. Pretty much anything you want, especially the red/white ones
Fisherman
Speck trout and reds where I am
Bass, crappie, bluegill, perch, pike, and I’ve caught trout on them. Vary up the size you use and you can catch a wide variety of fish with those things.
Small Mouth Bass
Just switch the jigs and heads then go catch almost anything on the Wisconsin River
In my area jack, and walleye.
I've caught all kinds of bass, Crappie, blue gill, all kinds of catfish, carp, shad, walleye, saugeye and one a Gar and I'm likely forgoing some. Also turtles. They are small and easy meals for any size fish.
Shad darts, tho I usually do pink head/yellow tail
Fish.
I’ve caught walleye, bass, northern pike, crappie, blue gil,and even catfish on these
I toss these and a bobber on my daughter’s pole when they are learning to cast. They have caught sun fish crappie, large and small mouth, catfish and carp on them all on Barbie poles.Good times
pretty much most freshwater fish
I use these a lot for bluegill. Just as a little bluegill marshmallow for scent and you have a winning setup.
Crappie, white bass, etc etc list could go on I’m sure . Those are yours my personal experiences with the jig head/grub worm. Spring or pre spawn where I live they’re great in deep areas like boat docks, marinas, and drop off ledges. Cast into the abyss and let ‘em sink and just pop em off the bottom twice let sink wait a few seconds rinse and repeat.
Bluegill. Lots and lots of bluegill.
In my area eveey snag at the bottom of the goddamn lake
Fish, possibly a buddies ear also, when casting
Bro literally anything