I recently bought some double tail skirted grubs, also known as double tail hula grubs. They look really good. Any suggestions on how to fish them for largemouth or smallmouth bass? Any advice would he helpful. Thanks! 

Like a tube, but insert the jig into the skirted end, work slowly along the bottom, or hop if they like it.  Very good smallie lure.   Used to be much more popular, I think , but sort of went out of style.  Maybe the smallies have forgotten that it's bad news.  Good for both smb and lmb.  I like subtle shades of green, red flake if you can get it.

Like MickD said, they are not a popular as they used to be but not sure why.  I guess most just tie on a jig. My favorite version is the Cabin Creek Spider Parts where the skirt is separate. Plus it has one thicker tentacle that you use to make the jig weedless. I love mixing the grub/skirt colors!

I fish/rig a Hula Grub three ways. The primary rig is on an exposed hook football jig head.  Quarter ounce 3/0 wire hook gets 90 percent of my use. I will run a 3/8 ounce 3/0 with weed guard when wood comes into play.  I rarely rig them Texas style but have around vegetation.  The primary retrieve is dragging. Then I may lift and drag. Regardless, I want to mimic crayfish.  I fish mine on a medium action spinning rod. 

Oh man, I remember lacing a twin tail or hula grub on a (name you favorite) jig head and having a great day with the small jaws. Didn't even need a skirt on the jig, although, it wouldn't hurt to have one one. 

 

Football jig as @Columbia Craw mentions above in a rocky environment was gangster! ?

In past the Hula Grup was called a spider jig.

Yamamoto makes a Hula Grub jig for this trailer.

Any plain unskilled jig works. I prefer Yamamoto Football jig with wire weed guard. 3/8 oz with 4” and 1/2 oz with 5”.   

Tom

 

I like to fish them on a screwlock shakyhead, or on a T-rig with a 1/4oz bullet weight. brown/purple flake and pumpkin/black flake have been my best colors. 

I used them mainly for river smallmouths fished Texas rigged . Its a killer .Caught lots of chunks on those things . 

That is one bait that doesn’t work much for me.  I have a double tail grub mold and several hundred Yamamoto skirts but even when I am catching on a Ned and substitute them it’s a no go.  I hope that swimming them will work once I get Mega Live installed.

I love me some hula grubs. Usually fish them on a chompers stand up jig head. Favorite color is green pumpkin with green/purple flake

Gary Yamamoto, the developer of these recommends fishing them on a football jighead along the bottom.  He uses a 5/8 oz football which seems kind of heavy so I drop the weight a little.  I mostly use them on a 1/4 oz ball jig alternating between a pop 'n drop technique or a swimming retrieve.

Little plastic scraps on a jigs i tie up.

 

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Edit - i would throw on a black double tail  anyday of the year 

 

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On 12/23/2021 at 5:25 PM, Big Swimbait said:

Like MickD said, they are not a popular as they used to be but not sure why.  I guess most just tie on a jig. My favorite version is the Cabin Creek Spider Parts where the skirt is separate. Plus it has one thicker tentacle that you use to make the jig weedless. I love mixing the grub/skirt colors!

Mine too!!!

Yamamoto offered double Spider Skirts for years and only recently stopped selling them.

If research spider jigs you find several post I have made suggesting new jig anglers to use Hula Grubs and plain painted Football jigs. The reason is simple they work and the jig with Hula grub isn’t expensive.

When I say they work they catch all spices of bass and all sizes.The last giant bass caught in California was 19+lbs on a Yamamoto hula grub and jig. 

Tom

They catch fish for sure, but I don't see any added value from it to a finesse jig with a finesse trailer, and you'll go through a bunch compared to the jig.

I like 'em in cold water especially. Dunno about the Yama's but the skirts I use are made with floating plasic and have great secondary action. Those tentacles wave with the slightest motion and continue to for awhile after the bait stops. You can attach the skirts to any bait you like with a hot knife.