I’m with @scaleface I reuse, recycle, or repurpose… then, I re-pour. Ive got a few molds, it is an absolutely hideous color, and no I’ve never caught anything with them….but its fun.

I keep my senkos and would use the remnants as trailers on my ballhead finesse jigs That's about it though. I only use grubs in saltwater. no particlular reason why.

17 hours ago, Jig Man said:

That spade tail grub was a heck of a winter smallmouth bait on Bull Shoals long before any of this other stuff came along.

My Dad retired to the Ozarks in 1970 so I fished those lakes and the Mann's Stingray grub (smoke) was a bass nabber in the winter!

I have fished the Z Man lineup since they come out, they catch fish, They are the cheapest to use because they last forever, as long as you don't hang up and have to break off. I also like that they stand up on the bottom., great for dead sticking. I am mainly use the TRD and the Finesse Worm in Junebug or Green Pumpkin.

Since we're on the subject of Grubs, after watching the Guntersville tournament I inventoried my stock of them, along with a few other baits for the rapidly arriving spring season on Bull Shoals. I don't know which bait brands and sources are allowed to be mentioned here, so I won't try. My source carries a huge selection of one brand of Grubs, but the number of "out of stocks" was greater than I imagined and I had to scratch for substitute colors. Another interesting note was they did have a lot of stock on the color that won on Guntersville, but that wasn't what I was looking for. I wonder if all the other suppliers are also dealing with sudden out of stocks on 3" Grubs.

3 hours ago, Tackleholic said:

Since we're on the subject of Grubs, after watching the Guntersville tournament I inventoried my stock of them, along with a few other baits for the rapidly arriving spring season on Bull Shoals. I don't know which bait brands and sources are allowed to be mentioned here, so I won't try. My source carries a huge selection of one brand of Grubs, but the number of "out of stocks" was greater than I imagined and I had to scratch for substitute colors. Another interesting note was they did have a lot of stock on the color that won on Guntersville, but that wasn't what I was looking for. I wonder if all the other suppliers are also dealing with sudden out of stocks on 3" Grubs.

Crazy how people will go nuts because he won with one and that color. All water and states and fish are different lol. I have. A couple packs I bought to try for trailers. So I’ll try it this year. But. Of because of hanks success lol

Back in the days before the Keitech showed up we used to swim a single tail grub on a 1/4 oz ball head a bunch.Also just pull it across the bottom in a technique we call scrubbin' in the Ozarks.

The easy shiner pretty much took over but as usual they don't stop biting it as much as we stop throwing it.

On 2/14/2026 at 2:34 PM, gim said:

The Zman tubez are pretty similar to a grub. They are very small in comparison to normal sized tubes and being made of elaztech, they tend to last forever.

They just don't work as well as other Zman baits for me? I have a lot better luck on a 2.5" regular tube. Tubes are sacrificed to the river rocks way before the material will wear out.

Allen

Mr. Twister 3 inch Ned Ringer. It's all about the tail. 😉