Curl-tail grub

The original swimming soft plastic: a fat body with a sickle tail that swims on any retrieve — the jighead bait for every species and the classic spinnerbait trailer.

Soft plastics are the biggest family in bass fishing: 36 shapes, each designed for a rig, a depth and a mood.

• Shape = design purpose: fish, worm, craw, creature, tube, frog
• Finesse tier vs power tier: the same shape at 3.5 in and 7 in is two different techniques
• Tail type decides the action; body decides the fall
• Rig it the way it was designed to be rigged

1. What it is — A 2-5 in short body with a thin curled tail; the tail kicks at any speed and flutters on the fall.
2. Designed for — Swimming on a jighead for smallmouth, walleye and largemouth; 4-5 in on 1/4-3/8 oz heads along rock and weed edges; 2-3 in as a finesse and river bait; trailer on…
3. Trade-offs — Simple — outclassed by paddle tails for realism and by finesse baits for pressured fish, but it always catches something.