Grubs

A short fat body with a curl or twin tail — the original swimming soft plastic and still the simplest jig 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

Grubs are the oldest soft plastics and the easiest to fish: the curl tail swims on any steady retrieve or fall. Single curl-tails on jigheads are a swimming bait for every species; twin-tail and hula grubs are bottom baits and football-jig trailers whose tails wave while the bait sits.