Single Tail vs. Double tail jig trailers....

[N.A.R]

When would you use a single tail Yamamoto grub on the back of a football head jig vs a double tail trailer?

Thanks in advance.....

[Robert F]

When one leg gets ripped off your last double tail grub?

[Mitch]

It depends on what you are trying to simulate. Double for crawdads and single for bait fish. At least that's the way I do it.

[ash]

When I am pitching or flipping I tend to do so with the single tail grubs they tend to have more water displacment. When horizontally jigging I use more double tail grubs, when vertically jigging more single tail grubs.

When spots or smallies are insistant at biting off one pincher at a time I use the single tail grubs

[Oldschool]

Double tails slow the fall rate and more compact with faster movement. Single tails go through cover better and have a longer profile and slower movement. Both work well for baitfish or crawdads depending on the color combination and presentaion technique being used.
Fish both and let the bass choose which one they want.
Tom

[Cooch]

When would you use a single tail Yamamoto grub on the back of a football head jig vs a double tail trailer?

Thanks in advance.....

A single tailed grub is always my first choice of plastic trailer when fishing football head jigs. It just seems to me that when the bass are agressively feeding, they tend to strike that single tail with regularity. The Yamamoto single tail does have more action and pushes more water than the double tails. When bass are feeding on baitfish forage, this trailer imitates that forage better than a double tail. I definately prefer fishing the single tails when swimming or hopin that jig through vegitation.

On our lakes out here with smallies and spots, they tend to prefer the subtler, dual action of the double tails, especially in the late summer, fall & early winter. When I'm fishing that One-Ton rig, I'll always use a Yamamoto duble tailed Hula grub, I've not had much success at all with the single tailed Hulas. The double tails tend to be my first choice when fishing open, hard bottom waters that lack vegitation.

It's like Tom states, and most of us old school jig guys have just experienced so many different situations over the years, ya gotta be prepaired to fish both and let the fish tell ya which one they are gonna strike with more frequency.

[mac (Doyle McEwen)]

Cooch, can you explain how a single tailed grub could push more water than a double tailed grub..For the life of me, I don't see how that is possible if both are the same sized grubs and the tails are the same sized..

mac

[Oldschool]

Jigs shouldn't spiral with any type of trailer; wrong style head design or too light of weight for the size of trailer.
Yamamoto's Hula grubs have thin tails and swim easily, the single being wider than the doubles. There are some single tail grubs with extra wide tails that make a slower wag and push more water then a Hula grub.
Tom

[acm95301]

for me i commonly use single tail grubs dart heading 1/16th-1/8th oz darthead jigs.

Double tail grubs i use on football jigs, I like the berserkbaits 1/2-3/4oz with a yamamoto double tail grub, both in brown and purple fleck.

[Mike Thomas]

On the bottom 9 times out of 10 it's a D/T. Swimmin' a jig I always switch out for a single

[Cooch]

Cooch, can you explain how a single tailed grub could push more water than a double tailed grub..For the life of me, I don't see how that is possible if both are the same sized grubs and the tails are the same sized..

mac

Evidently Mac, you've never held a 5" Single tailed Yamamoto grub, up next to a 5" double tailed Yamamoto grub. Most single tailed grubs, as mentioned above by the others, indeed have a wider surface than double tails.

[mac (Doyle McEwen)]

Dang it Cooch, you didn't mention the tails were different sizes..I was thinking that if they were the same size, there just shouldn't be any way a single tail would push more water than a double tail..Even if the doubletailsd are not as wide, it would still depend on how much wider the single tail is than the combination of the two tails on the double..Wouldn't it..

mac

[Larry Hemphill]

Cooch is absolutely right about the single tail 5 or 6 inch grub. I have mentioned this on the forum before - every day or night big bass my clients and I have caught - when using the jig/Yamamoto grub combo - have been with a single tail. Granted, I don't use the double tail that much. There is a major exception to the previous statements however, and that is the 7 lb 7 oz spotted bass I caught at Collins Lake. It was 2:30 during a November afternoon - bright sun - and the water was crystal clear. In situations like that, I will often use a double tail to better resemble the pinchers of a crawdad.

[Cooch]

Cooch is absolutely right about the single tail 5 or 6 inch grub.

Of course I'm right, where do ya think I learnt this from? Thanks Lunker, hope all is well! HAR!