How To Catch/Find Hellgrammites: BEST Fishing Bait (Smallmouth Bass)
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If you are a serious smallmouth bass fisherman then you know that these alien looking creatures, hellgrammites, are one of the best baits for smallies. Hellgrammites also make great fishing bait for a number of other species found in creeks like bluegill, rock bass, sunfish & other bream!
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oh yeah hi so we're trying to catch some
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helga mites known as candy for
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smallmouth bass so what we're doing here
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is they generally go underneath rocks or
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some kind of suction to the bottom so
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the easiest way to catch with us to get
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one of these like in that's our handheld
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bats then you're gonna want some pretty
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good burn we're gonna put it behind the
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rocks and you're just gonna start
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shuffling the rocks up the curve should
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push them in that and then you can get
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hellgrammite crazy Finnish minnows you
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never know what you pull out
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pick the rock up let the ogre mites come
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sometimes they stick to the bottom so
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you should probably check the bottom you
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try to turn up just in case you stuck on
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I use a 10 foot sain, and rake above it, catch 2 dozen at a time! have caught millions of them.catfish like them,too!
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Oh nice! I'll need to try the siene method out next! Them madtoms are good bait too!
@tonyjones7673
2 жыл бұрын
That's the way we do it here in va .out of New river catch enough in one day to use for a couple week.and have a few to sale to our buddies
I built a screen for catching Dobsons (hellgrammites) and Tonies (MadToms, Stone cats) using 1/4 inch PVC board, 1/4 inch screen, 4 inch piece of rebar for legsand an old lawn mower handle for the front to lift it up out of the current when im working by myself. And it works really well and wish I could post pictures.
In the eastern panhandle of West Virginia many small mouth bass anglers like using square "umbrella" minnow dip nets. Prop it on it's side (or have someone hold it in place), down stream of the rocks you want to rake, and the minnow net is the perfect weave size to catch lots of hellgrammites in fewer harvests while filtering out muck, small stones and silt.
We used to take a screen door and a garden rake out into the middle of a river to catch these. We called them clippers, but I just found their correct name is Hellgrammites.
@StopFishingStartCatching
Жыл бұрын
Ahhh that's a cool way to do it! Thanks for watching!
Nice work!! Free bait is always a bonus!
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yea! Can't beat free bait...especially when it works!
Wow! Now I know. Thanks for sharing.👍
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Good luck out there buddy...hope ya catch some hawgs!
Sick video buddy 👍 now it's fishing Time
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks my man...you got that right! Tight lines!
I loved how at the end of video you can see the blood drawn on his finger tip as it released...oh shit balls
@StopFishingStartCatching
2 жыл бұрын
HAHAHA they will get you with those pincers! Thanks for watching we appreciate it and hope you have a good day!
Nice tips on catching crayfish 👍
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful...a lot of good live bait out there!
Good video!
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy!
Interesting fellas!! Sounds like they are fish candy!! Thanks for sharing!
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yea! The fish love them! Bass, Catfish, just about anything!
We use minnow seines and turn over rocks in swift water . Bass around here go nuts over them.We call them grampus here in Virginia. Great video 😎👍🎣
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Nice! This was actually filmed in Virginia! Thanks for watching and have a good one!
Fresh!!!
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks my man!
Nice vid bro
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy! Tight lines out there!
Nice now I know and I never knew that 👍👍👍😎 but I don’t think I will do that anytime soon but I will have to remember this when I go fish again and keep of the great work 👍👍😎😎😃😃
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Just be careful of the pincers! They hurt!
@ErictheGrayJedi
4 жыл бұрын
Stop Fishing Start Catching will do my dude that might happen but hopefully it won’t happen
Nice video Like from Brazil ;)
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy!
Mais um vídeo Top em não perco um
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
obrigado!
nice video my friend stay connected :)
nice.....
@StopFishingStartCatching
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks brotha!
What was you guys inspiration for starting the channel, and what are a few tips for getting more popular on youtube. BTW great video.
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy! Good question! We grew up fishing and watching fishing shows on TV but never really saw any that went into the fine details around techniques, finding fish, where to fish, baits, etc. And it's nice being able to send a link to family that lives out of state to show them what we are doing! Yea I think just making videos that really are focused on helping viewers...so providing useful/helpful information! That's been our main focus! Good luck my man!
@LandItFishing
4 жыл бұрын
@@StopFishingStartCatching Thanks for the tips!
Good tutorial. Do you fish them under a bobber or weighted on the bottom?
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Usually under a bobber off the bottom...they like to get themselves stuck on rocks and such if they can get to the bottom. You can also free line them and just time it to reel them in before they get a hold of the bottom!
Cool video! Those fangs look deadly!! Do they ever clamp down on your fingers?
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yea...we probably should have explained that in the video! Be careful, they hurt real bad if they get ya...worse than a crayfish!
They work everytime
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Ohhh yea...everything loves them! Good luck out there!
@ingod8971
4 жыл бұрын
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Man, those things give me the creeps. I wonder if they live up here in Ontario, I kinda wanna give it a shot for smallies sometime
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
They are awesome bait! And I think you should have them up there ontarioflyfishing.ca/2015/02/hellgrammites/ ! Good luck!
@fishmonkesus
4 жыл бұрын
@@StopFishingStartCatching thank you so much!! I'm definitely gonna give it a try, thanks for the link!
@dirtydave8320
4 жыл бұрын
Case plastic makes or made the best artificial ones!
Hellgramites and smallmouth bass, a better combo than butter and biscuits!
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha you got that right!
They don’t have these in Cali, do they?
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
I did some quick research...I think you can find them in California! I think they would be the larvae of the western dobson fly (as opposed to the eastern dobson fly).
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If you smear their back "legs" off against a rock with another rock, they can't HOLD onto rocks on the bottom. Less chance of getting hung up. They will climb back under a rock.
@StopFishingStartCatching
3 жыл бұрын
ahhhhhh very smart didn't think about that...thanks for the tip! Hope you have a good one!
Those are creepy looking little suckers..lol
@StopFishingStartCatching
4 жыл бұрын
hahaha you got that right! Alien looking
@Stubbsbitchinfishing
4 жыл бұрын
@@StopFishingStartCatching But it will catch a big one..hey grab a few!