Rebel Hellgrammite

[phiber_optikx]

Anyone have experience lake fishing these? I've never used one but it looked neat so I grabbed one for my 4-11 stockton trip. Any advice would be appreciated.

[Huckfinn]

Yeah I have used the real Hellgrammite, Me and my fishin buddie when I was a kid went to Caplinger and used a down stream net and he took a rock rake and scratched the rocks in front of me up stream and I caught them in the net down stream and we had our bait for the day and I caught a 13 pd. Flat head that day. But your talkin about a fake one. No never have used one . What does it look like?

[phiber_optikx]

Like this but I got the black/brown.

http://www.lurenet.com/productdetail.aspx?id=5089

[Huckfinn]

good selection on the black and brown because that is what the real thing looks like. You must know your fishin bait Im tellin ya that we did really well with them Hellgrammite's that day I took a stringer full of differnt fish that day anything will hit them

[Huckfinn]

what do you plan on doing with that jig bobber,realing it in slow or let it sit on bottom ?

[phiber_optikx]

Never used it so I suppose I will just have to experiment and see what works best. I will let everyone know what I learn.

[Shad Attack]

Anyone have experience lake fishing these? I've never used one but it looked neat so I grabbed one for my 4-11 stockton trip. Any advice would be appreciated.

now i have never fished with one of these but i do know a lot about the actual organism. A helgrammite is an aquatic insect that is actually the juvenile stage of a dobson fly. in fact i was actually at a stream yesterday in Bolivar doing some stream team work with my biology professor and we caught three of them. one of them was about 4.5 inches long. right now would be the time to use these because they are all over the stream. let me know how you do with them and where did you get the rebel version. next time i go out stream teaming i'm definately going to bring a bait bucket so i can keep all of the helgrammites after we record 'em

[Shad Attack]

i also know that there are a number of companies that make soft plastic versions of this. most notably berkley gulp.

[phiber_optikx]

I got it at Southtown Sportinggoods in Joplin. I figured it looks real to me and hopefully I am smarter than a fish. Some days anyway....