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    Has anyone ever tried branch grubs to catch crappie? I have heard of someone who has and said he filled up his bucket in no time. Sometimes he stretches the truth, but I wondered if anyone here has tried branch grubs. Also would you use a cork and wait for the fish to bite or wind it in?

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    Question Turkeyfoot .....

    you'll probably have to clarify exactly what a "branch grub" is :rolleyes: ... not familiar with that term, myself. Are we talking Catalpa worm, Cedar Bag Worm, Pine Beetle larvae ...... ?? If you don't know the "real" name of it -- where do you find them, and what do they look like ? .........cp

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    Not sure what a branch grub is. My brother in law and I tried some big fat white grubs that we found under a fallen log this weekend. Neither of us caught anything on them. He switched to worms and started knockening them dead. I switched to jigs and did pretty well too. Nothing was biting on those grubs, at least not yesterday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by turkeyfootnc
    Has anyone ever tried branch grubs to catch crappie? I have heard of someone who has and said he filled up his bucket in no time. Sometimes he stretches the truth, but I wondered if anyone here has tried branch grubs. Also would you use a cork and wait for the fish to bite or wind it in?
    Turkeyfoot -- A fisherman who sometimes stretches the truth?????
    Please say it isn't so!!!!!!
    Shoeless Jerry

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    Yeah I know every fisherman tells stories, but there are some people that tell stories about everything. A branch grub looks like a white grub some people find in their yards, but this one is green and we can usually find them in a stream in a pile of leaves. What we would do is try to find 3 people. Get a minnow seine and stand it up across the creek and have a man on both ends. Have another man take a garden hoe and walk up the creek about 50 yards and he will turn over rocks, rake through leaves on his way back to the seine. We used to do this a lot for catfish bait and we got untold amounts of branch grubs and hellgramites.

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    Saw those things once in the craw of the Mergansers and Black Ducks we killed in Kentucky .... dang nert caused to throw 'em out thinking they were bad .... nasty lil things at least from the half digested point of view !!
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    When we use "found" bait like stalk borers, cabbage loopers, and last year, 17-year cicadas, we catch just about everything except crappie. The lake we fish fo rcrappie most often has white crappie and they just don't usually go for "bugs" except for waxies. . - Roberta
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    I know what a branch grub is. I have never caught crappie on them. We always used them for catfish. Branch grub here in NC is a off white grub found in small slow running streams.. We woud set up a seine down stream and disturb the bank upstream and branch grubs would wash into the siene. Branch grubs and spring lizards were usually in the same type stream.



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