Tackle HD Mega-Mite Hellgramite

[Mark K]

Very cool soft plastic. Much larger than any real live helgie I've ever seen (and I fished with them a lot).  By the time a hellgramite gets anywhere near the 3" mark they are making their way out of the water.  By the third year they crawl up on a bank and burrow under rocks, form sort of a cuccoon and then transform into a Dobsonfly. 

The head/thorax portion is thicker than the abdomen and it is almost as if this bait were designed to use with a 1/8 oz keeper hook.  It's very durable.  I caught 8 smallies, foot long ones, with the same one and it's still good.  The bait with the keeper hook looks specatacular on the bottom.  I got the olive flavor and it blends with the bottom so perfect that the shine from hook sticks out like a sore thumb.  I think this might be a good one to whacky rig too.  I am not convinced that fish think it's a hellgramite but it looks very natural on the bottom.  However I caught everything with a fast twitchy retrieve so much for that

  https://www.tacklehd.com/products/hd-hellgrammite

If there is any disappointment, I saw this video and was expecting more action.  The ones I have are stiffer than this.

https://youtu.be/GhNEKZp5NM0

 

[Eric]

Cool! Thanks for the review and for sharing. I need to give these a try! Still have a small (new) pack of Case hellgrammites you or Rob P. gave me in 2002! 

[Mike G]

Thanks for the review. I wish Z-man would do a Helgi in their Elastec material. It woul d never stop moving.