HOW I FISH the Nikko Hellgrammite

I am so glad you started this channel. You explain things in a way everyone can understand. Keep it up!!

Caught plenty of smaller bass with those hellgrammites. Glad you introduced them to many people. Never heard of them until you produced your first video showing them off.

Everything you presented is spot on. I had a smaller hellgramite lure from BassPro I had bought for trout fishing years ago. I broke it out recently and was getting lots of fish, bass, perch, panfish - but managed to shred every bit of plastic. They didn't hold up. I came across this video and decided to give the Nikko version a try. Wow - these things really hold up! I love this rig you demonstrate. I caught lots of smallmouth, never got snagged and my lure is as fresh as it was when I tied it on. I found that the fish did not hit it hard and I had to really pay attention. Gut hooking is never fun for catch and release! I fished it with mono and I will be switching to braid for next time. I ended up dragging the lure at a steady retrieve so they wouldn't have time to swallow the lure.

Excellent. We need more tutorials from Big John. Creek fishing has become a passion 😂

I never could find the right hook for that bait and you found it! Thanks for your info! Great info! Thanks Brother!

Thanks for this, man. Just used the Bullet z and mud bug helli to crush bass for ten days in MI. Wouldn’t have had that rig without your insight, a lot of people are fishing it other ways but that worked awesome and was so weedless. Thanks thanks thanks 🙏🏻

Great stuff! I’ve had some success using a weedless ned hook, but I never would’ve thought of this hook and sideways. They are great hooks.

I never heard of a hellgrammite until watching you and I LOVE them! So do smallies in creeks and rivers lol You have taught me so much! Thank you, John.

Glad to see you’re uploading these types of videos, thanks for the tips on these hellgrammites

I love the hellgamites, I bought the Nikko hellgamites, very nice and long lasting materials. Caught many bass on one of them, they last a long time. I'm new to fishing, and from watching your video's, I invested in the hellgamites. Thank you for the informative video's. Looking forward to more of them.

Hellgramites main habitat is a rocky stream bottom in a moving stream ,creek, or river. Here in Pennsylvania, my Grandfather and Dad used to catch and collect Hellgramites to fish both for Trout, and Smallmouth out of a local Limestone trout stream. Hellgramites have a 3-5 year life cycle. If you flyfish the wooly worm, and wool bugger imitate these nymphs. I really enjoyed this video and a new style of rigging. I am currently teaching a nephew and his son to fish conventionally. I started them worm and bobber on local ponds and lakes, they terrorized the bully sunfish and bluegills, next I took them to the Delaware River and had them wade and fish the channel for Smallmouth bass and possible striped bass....using shiners drifted. ..no dice switched to a Keitech 1/10 oz jig head and a 3" Keitech swimbait.....Smallmouth, Smallmouth, Smallmouth. I used a 1/4 round jig #2 hook and Mister Twister tail baits in Chartreuse Yellow, Green ,Pumpkinseed, and Motoroil when I was a conventional angler and had great success. I'm going to pick up some Nikko Hellgramites and some of these hooks and try this. I've been a Fly only guy since 1991 but teaching these two new anglers has brought back so many memories and I am enjoying seeing two new anglers flourish. I started them both off with matching rigs,,,, St Croix 6' single piece medium fast action Triumph rods, Shimano Sienna 1000 spinning reels, loaded with 6 lb Berkeley Trilene in a olive color. I think I will pick up two Shimano 2500 Sienna reels and get some 10lb braid and put some Maxima 4 or 6 lb as a leader . Was wondering do you keep your softbaits in a small plano box or in the original zip bags? What brand hook is that i know you said 1/0 for size

Tried this last night and it really works. I was using a yum hellgrammite rigged on a size 4 ewg hook and a 1/16 ounce cone sinker. Casting upstream at a 45 degree angle and just letting it drift. I just moved to mountains in ne tennessee and this is the best day I've had since I moved here.

Great advice on the sideways position of the bulletz hook. I fished all day with only a few hangups and very few missed fish.

I tried this set up and was playing in a stream behind my house where a few smallmouth hang out at a tressel bridge. Had a few bass look it down but no hard hit then a decent rainbow trout came over and grabbed it. Just like you said😊

Exactly the answers I was seeking. Thanks John.

Love your content, missed your Scripture at end though. Thanks and God Bless You 😊

Hey John, thanks for sharing how you rig the bullet jig head hook through the side instead of the belly. I was skeptical but gave it a try, and man what a difference it has made! I was having a similar issue where about half the fish i hooked were coming off using the Ned rig hook. Problem solved .... thanks again and all the best.

Love these videos as much as the other channel. This helped me quite a bit, I wasn't fishing the hellgrammite correctly.

I’ve been wanting to try these, but didn’t have a clue how to fish em. Now I do. Thank you!! I’m gonna order some and give em a whirl. Thanks again.

You just changed my mind on the hooks I was going to use this year. My order is sitting in amazon.