YES!!
One of the best soft plastics ever molded

No sir He died a few years ago. I know its been a long time ago but i used to talk to you a lot at Rainswood. back when you had the closed in boat trailer. Dang thats been a while

Man I used those as well-night fishing- good bait for quality bite . Also bed fishing when the big momma wanted a bigger profile bait.
Good bait still today I’m sure. Mass of bait moves water without too many wavy appendages, kinda chunky not too much action presence.

Ah too bad. He was a nice man. I sold my enclosed trailer to Bill Kells from Rainswood. And yes it has been a while. 30 years to be more precise.

Blk/blue was great but my fav here on the left is watermelon with chartreuse pinchers! I must have kept Smittys light bill paid half the year buying these! You're right about the size Ken. The left one is original, the two on the far right are the new ones they called the "gold series". Old one is a LOT bigger.

I remember taking a bunch to fork on a senior trip in 97. I wanna say they were watermelon green/orange flake? Or something very similar. Living in Jasper we were lucky to have Ann's tackle shop. She had a big worm bar of them in bulk. She said take these and go flip stumps in 6-10ft all day with grass. That's all we did and caught the heck out of fish for 3 days.

One of my best Lake Fork night fishing fishing baits back in the day. They're thick so hook ups can be an issue. I figured out a way to get 100% on hook ups. I'd thread a twin tail trailer over the hook and up the line. Then I'd shove 2 glass rattles into the body of the Hawg Craw through each eye. Then rig the craw so that the bend of the hook is exposed thru the back of the craw. Slide the trailer worm down and imbed the exposed hook point into it. Then the worm weight which was pegged. I never used more than a 1/8 ounce weight. The bait had plenty of weigh built into it already with all the bulk.

Anyone else ever fish them like this? Bulky bait that moved a ton of water.

I still have a bunch of those that are black with blue claws and junebug with blue claws.

we used the shorter version during a lot of tournaments in the nineties- and won a lot of money with it. 3 sixteenth oz, texas rig and go to town any time of the year- favorite color was motor oil

I have won money on Rayburn with these before and I still have them in my arsenal.😁

As many have mentioned especially on Fork in the 90's me and my partner never night fished without having a Black/Neon Hawg Craw tied on. Between that and a Berkely 10" Red Shad Power Worm that were our soft plastics.
Also one of my very few double digit fish actually came on a small Larews Black/Blue Craw night fishing on Bob Sandlin during that time. There are so many designs of Craws now days with so much action but I really feel like the large profile and subtle action of the Hawg Craws were why they have been such a good bait for so long.

Go find the BassMaster Magazine article about Lance Vick's night trip on Fork using the Hawg Crawl. He caught 2 DD's in one night on the bait.

Thanks Randy! Ever since I hit my Late-40's my memory has started slipping.

Some of the smaller ones I picked up the other day. Can't find the larger ones.

Wait till you hit 60. LOL