Football season! (tubes)

[Montanaro]

Im headed to a highland smallmouth lake this weekend and bought some 3/4oz football heads for my brown tubes.  Fits nice and snug!

 

Does anyone else do this with this much weight?  Should be able to cover the entire water column while ripping it quickly.

[Turkey sandwich]

I don't fish tubes over maybe 1/2oz often, but it's worth a try.  Any reason for the football head versus either a tube jighead or ball head?  I typically just use football heads for dragging presentations and not fast, snapping presentations.  

[islandbass]

If the conditions dictated it, sure. Good luck! 

[Bluebasser86]

Most of our smallmouth tend to reside in less than 5' of water. 1/8oz is the heaviest head I use in a tube for those ones. 

[Montanaro]

Football head because 1.  There were no 3/4oz or 1/2 tube heads, 2.  It creates a sculpin/craw tail shape, 3.  Less likely to snag in between rocks.

[TOXIC]

Dragging tubes on St Clair is an art form.  Add wind, drift sock(s) or drift paddles and it's a specific art form.   That being said, the heaviest I throw is 3/8.  Why?  Because my rods/reels are set up for these weights and I prefer 1/4 99% of the time.  If I go heavier than 3/8 my setups are getting overpowered by the weight and I feel like I am dragging a trash can lid.  If it's windy and we are drifting I put a 5 inch Senko on a 1/4 oz football head jig (hook exposed) and it darts to the bottom.  Judy Wong is who started it so we call it the "Wong Rig".  

[Montanaro]

Those lighter weights simply don't work well when being ripped like a jerkbait.  They flutter and ascend too much which is good and all but not when you are trying to force feed smallmouth especially in deep water.