Tubes for largemouth?

[plawren53202]

For whatever reason, I had never fished a tube. With my recent new branching out to creek smallmouths, I picked up some tubes to use for them. Used them for the first time on my last trip to the creek. Both green pumpkin and an orange pumpkin color (forget the name) SK Bitsy Tubes worked well. But I also caught a few largemouth on them. 

 

In fishing them, it seems like they can do a really good job of imitating both a crawdad and a bluegill. But for some reason I only hear about them mainly in association with smallmouths. I'm sure the answer is yes, but anyone using tubes for lake/pond largemouths?

[DitchPanda]

I have used the yum vibra king tubes with decent success. I fish them texas rigged just like a creature bait but the have a cool spiral fall to them. Some times I'll dip the tentacles in chartreuse JJs magic if I'm imitating gills or orange if I'm imitating craws.

[Jermination]

4 minutes ago, plawren53202 said:

For whatever reason, I had never fished a tube. With my recent new branching out to creek smallmouths, I picked up some tubes to use for them. Used them for the first time on my last trip to the creek. Both green pumpkin and an orange pumpkin color (forget the name) SK Bitsy Tubes worked well. But I also caught a few largemouth on them. 

 

In fishing them, it seems like they can do a really good job of imitating both a crawdad and a bluegill. But for some reason I only hear about them mainly in association with smallmouths. I'm sure the answer is yes, but anyone using tubes for lake/pond largemouths?

yes sir! 3/16 oz stupid rigged. throw the 3+inch zoom green pumpkin on bluffs. hold on because they will break your arm

[scaleface]

They work well on largemouth . One day I forgot my soft plastics and dug trough my gear and found a bag of black Fats Gizits . I Texas rigged them and had a good day catching largemouth deep on points and in shallow brush .

[EWREX]

tubes work fantastic for largemouth. my local club has an angler who exclusively fishes them, and is always in the running for a tournament win. he flips and skips docks with them, fishes them around cover, out deep, drags through grass, and every other situation possible lol

[evo2s197]

When I do use tubes I exclusively use 3.5 inch power tubes they are extremely productive.

[Teal]

Almost a forgotten lure here... I Texas rig them just to mix it up.  I like the larger tubes.  But I'll take a small tube and skip it under docks... not alot of guys down here throw them, so it's something different 

[Mobasser]

A good place for you to start on this subject might be to do a Google search on Missouri fisherman Guido Hibdon. He did very well fishing tubes for LM bass.

[BassNJake]

Tubes are a great all around bait.

Texas rig is great.

I love throwing one one the back of a carolina rig as well.

[Fishes in trees]

Denny Brauer won a Bass Master Classic pitching tubes.  As I recall Guido won his Bass Master Classic throwing his Guido Bug.

 

I believe that Strike King still sells that Denny Brauer pitching tube.  At various times, different companies marketed the Guido Bug.  I know that Gambler and Lucky Strike did for a while.  That was a good, well thought out crawfish bait & I wish it was still available.  I've been out of them for a while now.

[Black Hawk Basser]

I started out "bottom" fishing bass with tubes.  I read from KVD that there's no wrong way to fish 'em, so I figured that was a perfect bait for a beginner with no prior experience to start with.  I had a lot of success with them before I branched out to other baits.  My all-time best tube was a 4" BPS tube in a green & orange pattern called "Margarita".  It really looks like a bluegill or redear.  I still have a few of those that are patched with Mend-It, and I give them a go once in awhile.

4 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

I have used the yum vibra king tubes with decent success.

I have also used these.  I like the ringworm look to them.  Perhaps they impart a little bit of a different vibration signal underwater.

[walleyecrazy]

I do pretty good on them at my local lake when fishing for largemouth. I usually use the Stupid Tubes, naturally rigged stupid style and have my best luck using short 3-4” pops of my rod tip. This really does a good job of imitating a crayfish along the bottom and usually triggers a lot of strikes. 

[gim]

Been using tubes for both largies and smallmouth for years. I prefer the 2.5 inchers for brown bass and the bigger power tubes for largies. Gamagatsu makes a skip gap hook that is specifically designed to fish a tube Texas rigged - and it works well.  I also use tube jigs for brown bass and the hook is exposed. Favorite colors are green pumpkin, watermelon, and root beer. White works pretty good in dark/turbid waters. Z man makes a really tiny tube too that’s very durable and you can fish it like a TRD.

[Bankbeater]

I haven't used tubes in a couple of years now.  I use to use them all the time fishing around water willows, and caught some nice largemouth bass on the 3-1/2" size.

[WRB]

Just so you don't forget who invented and made tubes for bass fishing popular was Bobby Garrland's Gitzit. Bobby won several tournements on Colorado River lakes Mead, Mojave and Havasu catching LMB before Smallmouths were establish in those lakes back in the 70's & 80's.

In the 90's 7" to 10" Tora tubes were popular for big bass out west.

Tom

[Fishin' Fool]

Before senkos became all the rage i used to fish a 3.5 or 4" tube with a 1/16 ounce jighead and it fell in such a fashion that it would spiral fall. I think it was a good imitation of a wounded baitfish. I used to catch alot of bass this way.

[Fin S]

I've probably caught about as many LMB as SMB on tubes.

[Michigander]

Pitching a tube is a favorite tactic for me. I usually go for the bigger tubes and the Largemouth really like them. 

They are versatile baits as well. You can imitate a craw and a Bluegill all in the same retrieve.