Tube Bait?

[FishTank]

Each year I try to work on a technique I don't use often or is new to me and this year it will be fishing a tube.

You guys got a favorite brand, color and way to rig it?  I usually use Berkley or Zoom and a 1/4 oz tube hook.  

Thanks for any info.

[Tin]

Usually I go with Zoom, Yum, or Venom. I like 1/8 oz. venom heads too. But I recently bought Mark Zona's tube heads with rattles at BPS and I'am real impressed with them. Like Zoom Natural Shell or Alabama Craw, along with the usuall Watermelon copper and green pumpkin.

[eyedabassman]

Try the Baby Paca Craws, I like green pumkin,watermelon seed, Bama bug, just to name a few. I love to T-rig them or the Tiny Paca Craws are great jig trailers,or just swim them on a split shot rig.

[Bassnajr]

Hey...

I use Zoom and Strike king tubes green fleck, green and red and blue and silver. Last summer I used standard round jig heads for bottom/edge of weed lines etc. I also used tubes with a large weed less look, and fished them with no weight right under the surface, in gaps in the weeds and pads (let 'em sink, and pop 'em back up), and right across the pads, almost like a frog. My buddy was surprised at how well the later presentation worked. I did pretty well!!!

This year, I'll work on jigs, their new to me.

Alan

[Gone_Phishin]

Last season I did really well with Yum Vibra King tubes. There were several times, while casting docks, the tube would pull a fish when a senko, crank, spinnerbait, and worm wouldn't.

I usually T-rig them with a small tungsten sinker. Green Pumpkin, Tequila Sunrise, and Junebug were my best producers.

My go-to tube rig is a St. Croix EC68MXF, Daiwa Sol, and 8lb Yo-Zuri soft.

[cbfishalot]

I use a 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 tube with a exposed hook about 80% of the time. It all debends on the cover I'm fishing. For a exposed hook I use a tube head in 1/16, 1/8, and 3/16oz most of the time. I use either a 2/0 or 3/0 ultra point hook. I have a guy that will poor any type of head and hook combo you want and I also use his brand tubes. I fish these tubes on spinning rods, St. Croix ES68MXF or a ES70MF. If I'm fishing light cover I will use a stupid head rig with the lead head weight inside the tube with the hook coming out the side and then tex-posed back into the tube. I like to use a softer thinner walled tube when fishing this tech. I will use the same rods as above. I try to keep the weight inside the tube as much as possable as well as having a exposed hook for better hook-up ratio. If I'm fishing heavy cover I will us a 3 1/2 inch and on up size tube. I will rig the tube with a 4/0 or 5/0 g-lock or a owner wide gap plus hook. I use a tru tungsten weight because it is smaller and makes the bait look more natrual then lead. I will pitch tubes into heavy cover on casting gear using a St. Croix TB70MHF.

[flippin]

i use reaction innovation boomboomtubes in dirty sanchez and roadkill

[Jeff P.]

My favorite tubes are the Yum Vibra King tubes.  I really like the texture they have and they have worked very well for me pitching around docks.  I don't do much flipping in heavy cover, so I almost always use a 1/8 or 3/16 oz tube jig inserted inside the tube.  

I'll also t-rig them and use it in place of a worm to change things up.  This year I'm going to try them on a c-rig, and I plan on using some foam earplugs to help them float.

[WCCT]

My favorite tubes are made by Dry Creek Outfitters.  They are a small company located in Idaho.  They have some awesome colors that are dynamite on the Columbia and Snake rivers.  I like to rig them on rattling tube heads.  

[jfowler]

My favorite tube is tube x by vertical lures, the best colors for me are june bug, watermelon seed and black w/ blue flake.  I rig them texas style with a 3/0 ewg gamakatsu hook.

james