Tubes

Super Fluke · 01-22-2007, 05:23 PM

I do not fish tubes that often. Thinking of trying it a little more this year. I saw a show this weekend on OLN the guest on the show owned a company called Mizmo. I was wonder what BRAND of tubes that everyone fishes with?

kc1 · 01-22-2007, 06:49 PM

I have no use for them myself. I did catch a few nice smallies on them once (10 yrs ago in MN) but that was my only memorable productive outing with them. I prefer a single-tail 5" grub in every instance I would want a similar-sized tube.

tnj8222 · 01-22-2007, 07:06 PM

grubs are very good, great for smallies and largemouth alike. i just picked up some magnum flipping tubes for spring

Hunt'nFish · 01-23-2007, 03:17 PM

SF, I fish Gitzets and Berkley Bubble-ups. The motor-oil greens and redish tubes are my favortie for river smallies. Typically carolina rigged weedless, but more and more I have been looping a peice of line through the eye of Gamy EWG and crimping on a peice of pencil lead. I rig this up weedless with the lead inside the tube. Work it just like a jig, only it's cheaper and more weedless....or rockless. I think anyway.
Hunt'nFish

Chad S. · 01-23-2007, 04:07 PM

I had success using tubes at lake whatcom when my father and I first started bass fishing, but rarely ever use them now. That lake is very clear, and I used a zoom tube "smoke with red flake", someguys swear by a pumpkinseed tube there. That was then, and this is now.......as there are better baits to catch em on there......It's funny though because we ordered 100 green pumpkin tubes from bps, years ago, and now all they do sit.

pitchnboy · 01-23-2007, 04:55 PM

I LOVE TUBES!!!! they are an awsome around docks and just about anywhere!!!! i skip dock with them and i kill em' i recommend them highly...3 1/2'' tubes with 3/0 hook and small internal weight!!!

pitch

shalom · 01-23-2007, 09:18 PM

One of my go to baits . I don't have a brand that i prefir . I like greens and pumpkin color the best , but have and use about 10 different colors .

bassin · 01-26-2007, 04:40 AM

They are this 1st thing I throw. I have more of the Jerry tubes than anything. Tex rig, dropped shot, it's all good

BuKuBass · 01-26-2007, 05:58 AM

I like Mizmo, Fat A$$, Creek Cabin. BPS's aren't the best quality but they fool 'em.

bucketmouth · 01-29-2007, 04:34 PM

I'm gonna try them more often this year. I was turned on to a color at the bassin jamboree that is supposed to be awesome. Bought a large bag of them made by outlaw baits. Will fish them as much as possible this time around.

Bought some jig heads too. also have the internal weight system. also have the bubble up tablets to insert into them. Kinda like Crackle from a couple years ago.

HOOKUP · 02-03-2007, 10:46 PM

I have caught hundreds of bass on tubes! Love them

BPS, zoom, outlaw...pretty much fish all the same.

green, pumpkin,and black copper flake KILLER

ExBassGuide · 02-04-2007, 07:32 AM

Do not focus on just one brand! I match the lure to the cover I am fishing.
Some tubes are thick and work great for skipping back in to thick brush and branches (I use braided line for this). For fishing piling rows and rocks I like a thinner wall on my tubes. Tube can be fished many ways and they catch big fish! I will never go fishing with some in my tackel box! Shalom nailed it on the colors! for small mouth try smoke with gold flakes! I use an internal weight (1/32 oz) and I some times use a ball head jig hook on the Columbia. Split shot wotks good and they work great as a top water lure when rigged weightless.
Tubes are in my top 5 list of baits I trust and use.
Roger

nitrobass · 02-05-2007, 11:14 AM

I've had good luck with ThomasLon tubes. I fish these on braid.

nsyhunter · 02-06-2007, 06:57 PM

Tubes are the my bait of choice first thing in the spring and the Wilamette is where I start. With a little extra weight you can really finesse these baits. When presented as food moving with the current the smallies can't resist. What I do find is early in the spring they tend to mouth them and not get too aggressive...so be ready to set the hook when you feel some weight. Defineately reccomend weedless with this presentation.

sbasser · 02-11-2007, 06:51 PM

I've used the 3.5" Zoom (or similar) tubes T-rigged a lot for pitching and skipping docks, reedbeds in Eastern WA, Lillypad fields in W.WA, etc. Not a bad splitshotting bait, either. Lots of tricks can be used with them, to make a 'different look' for the bass to see.

Tubes have caught many good sized bass for me, including my biggest LM (I don't fish for them that much anymore). Then, the Senko came along, and it pretty much replaces the tube for my purposes. Oddly enuf, very seldom have I caught SM on tubes. That's because of where I fish them, but it's my intention to change my ways and use them on jigheads, as they were intended. How you fish them will make a lot of difference, so while I sure wouldn't overlook them, they may not be the best choice for your situation and rigging preferences.

C&R, Steve

hook jaw · 02-14-2007, 03:39 PM

Last year I made a point to fish them more and did very well with them. My personal preference is Berkeley's Power version in a 3" size. I generally fish them for pressured fish (or to go back through an area after covering it with a crank), texas rigged (Gami EWG 1/0) on light spinning tackle with just enough weight to get down. For me this is usually between 1/8th and 3/16th oz depending on current. I don't worry about colors much, but stick with dark natural colors like green pumpkin or pumpkinseed and will choose based on predominant crawfish colors in that body of water.

HJ