08-15-2003, 07:15 PM
[cool]Hey, FP40...any relation to WD40? (Sorry)
Man, if you have never fished tubes, you gotta get on board. The little ones catch every kind of fish there is. The large ones are probably one of the best things to have in your tackle supply for both LMB and SMB, as well as a lot of other species.
The big mack specialists fish a lot of the giant size tubes deep, on heavy heads...with or without a piece of fish meat on them. For most bass fishing you will have the best success throwing a fairly light head, to allow a natural sink (fall), and watch for the line to twitch, since a lot of hits come before the lure touches down on the bottom.
You can cast them from shore, let them sink and then swim or hop them up the sloping bank. Or, if you are in a boat or float tube, you can cast into shore and lift and drop them down into deeper water. Once you find the "zone", you can cast parallel to the bank and use a variety of retrieves to stay on the fish.
Tubes are kinda "do nothing" lures. They don't have action tails like twisters and swim baits, but the wiggling strands of tail have a big appeal to the fishies. They can be worked to imitate crawdads, small fish or whatever else you think the fish are feeding on.\
Colors...that's the subject for a lot of discussion. As a general rule, use the different colors with greens, browns and oranges...with maybe some blue highlights...when simulating crawdads. Use white, clear sparkle, smoke sparkle or confetti (rainbow sparkle) to represent small fish.
If you really want to learn about tubes, try to get someone experienced to take you shopping for the right tubes and heads...and then go with them on the water to get a feel for how to present them. Once you get the hang of it, you will be amazed at how well they fish. But, like everything, if you try to learn it all on your own, it will take longer and you can easily develop some bad habits...like typing.
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Man, if you have never fished tubes, you gotta get on board. The little ones catch every kind of fish there is. The large ones are probably one of the best things to have in your tackle supply for both LMB and SMB, as well as a lot of other species.
The big mack specialists fish a lot of the giant size tubes deep, on heavy heads...with or without a piece of fish meat on them. For most bass fishing you will have the best success throwing a fairly light head, to allow a natural sink (fall), and watch for the line to twitch, since a lot of hits come before the lure touches down on the bottom.
You can cast them from shore, let them sink and then swim or hop them up the sloping bank. Or, if you are in a boat or float tube, you can cast into shore and lift and drop them down into deeper water. Once you find the "zone", you can cast parallel to the bank and use a variety of retrieves to stay on the fish.
Tubes are kinda "do nothing" lures. They don't have action tails like twisters and swim baits, but the wiggling strands of tail have a big appeal to the fishies. They can be worked to imitate crawdads, small fish or whatever else you think the fish are feeding on.\
Colors...that's the subject for a lot of discussion. As a general rule, use the different colors with greens, browns and oranges...with maybe some blue highlights...when simulating crawdads. Use white, clear sparkle, smoke sparkle or confetti (rainbow sparkle) to represent small fish.
If you really want to learn about tubes, try to get someone experienced to take you shopping for the right tubes and heads...and then go with them on the water to get a feel for how to present them. Once you get the hang of it, you will be amazed at how well they fish. But, like everything, if you try to learn it all on your own, it will take longer and you can easily develop some bad habits...like typing.
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