The Tube Fishing Trick Nobody Knows! How To Catch More Bass!!
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Don't forget about this awesome lure! The Tube is being forgotten, but you need to bring it back to the top of the list as we head into Summer! We have some key tricks that we use with tubes to take them from being a good bait, to a bait that catches everything in sight! If you're not already doing this, you're missing out!
So many anglers used to catch fish with a tube, or tube jig, but have stopped throwing it. Most never realized the bait's true potential before slowly forgetting about it. Today we're going to fix that! Tim starts with the basics of how to catch bass with tubes but it isn't long before he gives up the key that makes a tube a better bait than nearly every other finesse presentation, especially in clear water situations. From head sizes and shapes, to tube lengths and colors, this is everything you need to know!
Below you'll find links to all the baits, heads, and gear Tim discussed in the video. We've included our favorite sizes and colors where applicable as well. All the links go directly to Tackle Warehouse where you can see detailed photos and descriptions of each item.
FLIPPING TUBES...
•Big Bite Baits Tour Flipping Tube: bit.ly/3htKA6h
Color: Green Pumpkin Orange Tail, 1099
TOURNAMENT TUBES...
•Dry Creek Tube: bit.ly/2cJwI6r
Colors: Old Ugly, Crazy Eddie
•Gitzit 3.5" Fat: bit.ly/2MLZIZR
Color: Brown Craw Salt and Pepper
DOUBLE DIPPED TUBES...
•Big Bite Baits 3.5" Tour Tube: bit.ly/32e23VR
Colors: Green Pumpkin Blue, Green Pump Purp Cop
•Netbait STH 4" Finesse Tube: bit.ly/3aU0oeU
Colors: Dark Melon Purple, Green Pumpkin
•Xzone 3.75" X Tube: bit.ly/3oEN87D
Colors: Old Faithful, Green Pumpkin Blue
FINESSE TUBES...
•Xzone 2.75" Tube: bit.ly/3oEN87D
Colors: Goby Punch, Big G Goby
•Netbait STH 2.5" Tube: bit.ly/3aU0oeU
Colors: Ten Point, Juvenile Goby
REALISTIC TUBES...
•Great Lakes Finesse Juvy Craw: bit.ly/4aCo9UC
Colors: GP Purple Copper, Green Pump Purple, Motor Oil
•Savage Gear 3.5" 3D Goby Tube: bit.ly/33QGXzy
Colors: Green Pumpkin, Light Pumpkin Black Purple
HEAVY HEADS...
•Bite Me Big Goby Head: bit.ly/2CV3o7S
Size: 1/2 - 3/4 oz
•Xzone 60 Degree Goby Head: bit.ly/3hV3cPE
Size: 3/8 - 1/2 oz
GLIDING HEADS...
•Xzone 60 Degree Tube Head: bit.ly/3jCHmR8
Size: 1/4 oz
•Bite Me Flat Eye Tube Head: bit.ly/2diyVXK
Size: 3/16 - 1/4 oz
MICRO HEADS...
•Dirty Jigs Tackle Guppy Head: bit.ly/2nyUJRS
Size: 3/16 - 1/4 oz
•Great Lakes Finesse Mini Pro Tube Head: bit.ly/41C1W6g
Size: 1/8 - 1/4 oz
SCENT
•Pro Cure Super Gel: bit.ly/4bz7X82
Scent: Crawdad
•Bait Fuel Gel: bit.ly/3Le5h2j
BUZBE BAG...
•Buzbe Quik Qube: bit.ly/3TnKHl7
Size: Large Deep
TIM'S HEAVY TUBE COMBO...
Rod- Daiwa Steez AGS: bit.ly/3RhFit1
Model: 7'5" Medium Heavy Fast
Reel- Daiwa Steez A 100: bit.ly/3wUXrc1
Line- Sufix 131 Braid (40 lb): bit.ly/314VoyF
Leader- Seaguar Gold Label (12 lb): bit.ly/3UqrUbi
TIM'S BFS TUBE COMBO...
Rod- Shimano Expride B 7'2" ML: bit.ly/2nTq9FL
Reel- Shimano Aldebaran BFS (HG): bit.ly/3ryXKpR
Line- Daiwa Hidden FC (7 lb): bit.ly/3ILKXH0
FINESSE TUBE SPINNING COMBO...
Rod- St. Croix Legend Elite 7'6" Medium: bit.ly/2pjJWMA
Reel- Shimano Twin Power FE 2500: bit.ly/3df3hX5
Line- Power Pro Braid (10 lb): bit.ly/2aFg46b
Leader- Sunline Super FC 7 lb: bit.ly/2p7fxju
BUDGET FRIENDLY SPINNING COMBO...
Rod- Shimano Intenza 7'4" Medium Light: bit.ly/3O8zBye
Reel- Shimano Miravel 2500: bit.ly/3QZnwL5
Line- Sunline Super FC (7 lb): bit.ly/2p7fxju
TACTICALBASSIN LURE DESIGNS (AND APPAREL)
We have a variety of custom lure designs and apparel available! Everything from Swimbaits and crankbaits, to hats and hoodies! Its all available direct through Tackle Warehouse with fast shipping. See it here...
TacticalBassin Lure Designs: bit.ly/38YpPIz
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*MAJOR EQUIPMENT WE USE DAILY...
Boat- Skeeter FXR 21: bit.ly/43GvGQh
Motor- Yamaha VMAX SHO 250 HP: bit.ly/3xolFv0
Trolling Motor- Minn Kota Ultrex Quest: bit.ly/41RErpY
Electronics- Humminbird Apex 13: bit.ly/3pdaK1q
Anchors- Minn Kota Raptors: bit.ly/3iMUrEJ
*FAVORITE TOOLS AND GEAR…
Favorite sunglasses: bit.ly/3cLH0kl
Favorite Rod Cover: bit.ly/3UewJEx
Favorite Braid Cutters: bit.ly/35KSp3O
Favorite Storage Box: bit.ly/3U9y4cl
Favorite Net: bit.ly/3kdZ3kA
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The YUM Crawbug has, for two decades, been my favorite realistic crawfish tube. In fact, it is my #1 overall favorite crayfish plastic, bar none!
I'm a tuber and have been for many years. Try a purple or dark morning dawn color tube with copper or silver flake. Hard to find sometimes but local baitmakers can make them if need be. I fish mostly northern New England just for reference ... NH, ME primarily. Works on both smallies and largemouth.
Purple with a copper and or red flake is my favorite for PA smallies, I'm going to try some bone colored tubes this year as well. I usually don't fish ned rigs because I usually lean toward a tokyo rig.
@@richardluzaderjr4415 Yup, PA smallie guy here as well. Pittsburgh area. Worked at Megabass in the rocks.
@Cbill1987 nice!!! Some pretty good smallie fishin in this neck of the woods.
This is what I needed Mr. Little!
Up here , it is the 1 bait that I’m always trying to figure out how to outfish but 9 times out of 10 it seems like there’s just no beating it still use it everyday !!!! Awesome episode as always tim thanks man !
Ive caught bass before on a white tube on a drop shot
I’m a fanatic fir fishing a texas rig tube. Different sinker weights make a huge difference in them too.
Before the tube was the go to bottom finesse most were throwing small worms on Charlie Brewer slider heads, “mojo rigs” or split shot rigs. Baits come and go popularity wise.
Those Charlie Brewer sliders are still hard to beat. They are killer.
Hey Tim, I have a tube tied on year round. I use the standard jig head in 1/8oz. This gives it a more natural fall and the bass eat it up. Caught a 6 1/2 lber last month.
Have a mixed bag of tubes in my tackle bag that I totally forgot about. Definitely going get one tied on this weekend.
Has become one of my "must have" tied on baits when heading out for smallies. Its my #1 choice over a ned rig, as you can still "fish" a tube versus the dead sticking nature of a ned rig. The juvy craw is a KILLER....
This may sound strange, but I have been building sort of a "tube-spinnerbait" since the 80's and hammering the bass. Ball head jig, safety pin spinner standoff, colorado blade, Fat Gitzit tube with the back half of a twirl tail worm rigged inside the tube on the jig shank with just the twirl part extending past the tube tentacles to give extra action to the bait. The colorado blade gives the tentacles a shimmy action due to the thump of the blade, and the twirl tail adds its own twist.
I was catching bass on a vintage Hawaiian Wiggler from my Dad's old tackle box until I loaned it to a buddy, who promptly lost it on a snag. :-( I think the thump and shimmy from that lure was calling in the bass. Unable to find another wiggler, I went to a Beetle Spin, but it was only working for smaller bass.
I wanted to upgrade the size and add more action, so I started putting together my own creation using parts from my local independent tackle shop (yes we had those way back then). Deadly setup. I was fishing highly pressured waters too close to a metropolitan area, but I figured if I threw something at them that those educated bass had not seen it would work, and I was right.
Using a lighter jig, like a 1/8 or 3/16 oz, I can burn it back and it will hump up just under the surface kind of like a wakebait. Those strikes are explosive. With a heavier jig I run it slower and deeper for those bottom hugging fish. I find that the experimentation with home brew baits is half the fun.
Still no mention of the “stupid tube”?
Was just about to say this. Have one tied on year round. Have busted some big bags on a stupid tube.
Stupid tube is best way to catch a big one. They never see them down south.
Stupid tube?
Matt has said he wasn't a fan of weedless presentation for tube iirc.
Keep it that way lol don’t let the world find out
Thanks for the refresher course, I used to crush them on tubes and have gotten away from fishing them. I'll be picking them back up next time I get out on the water.
Tied on the GLF Juvy Craw yesterday…caught a bass on the first cast. Cool.
Awesome video Tim! I love the fact you mentioned the Gitzit as I recall when that first came out and I am dating myself now. HAHA Turning 51 this July and have built up a little smaller bag of soft plastic tubes, not as large as yours, but getting close from X Zone 2.75 and 3.75 tubes to Berkley Power Tubes, and Phoenix Tubes I have still sealed in zip lock bags from 30 plus years ago?! HAHA I am so looking forward to use them once bass season opens in my area of Ontario Canada which unfortunately is the third Saturday of June for our natural chain lakes and the 4th Saturday of June for our biggest land locked lake in Lake Simcoe! Smallmouth heaven here we come with some tubes baby! Thanks for a great video as always!
Tim and Matt. I don’t know if you’ve ever fished the vast amount of lakes in Maine but if you haven’t, you guys should definitely make a trip. Moosehead Lake and plenty others have great bass fishing.
The tube is my 2nd favorite lure next to a swim jig. Like Tim….i have and big tackle bag full of tubes. It is a forgotten bait and thankfully at the lake I fish, none of the other fishermen use them. 😄
The Trokar TK190 tube hook is the best tube flipping hook ever made in my opinion and you can use it for beaver style and gravity style baits it works perfect and the hookups are crazy good!
I’ve frogged a tube, just a bit of foam in the head, weightless Texas rigged, frogged across grass mats. Had a few blow up on it 🤘🏽♥️ have tried walking it in open water, but not much success walking it. 😅
Been on the greenpumkin /orange for about six years ,its the deal for me.
Great stuff Tim! My favorite bait is the tube. Got all the ones you listed! Caught a lot of largemouth, more smallmouth than I usually catch, still learning, how about that tube that floats? Lol I appreciate your teaching your techniques! Keep the faith brother! 🥸👍🙏
Hey Tim and Matt. You guys are the best. I love your videos. I have a question for you guys. I was wondering how you guys store all your soft plastics in your boats. I've tried different ways to store them. Right now I have them in large bass mafia bags. Any advice on how to store soft plastics would be greatly appreciated. Keep the awesome videos coming and be safe on the water.
2.75.inch green pumpkin coffee tube has been good this spring for smallmouth and largemouth for river fish 🐟 in Indiana
Great video, never really been a tube fan. Popular bait when I was growing up. Your video and info has made me tie a tube on and give it a try. Tight Lines 🎣
Tubes work great up here in Massachusetts 👍🏻
Great video thanks for the tips and I just learned something new I have to try that technique out
Love me a tube, you want to talk about glide! Try the core tackle Tush hook in a tube. Great head.
That finesse tush slays
Thanks!
Gonna try this at my favorite southern Mississippi interstate pond
Would love to see another video about fishing a tube
Those juvy craws are legit!
My favorite Carolina rig bait
Love a tube here in Michigan
Yes I love it when I here about my home town lake Oroville
Need your input on tubes in the grass. That exposed hook just becomes a 2 lb weedball in our local lakes up north.
Been texas rigging a Gitzit tube for over 30 years on Mead.
No Texas rig options?
Do you use a loop knot or a traditional knot when tying on a tube?
"Bite Me" heads down here have a 4/0 ewg hook for tube fishing, I just seem to find them getting hung up a bunch, thanks & let's go
How bout the tube with the hoover jig?
How do you choose tube or jig and craw?
Tim, I used to have great success with tubes in heavy cover with a 1/4 oz slip sinker and 3/0 EWG hook. Don't know what I'm doing wrong but I'm missing so many bites now I'm ready to give it up. Using St. Croix 7' med heavy Bass X rod and 20 lb Shooter floro. Do you have any tips to make tubing fun again? Thanks.
I use the screwlock type hook for tubes .Helps prevent tube from balling up during hookset
These videos are ("reel") helpful 😝. Good stuff guys.
What is your favorite pro cure flavor
Chris lane won a classic tube fishing, gotta love the tube! Thanks tim.
David Fritz was a big tube fan. I realize he was known for his cranking prowess but early in his career he spent a lot of his time fishing a tube
I'll take a tube over a ned anyday! Neds work but I fish the Wis.River and those bass want crayfish!
Can you use the tubes for bank fishing?
Absolutely. They are great in clear water situations
anybody here in the comment section familiar with nickajack lake ? its below chickamauga. im from GA and been chasing my first small mouth bite and for my week of vacation im currently in Tennessee and so far caught a few 4-5 lbs largies. still no smallmouth though…
Wow
No Texas rig with bobber stopper or super glue the bullet weight for lumber fishing, and then also the yum craw tube a 8th oz ball head with a #1 hook size so u can keep it weedless and that thing glides just like a real craw
U can't be 1 dementional with tubed
I've been fishin them when it was the Bobby garlin git zit
Is Matt still guiding?
I don't think so.
Canadian staple
Cue Bomb video when???
As a Canadian, the Tube never went anywhere lol
Growing up I used these all the time, unfortunately I didn't understand why. I grew up fishing in the great lake State where I still live today. I love 20 minutes from the lake Michigan shoreline and I think I will, with better understanding be trying some boob baits.
Dang autocorrect, tube bait's. I no longer need boob bait I'm 15 of my happiest years in with the same boobs I baited back then.
That's too much isn't it.
I have developed the best Tube hook ever.
All I can say is, why black and blue???
Why not?
It gets bit, especially by the bigs
No stupid tube?
What about the stupid tube though? 🤔🤔
Cost half the price of Ned rigs.
First🎉
Bite has died down past couple days, gonna toss a tube around to stand out from the crowd.
No Texas rig options?