Started fishing tubes this past summer , may have been your video that made me remember I had a bunch of bags of tubes I picked up at a flea market a few years earlier , they worked really well in the curly leaf pond weed in my local lake , also got a few good ones with a tube on a tokyo rig and on a free rig , thanks for the great advice . Oh and PS, if anyone has an Ollies around them they sometimes have this gel attractant with scales specifically made for tubes , not sure if its helped but sure didn't hurt
Fishing a local club tournament monthly for years taught me good practice in choosing baits. I also learned handling a boat is rough weather. First bait was a purple ribbed single curled tail silver fleck dipped in chartreuse paint on a Texas rigged hook, or a Carolina rig. And a watermelon red fleck tube you described on a Texas rigged EWG hook with the tail lightly dipped in Chartreuse paint. We did good on our tournaments and in bigger tournaments we enters. A tube is still y go to bait most of the year.
Never had confidence in a tube . Own a poopton but almost never throw them ( just have more confidence in other baits ) Great informative video as always
Love your videos. I’ve been fishing tubes for years here in the middle of the country...smallmouth, largemouth and walleye all love it. I like to put 1/2 of an alka seltzer inside the tube occasionally and those fizzy bubbles bring in some beautiful bites.
Great info. The site you mentioned for ordering them do not list the Flip-N-Tube originally by Denny Bauer. The site shows Coffee Tubes, which were not thick solid heads 4 yrs back when I ordered them. By the way, you had lots of folks order the coffee tubes. As the site is out off stock now. Only the Flip-N-Tube name is the thick headed ones, that I know of with hollow bodies, from 2 decades ago. Also tubes leaves that air bubble trail, excellent for the shallow parts of reservoirs in, Indian river county fl, man made impoundments. Plus excellent hollow cavity for applying attractant.
I need to get into flipping a tube, I use tubes all the time for smallies rigged with a jighead.. great information on the tube that will for sure help out thanks!
I learned how to bass fish almost 20 years ago in Ohio with a Texas rigged green pumpkin tube. I dont see ppl use them much anymore including myself. I need to bring them back this year. Great video
From cincinnati. Glad i stumbled upon your channel cus if you can fish in this area you can fish anywhere. Bill is one of the best out there. Thank you sir.
Ty I would really not want to fish you for money, seriously I'm not to worried about fishing most for some pocket cash but, I don't think you would get any action outta me, truly one of the best you tube anglers out there, I know a lot of pros that know their stuff but not like you do, if your ever in south Texas hit me up, I go everyday, I'd fish with ya.
I know you mentioned swimming a tube but What are your thoughts about swimming a tub on the back of a chatter bait/ bladed jig? With or w/o a skirt? I love the videos! Keep it up.
Try it, it works!! I did that for the past 2 yrs and have had good results. You have to remember everyone and their brother throws the Chatterbait with a creature bait or swim bait trailer. It’s good to let the fish see something their not used to. I throw mine w/o a skirt.
Great suggestions man. Bill is one of my favorite guys too. Thanks. I will be giving it a shot here in Michigan……when the freaking ice melts. I have a lot of tubes so I’m going play with them
I use to fish tubes almost exclusively when I was young.. then I discovered senkos and they basically replaced my tube fishing.. getting back to my love for tubes now though! Was sad to see my favorite, Chompers, are no longer made going to have to give these strike kings a try
You make a strong case for fishing cover and using lighter weights. I will assume that you use a Texas rig to make it weedless. Which method(s) do you recommend?
im gonna say mist guys are usin , ned rigs , wacky worm, or cramkvait, jackhammers these days. u prob be 10 % throwin tubes or the original zoom fluke ir the Sluggo! and those all work but the wacky and ned are just hard to pass on.
I'm in my sixties I fish tubes forever quick little just a little thing if you take a piece of Alka-Seltzer just a small piece and put it up in the tube kick it out there it'll set but it'll bubble and Alka-Seltzer has a lot of salt it's amazing I've caught a ton of bass doing it that way just a quick little hint
I flip a stupid tube and I love it because you don't have the weight sitting on top of the tube and it's just something that's a little different than most people throw
You mentioned Ohio several times an d I am wondering if you live in Ohio and where. I am in the Cleveland area. I also love fishing with tube baits but never considered the rig you were using. I will have to try it. Thanks for this video.
I think another common mistake people make is not Texas rigging them.They assume you have to put a jig head in them with hook exposed out the side which makes them a pain to fish in cover so they only use them in open water situations with less things to hang up on.
Agree, its been kinda forgotten about. The industry has a way of shining a light on headliners..... and sometimes quality stuff is left behind. Thanks for the vid and talking about a tube.
I wish I could say a bear attacked me or something cool but I dove into a pool and didn’t realize how shallow it was. Struck the bottom eyebrow first :/
Enjoy your videos. You should break away from every other RU-vidr and stop titling everything about the mistakes we are making. Just provide the information in a positive manner. Just a suggestion...thanks.
I know what you are saying! I definitely try to be positive in all my videos. I don’t like negativity. I would like to get away from titling something as a mistake, but unfortunately the analytics speak for themselves. People tend to watch ‘mistake’ videos more than ‘tip’ videos. Hopefully I can get the channel to a place where it doesn’t matter but still working on growing my audience. Thank you for watching
