Tube Help

[Bassinman74]

I have been fishing a tube the last couple weeks on Bull and have hammered em....But my problem is the jig head keeps getting hung up. Is there a way to make a tube weedless...or at least a little more weedless?

[Ham]

It is interesting to me how diffeent folks really get locked into diffeent patterns. I'm seemingly addicted to throwing skirted jigs for my early winter bass. I did not seriously consider throwing a tube at them.

Did you happen to note water temps when you were catching those fish on the tube?

Some guys like to texas rig their tubes. I don't, but some do. I use an internal jighead with a single wire "weed guard" that I feel like helps protect the hookpoint as the tube bashes around in the rocks.

You could thread the tube onto a football jighead.

[Dutch]

Here is one way.

[Mike Worley]

I seem to get hung up a lot less when I rig tube baits on a external jig head (rig it just like a plastic grub) it seems to drag accross the bottom without wedging beteewn the rocks as much and you can also rig it on a weedless grub head. If you use a drop of super glue on the collar of the jig head the tube won't slide off.

[Bassinman74]

Ham....I always have a jig tied on and throw a jig just about everytime my boat hits the water. This year, I started to throw a tube instead of a jig just to see how many more fish I can catch. So far, it seems like the fish will hang on to the tube better than the jig (more hook up ratio on the tube). On Tuesday, the water temp around Diamond City was 41....this was on the main lake and in West Sugarloaf...

[watermen]

Basspro sells jigs with fine wire loop that makes tubes almost snag free in the rocks of the rivers. They're called xtreme and are on inside of first shelf before the end at the sprgfld store. Made especially for tubes GL