Is it worth to fish tubes on lakes that have only Spots and Large Mouth bass?
When I was in "Yankee Land" years ago, we fished them for Small Mouth, and did whack a few Large Mouth on them. Since moving to the south years ago, I have not thrown one for 25+ years.
Hartwell and Russell do not have Small Mouth that I know of. Keowee and Jocasse may have some, but we never fish them.
Ideas?
Why wouldn't they eat something that could look like a minnow, craw, or some other critter?
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My buddy lives 10 minutes from Hartwell. He comes with me to Ontario and fishes nothing but tubes for smallies for a week. He keeps saying that he needs to fish them at Harwell, but I don't know if he has done so yet or not. Spots and largemouth both love them! Flipping a tube or skipping a tube around cover for largemouth is a proven pattern, so why wouldn't a largemouth hit one fished deep and off shore? They will...we catch largemouth doing this all summer in my local lakes.
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Tubes are great for large mouths, Texas rig it and pop it while swimming it it will give it a huge jerkbait action as the bullet weight slides forward on the line. And you can do that on part of a cast to change speed, style depth to help you figure out a pattern
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They’ll catch largemouth or spots easy enough. At night I fish a 4” magnum flipping tube deep offshore & catch smallmouth, largemouth & spots.
I drag a lot of 4" tubes, smallmouth, spots and largemouth will all hit them really well. I prefer a tube head for dragging, and use one that rigs "stupid style".
I always have a Texas rigged Strike King Coffee Tube rigged. Black & blue. Great for flipping docks and weeds. Great bait.
I also have a standard rigged tube for open water smallmouth.
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One of the best all around, catch everything that swims, lures ever invented. Can always catch bass on a Strike King tube when nothing else is working. Deep, shallow, dirty, clear, vegetation, or open water. Always have 1 tied on!
Tubes are deadly for all bass
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I catch a bunch of largemouth on them.
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I used to use tubes in Florida when I was a kid but for some reason I stopped. I am going to start flipping them and pulling them through the vegetation again very soon! They have always caught fish for me and a lot of people down here don’t use them.
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I have good luck fishing tubes over submerged weedbeds for spots, smallies, largies here on Whiskeytown Lake. Weightless, with an oldschool Shaw Grigsby tube hook. I use it as a 'Ned rig' when Ned's not getting bit. Slow fall and doesn't pick up a lot of veg.
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If they will eat a jig they will eat a tube
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Thanks guys for the info... Just finished rigging one on, and will give it a shot next time I'm on the water.
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