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Location: Holly, MI | Who uses 'em? As a primary or a toss back lure? Are you cutting off the treble and just using the jig head hook? Seems weedless and bottom snag free this way, ie to crawl it like a jig. If you are just casting it are you giving it action with the reel or the rod? Side to side or up and down? How about colors?
I sure like the looks of them but never fished tubes even for bass and don't know quite what to do.
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Location: Woodstock, IL | I picked up a pair last fall for a throwback; however hadn't had the chance to use them yet. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | I've used the TT since my trip to LOTW last year. In that system, on numerous occasions, I saw its effectiveness as a throw back bait, even to the point of simply dropping it over the side of the boat and "bouncing" it near where a follow-fish just turned away. One is now always rigged up wherever I've fished although it has not been near as effective as on LOTW for whatever reason.
I have not cut off the treble hook on TTs. That would work well in heavy cover, but it has not been a sure hooking bait that I've seen so I've left all the metal on there.
Once in a while a friend and I have tried it as a "primary" bait versus toss-back, with luke warm success. It is easy to twitch, bottom bounce, pull/stop/pull, etc. It works through the water easily so you do not have to do anything drastic with your rod or arms/wrists.
The bigger model white TT has been my favorite and chartreuse has worked also. |
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| Here in the twin cities right now Gander Mountain has tiger tubes in their clearence bin in both sizes for $6.97,,,maybe you can get ganders in other cities to match that price |
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Location: Cudahy, Wisconsin | All Gander's have them at that price. |
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Location: ashtabula ohio | www.mooreslures.com 1.70 a piece . |
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Location: oswego, il | I made mine into spinners. they work pretty good. they do a nice drop and the blade still spins. |
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| Todd -
You got a picture of that?
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Location: oswego, il | Baldy, I do not. I basically make up a front end of a spinner and attach with a split ring. Because it attaches on top of the tub, it does not spin, can be retrieved at any speed and will keep spinning when it falls. I also use a colorado blade, I feel it will spin the best when worked slow. |
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| Todd -
Are we talking inline or safety pin? I assumed safety pin, but it sounds like inline.
Thanks -
Luke |
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Location: oswego, il | Baldy, I am talking inline. Safety pin would work good too. |
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Location: Kalamazoo, MI | They work well with a zara spook stuffed inside them, too. Punch the hook holders from the spook through the tube, hang some 4x's and they turn neutrally bouyant.
I imagine putting corks or styrofoam in them may have interesting results also. Very versatile baits!
Edited by spieg 3/7/2004 11:33 PM
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Location: new paris ohio | Something else to try . Put about 3/4 to 1 oz. of weight either in the spook or between it and the tube to make it nuteraly bouyant. And twitch twitch twitch , if you get it right it will have awsome action. |
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| Gotcha, Todd. I am going to give that a try. |
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Location: ashtabula ohio | dang spieg! what a great idea...! i gotta try that. |
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Location: West Bend, WI | Does that spook still float?or does it work a foot or two under now?I'm gona have to try that a gliding tube. nice!! |
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Location: Kalamazoo, MI | plitzz, it all depends on hooks. If you go with a 2x or something, it will still work on or just under the surface. I put some bigger 4x's on it, and found it hangs out around 3-5ft deep. |
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| I personally don't like em'. You gotta work em too slow. Need something with a bit of speed!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: SOUTHERN..MN | hey spieg,
very cool idea!..i'm gonna try that too...thanks!
alan |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Awesome Spieg, I think you are on to something. If you can get one to stay on top that would be deadly. |
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| Its seems you would have to use the rings and line ties of the spook, way to if`ie on the duriablity for me.I just can`t justify losing a monster fish on a bass bait. I suppose it would be all right for a numbers lake, maybe. Don`t get me wrong, in-genius thought went into the design though.All in all there is other preffered rubber that I would throw, so I am not a big fan of those baits anyhow! |
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Location: oswego, il | Handyman, I bet there are some wood glide baits that would fit in that thing too, not just a zara spook. Something to think about. |
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| Actually, if you match your tackle to your lure, you will not have a problem losing big fish. I fish a super spook in a tiger tube, throw it with a flippin stick and a reel spooled with 30 lb braid. I set the drag appropriately so that the drag is the first thing to let loose on a big fish.
I did use better split rings when I put it all back together, though.
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Tiger Tubes ?