Spring 2024
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W
ithout a doubt, the number
of soft plastics baits on the
market for bass fisherman to choose from, seems to be endless.
A “Stupid Tube”
Every year there seems to be a “new,” hot
design in the plastic bait world that most
manufactures will all put into production.
And yes, these baits will catch bass…and
anglers, but there is one soft plastic bait
that seems to have fallen off the radar, the
tube bait.
The tube bait may be off the radar
to some anglers, but other anglers are
putting the tube bait to work and using
it to clean up in flipping situations, and
more commonly when fishing for offshore
smallmouth.
So yes, we all know that the tube can
be Texas-rigged and flipped over a creature
bait or jig, and that an open hooked tube jig can be inserted into the hollow body cavity and be
FISHING A STUPID TUBE
drug over rocks reefs and on over flats for big water
We all know about the Ned Rig or jig worm (as it’s
smallmouth. But there are two other ways that a
known in the upper Midwest), but a very similar rig
tube can be rigged that will allow anglers to show bass
is what some have called the stupid tube. What this
something they may not have seen in a while, or ever.
entails is taking a 2- or 2.5-inch tube bait and sliding it
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