Casting a tube?

[joedog]

Casting a tube from shore.
What do you do?
How do you rig it?
Anyone ever use a BPS vertical drop hook on tubes?
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Know some river smallie fishermen who swear by them. Guess they don't nose dive like texas rigged or other weighted wide gaps. Say they go through and/or over rocks and such better or easier.
I don't know about vegetation.
Remember I'm casting out bringing it back towards shore.
Do you hop it back? Drag it back? Hop and drag. When boat fishing alot of times SM will hit tubes on the fall or drop. So do you big hop it back, kind of hard jerk let it fall type of thing?
I'm not new to tubes but have always considered them more of a boat bait and or for deeper water bait. (15+)
The areas I'm fishing have rock close to shore but sand, dirt, vegation,(soon), not like river fishing more like lake/pond fishing. May consider from bank on river too, lot more small boulder or hand size mix.
I'm not experiencing near as many snag ups as I anticapated but I'm always willing to learn, so teach me.