12-20-11, 07:39 AM | #1 |
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The Improved Boob Tube Rig
From your inventor of the Fish-N-Fool knot comes; "The Boob Tube rig".
Note; I posted this last year, but I have made a few improvements to it since then I want to share. Here is a new way to fish a tube that I came up with that has turned into a killer technique, See below for the required parts. I want to point out that I don't make or sell any of the parts for this rig so you will have to find them yourself. So use any make of tube you like. You cut a piece of old worm about a 1/2' long to make a plug you put into the back of the tube to form a air pocket inside the tube. For a loud rattle you can drop a glass rattle into the tube before gluing the plug in place. I have found for colder water the tube will collapse from the air shrinking, so I use an old earplug, just roll it up tight and slide it into the head of the bait. it will expand to make a tight fit. Then I use clear silicone seal it up or one of the worm glues, so the bait stays soft but air tight. A plug off a non-Salt would work best for this, like off a grub or something. It is stronger plastic to hold the hook better and it is lighter so it floats. I set up a standard Carolina rig and hook my boob tube with my gammy finesse hook into the part I put the plug into like in the 5th pixs, I go in the center of the plug that I put in and out the side of the tube making sure the hook does not go into the air chamber. This makes the tube float straight up giving it the best action. I like about 15" of line between the hook and the swivel. This makes the bait float up above the bottom of the lake. If you give the bait a little slack it pulls line through the weight and floats up, tightening up on it pulls the bait down and makes the beads clack on the weight and the skirt on the bait flares out give bass something they have never seen before. You can work this rig up and down clacking it and making the bait skirt flare, as you inch it across the bottom. Killer for SM on the Flats and for weeded up lakes it works great with a little longer line from the hook to the weight. I use a large bead next to the swivel so it slides over the knot and does not rest on it, so it can't damage your knot. Then a smaller bead for more clack. I make up the baits ahead of time so when you need a new one it only takes a sec to rig up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is what you will need to make the Boob tube rig, first a tube you like, a scrap worm to make the plug out of, a casting weight with an eye on one end, a hook (gammy red finesse 1/0), 2 beads one large and a smaller, and a barrel swivel. Cut your plug about 1/2" long If you want put in a glass rattle and then glue the plug in place. With the plug in place it will look like this. The hook goes in from the center of the plug bottom and out the side of the tube. That way when you fish it it will look like this. So this is how the rig works if you let line out, the tube will pull line through the weight and float up. I heavier weight works best for this like a 1 oz so the bait moves and not the weight when you pop it. Pull on the line and the tube will go back down and the skirt will flare out each time you pull. It looks a lot like a crawdad sinking in the water. When the swivel hits the beads against the weight it makes a loud clack. Plus you can pop the bait while it is floating up to make the rattle in the tube clack. The Smallies seem to love this rig over here. I think I'll call it the "Fish-N-Fool Boob Tube rig" :dance: You need to be a line watcher with this rig as when a fish takes it the line will slip through the weight. So the fish will not feel the weight at all and you will just see the line going out, when that happens SET THE HOOOOK!!!! LOL So, hope you like my Boob tube rig.
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12-20-11, 07:52 AM | #2 |
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Dang, that looks very interresting. I'll have to add that to my list of things to try out this spring.
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Fish-N-Fool, welcome back to the site, Great post. I have a feeling I just may learn a thing or two from you. I'm looking forward to it.
Thanks, looks very interesting. Will definitely try!
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That looks very interesting ..
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A Yamamoto Ika works the same way. Maybe a little less buoyant though.
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Here's a lil sumpn I like that's the same only different. Pic is a little styro float cut in 1/2..closed cell foam works real good too. I just use it on a c-rig but I promise that if you give it some slack it will do the "yo-yo" thing. It also does amazing things as a jig trailer. Rattle=optional. A colored sharpie will give lots of color choices. Zoom Craw-pappy has a hollow head! Can be rigged with either hook shown or anglers choice.**I know this is old news to some of you but....If you really want to have some fun in the spring stuff 1/2 an Alka-Seltzer in there instead of the float***
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Just wondering how well this might work presenting big Toro or Ish tubes in the 7" range, and how much weight I would need to keep the whole thing anchored to the bottom?
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http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Canyo...page-CPTT.html
http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Basst...e-BASTRXT.html http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Mizmo...e-MIZMISH.html http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Gitzi...page-GZST.html Big tubes. Those rigs you have there are similar to the Neko rig(?). I tried it this summer in the salt water with Gulp eels.(with moderate success) Never thought of using "floating" plastics. Probably be great with a Jika rig too. The craw is a good idea too, it's so hard to find floating plastics. http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Damik...cpage-DNS.html Last edited by Dogmatic; 12-20-11 at 08:28 PM. |
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I like all those baits you linked but the bastrix would be my pick. Of course none of the baits I've pictured are a majic bullet, but they have produced some uncanny results for me in lots of different situations and BOW's. They always present vertical (a look most bass just have not seen), almost always suck them in whole (rare to get a nibbler or short striker or missed fish) and as mentioned you can get these plastics to sink at very slow rate. If I find fish suspended at whatever depth i can put that z-man right in their face and hang it there, twitch-p a u s e-twitch......fantastic tool for hooking some fish that just won't eat a jerkbait or a slider or whatever. Finally if you stuff that Craw-pappy with a good float on lets say a 3/16 or so jig you get a fall rate that is so slow that you have to see it to believe it..especially on heavy mono. Since the vertical worm/bottom weight presentation works best with a light wire exposed hook, it's not for everbody or every situation, but when its working.......hold on.
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I like every setup shown so far.
Never been big on tubes but I am now. Thanks everyone!
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will float a rock
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I guess ZMan makes a whole line of floating plastics, the "z" series...toobz, crawz, shadz, frogz, and creaturez. going to try 'em out this spring.
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