Help! haven't caught anything on tubes!!

[karol]

this year i've been trying to catch more bass on tubes and if you look in my plano's i have every color of Xtreme bass tackle tubes but for some reason this year i've caught more on soft plastics like chigger craws and also some twin tail skirted grubs in the g-3 color.

fished deeper water this year with bigger 5" tubes but nothing worked except those craws and then only for pike.. any help would be good..Karol

[Waterfoul]

It's easy.  Fish where the smallmouth are.   

[karol]

 but,but , i live in indiana, any smallies here? i'm not a wawasee laker

and we hide our fish from each other. so no secrets here

[thedude]

oh from indiana.... well - it's a little late now, but green pumpkin or black/blue tubes flip it around docks. texas rig them or weightless or with a small insert weight on an EWG and skip them under docks/boats or any other shallow cover. i used to also run them on a carolina rig. Works on schafer, freeman, morse, geist, james, wawasee, maxi, pine/stone..... you name it.

[Got Fish??]

This time of year, It's all about a reaction bite. I think thedude hit it on the button. With a Carolina rig, work it!

[Waterfoul]

Head NORTH young man!!  The land of smallies awaits!

[motocross269]

I have had some luck using a tube like a plastic Jerkbait on inland lakes for both LM and SM.....Rig it texas style or on a light weight jig head and find the cadence and fall that is working that day...

[Mike S.]

Move to Michigan. I fish the Xtreme Muskegon Lake Goby tube everywhere, and usually have very good luck with it. From the east side to the west side it catches fish. I always rig it on a 1/8 tube jig. That's the only way I use them.

[bigjc]

i've caught more on soft plastics like chigger craws and also some twin tail skirted grubs in the g-3 color.

Them Xtreme grubs in g-3 are dynomite...but don't tell anyone else.  Lets keep that our little secret.  They work on both smallies and largemouth on just about any lake!!!  One of my go-to baits.

Anyway, have you tried the little drop shot tubes?  Those work great as well.  I think that tubes have a time and place were they excel, but that grub is ultra versitle.

[fiker]

I too have most of the Xtreme tube colors. 

I fish Canadian Mist, G3, and Slither most of the time with most of the techniques listed above. 

I also texas rig em with tungsten weights ahead of the hook in areas where I wish to drag them along.  Usually this means in river current. 

I've also used a 2/0 straight shanked hook to drop shot the larger tubes.  I thread it through the nose and out the back to leave an exposed hook.  I was fishing with a guide this fall and he thought it was a pretty big hook to be drop shotting with.   At least he did until I caught a couple of smallies on it.

I've also rigged em weightless on a 5/0 ewg and fished em like frogs over mats and weeds.
This also works for fishing them with a technique kinds of like a fluke & walk the dog combo. 
For these last two techniques I usually use the Emerald shiner color.  But this also depends on water clarity and light conditions.