From your inventor of the Fish-N-Fool knot comes;

[Fish-N-Fool]

The BOOB Tube Rig;

Here is a totally new way to fish tubes that I came up with that has turned into a killer technique, See below for the required parts. 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 glueing the plug in place. I use clear silicone to do that, 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 (I used this salt bait as it is what I had handy that I didnt care if I cut up). Unsalted plastic is stronger to hold the hook better and it is lighter so it floats the rig better also. 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 the line pulls the bait back 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 like the brass weights best for this rig as I think they put out the best sound. 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. To stir up the bottom more you can use the backward bullet weight trick for this too.
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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, some kind of non-harding glue, a weight of either lead, tungstun, or brass, a hook (gammy red finesse 1/0), 2 beads one large and a smaller, and a swivel (with or with out the snap).




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. I like to tie any hook that has an offset hookeye on with a snell knot, any hook with a straight hookeye I always use the Fish-N-Fool Knot.



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. Pull on the line and the tube will go back down and the skirt will flare out each time you pull. I like to use a braid main line for this with a mono or fluoro leader, as the braid will pull through the weight easier and the bait will float up better. When you do get a bite the low stretch of the braid will help also and this rig has some slack in it by nature. Fished this way it looks alot 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"



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.

[Volman482]

Very Interesting!!
Gona try it.

[brendanc]

Volman... what's that guy in the picture smokin'?

Fish-N-Fool, very cool idea... it will certainly peek their curiosity and looks like it will trigger a reaction strike too.

[Crestliner]

I must have missed this one earlier this season! GREAT idea! A floating Carolina rig - good one. Not sure how many of you fish the IKA this way or not, but you are missing out if you haven't tried either rig.

[gubahead]

Wow, absolutely brilliant. Can't wait to try it. I'm also gonna try the fish-in fool knot and i went to your site and bought some sin-kin fools.

[Fish-N-Fool]

In using this method more, I have found that heavy casting type weights with a swivel molded into the weight works the best. They keep the bait in one place better and the line slides through the swivel on the weight better. I like the 3/4 and 1 oz weights for this the best.

[crs]

looks like it would be worth trying