Tubers and river fishers

[joedog]

Anyone ever try this set up?

“I like plain old green pumpkin – no other color is needed,” he said. “Most river anglers rig a tube on an insert jighead. However, I rig the tube with a 1/8-ounce internal weight and a wide gap worm hook – Tex-posed like many anglers do when flipping a tube.”

His smart rigging offers excellent snag-resistance for dragging along the chunk rock and wood debris on the bottom of river eddies and holes.

To rig the tube, he takes a 1/8-ounce bell sinker (with ring wire line-tie), inserts it into the hollow tube body and pushes it to the head of the lure. Then, he inserts the point of a 4/0 wide gap hook into the head of the tube and feeds it through the wire eye on the bell sinker, bringing the hook point out of the side of the tube about ¼-inch behind the head. Then he measures the hook along the tube, pushes the hook point back through the body and out the other side. The last step is to lightly bury the tip of the point under the skin of the tube.

Hughes casts the weighted tube upstream at a 45-degree angle, allowing it to sink to the bottom and tumble with the current. The 2ube is his most-versatile rig, and he throws it in fast-moving shallow water and slack areas of deeper holes, and anywhere in between.