Product Description:
The tube was designed many years ago to replicate a squid, a natural bait for bass living near brackish water along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. Squid would migrate into fresh water where bass would feed. The popularity of the bait spread into the inland fisheries throughout the United States. Many professional anglers have won a lot of tournament money using this bait. The hollow body allows you to insert a rattle. The HardHead Tube is a 6 inch magnum tube made for durability with a 1 inch solid hard head, so the bait will last longer, improving the fish catching ability over tubes whose entire body is hollow. The name says it all... it is a tube with a hard head! If you need a shorter tube, the 4 inch Super Tube is available.
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Fishing Tips:
Flippin this bait around boat docks is one of the most popular methods to fish the HardHead Tube; the fishing method intended by the original designers. The HardHead Tube is one of the few baits that allow you to skip it across the top of the water to land it up under boat docks. Using a light sinker pegged to the head, the smooth streamline design of the HardHead Tube allows it to skip across the surface of the water. Flipping this bait under and around boat docks can catch you a lot of fish.
Using a heavy weight, just let the tube punch through heavy cover, like grass, brush tops, timber and other structure, and let it fall. The tube falls straight down and doesn’t hang up easily on structure.
Flip the tube around live timber, like Cypress and Willow trees. On lakes where there is a lot of vegetation, such as Coontail Moss around Cypress trees, there is usually a clear area between tree and the vegetation a couple of inches wide — flip the tube into that clear area and let it fall down beside the tree and you will find out that this is a very effective method to catch fish.
The hollow body permits you to insert rattles in the bait, so when you flip the bait into the territory of a fish, you can jerk the bait up and down to make it rattle, aggravating waiting fish and triggering a reaction strike. Punch heavy grass and fish that one spot, jerking the bait up and down while the grass is holding your line; fish will move toward your rattling tube.
This bait can also be fished Carolina rigged, Texas rigged, Florida rigged with a screw lock, like a jerk bait, and like a top water bait over grass mats.
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