Quote Originally Posted by chippo View Post
On hollow tube jigs I herd a neat tip. Put jig head eye in tube feed head inside and poke eye out at end of tube and that keeps it on The jig head barb doesn't keep hollow tubes on long
Yeah, If you're gonna use hollow tubes ... my suggestion is to buy "insert" jig heads (shaped like the end of a baseball bat).

I quit using hollow tubes and went to solid body tubes, long ago, for that reason (tore up too easily). Rarely have a solid body tube get yanked down on the hook.

Once I even went to using Super Glue Gel to glue the hollow tube to the jighead ... worked fine for awhile. The only problem was that the Bluegill kept nipping off strands of the skirt and eventually all I had was the core of the body. Then I had to take my pocket knife and scrape off the body & glue remnants ... then start over. Nowadays, I may have the same solid body tube on for the whole day, if not for several separate trips. Plus with using weedless jigheads ... inserting is all but impossible. And I haven't noticed any difference in the hit rate.