Thread: Pretty Bleak

Originally Posted by no1son

No question whatsoever that sunnies are murder on tube tails! I find oddly enough that as long as there is still one, the tube continues to work well; so I normally only replace the tube if all the legs have been torn off. At times it even pays dividends to remove all but a couple to start out with.

We hit a lot of sunnies in our crappie fishing, and they are definitely plastic destroyers, not just on tubes, but also often even worse on twisters of all sizes. That is my biggest gripe with the GULP Alive 1.5" jigging grub. It definitely catches fish, but generally you only get a single one per bait.

I seldom feel the need to use a bobber, but you definitely have a point about the small sized hooks going down real easy. But IMO for sunnies you have to go small in hook size a lot of times or all you get is nibbles short of the hook, resulting in a dramatic increase in destroyed plastic tails.

A trick to get more miles from a tube is to add rubber or silicone legs to your inside jig head. Add a dab of super glue to the jig head and insert it into the tube. This helps to keep the tube in place and eliminates splits. As the plastic legs disappears the rubber or silicone legs will still be in place. Actually I have found that painted heads with the rubber legs works just as well as a tube in most cases.
The picture is a 1 1/2 inch tube,1/32 once head,#8 hook. The legs can be trimmed to fit a 1 inch tube.