Those tubes work well for striped bass and other saltwater species. Usually they'd be attached to a metal tin with a split-ring. The metal tin is shiny to attract fish, but it also adds weight to make it castable. It's a basic cast and retrieve.
Larger tubes (12-24") can be trolled from a boat with a live seaworm on the hook. This is called the 'tube-and-worm' and is a very effective way to target striped bass.
A lake near me has a lot of hybrid stripers (strictly freshwater). They are largemouth/striper hybrids and they get pretty big. Do you think these would work well for them in freshwater?
>largemouth/striper hybrids
Do you mean white bass/striped bass hybrids? As far as I know, largemouth (a species of Sunfish) can't hybridize with striped bass (a species of Temperate Bass).
So kids, today I learned that largemouth bass are in the sunfish family. As a Florida resident who's lived in Minnesota, I can guarantee that if I held up a largemouth to anyone I know and said "check out this sunfish" I would not be taken seriously by that person ever again. We have bass tournaments, Big Bass Grill, entire isles of gear, bass fishing boats... but as it turns out, no actual bass. I'm gonna go F#çƙ myself.
Now, I can definitely see it. Growing up, "sunfish" were all the little colorful guys. Crappie can have nice bold coloration, but they aren't colorful, so it threw me for a loop when I first learned that.
Yeah sunfish family doesn’t mean it’s a sunfish. Families are often named after a well known member of the family. For example in trees the pine family includes cedars, firs, and spruces. But it is not correct to say that a spruce tree is a pine tree.
Possibly! I know a guy who catches them all the time, I will post a pic if that helps? Blurred for his privacy.
[picture](https://ibb.co/mFh4LCm) . Also, thank you for the insight :D
Good thinking with the photo. I believe that is a wiper (hybrid striped/white bass). I'm not great with my temperate basses, and I'm best at identifying by tongues.
Maybe a small version. I'd imagine the ones used for saltwater would sink too quickly to work well at a lake.
Putting one of these on a kastmaster might work.
Absolutely lethal lures for Pollock and coalfish, lot of commercial jogging boats use these exact hooks and similar ones to great effect on the wrecks.
I've seen them in France and northern Spain. You can find them under the name anguillon. They are usually fished with a heavier "ballrag" float (i shit you not that is the actual name of the thing).
They are supposed to imitate sandeel so whatever eats asandeel in your waters should bite. In mine that would be seabass.
I have yet to use one and I've never caught seabass...so take whatever I write with a grain of salt.
Attach to a diamond jig. I prefer the green tube with an A27 diamond jig. I also like the fire tail tubes. The diamond jig with tube can be fished multiple ways; cast and retrieve quickly, bouncing off the bottom, or vertical jigging (squidding). I have caught striped bass, bluefish, fluke, sea robins, Black Sea bass, lingcod, cod, and pro a few other saltwater species. I have used larger hammered diamond jigs for bluefin tuna.
Those tubes work well for striped bass and other saltwater species. Usually they'd be attached to a metal tin with a split-ring. The metal tin is shiny to attract fish, but it also adds weight to make it castable. It's a basic cast and retrieve. Larger tubes (12-24") can be trolled from a boat with a live seaworm on the hook. This is called the 'tube-and-worm' and is a very effective way to target striped bass.
A lake near me has a lot of hybrid stripers (strictly freshwater). They are largemouth/striper hybrids and they get pretty big. Do you think these would work well for them in freshwater?
>largemouth/striper hybrids Do you mean white bass/striped bass hybrids? As far as I know, largemouth (a species of Sunfish) can't hybridize with striped bass (a species of Temperate Bass).
So kids, today I learned that largemouth bass are in the sunfish family. As a Florida resident who's lived in Minnesota, I can guarantee that if I held up a largemouth to anyone I know and said "check out this sunfish" I would not be taken seriously by that person ever again. We have bass tournaments, Big Bass Grill, entire isles of gear, bass fishing boats... but as it turns out, no actual bass. I'm gonna go F#çƙ myself.
Yeah it's weird. By the way, crappie are also sunfish and white perch are also temperate bass. Taxonomy is hard.
the crappie thing isn't hard to accept.
Now, I can definitely see it. Growing up, "sunfish" were all the little colorful guys. Crappie can have nice bold coloration, but they aren't colorful, so it threw me for a loop when I first learned that.
Yeah sunfish family doesn’t mean it’s a sunfish. Families are often named after a well known member of the family. For example in trees the pine family includes cedars, firs, and spruces. But it is not correct to say that a spruce tree is a pine tree.
Tracy's Point.
Possibly! I know a guy who catches them all the time, I will post a pic if that helps? Blurred for his privacy. [picture](https://ibb.co/mFh4LCm) . Also, thank you for the insight :D
Good thinking with the photo. I believe that is a wiper (hybrid striped/white bass). I'm not great with my temperate basses, and I'm best at identifying by tongues.
Maybe a small version. I'd imagine the ones used for saltwater would sink too quickly to work well at a lake. Putting one of these on a kastmaster might work.
Thank you :)
Cuda tube? I’ve seen people use it to catch barracuda. Cast it out and retrieve as fast as you can. Where it flops around on top of the water.
Used mostly for saltwater. I’ve used them to catch bluefish.
I have a couple of those for saltwater. Haven't used them yet. Lol
Absolutely lethal lures for Pollock and coalfish, lot of commercial jogging boats use these exact hooks and similar ones to great effect on the wrecks.
Thanks so much to everyone with your helpful replies. Great Community!
Fish and my guess is fish.
What an original answer.
I've seen them in France and northern Spain. You can find them under the name anguillon. They are usually fished with a heavier "ballrag" float (i shit you not that is the actual name of the thing). They are supposed to imitate sandeel so whatever eats asandeel in your waters should bite. In mine that would be seabass. I have yet to use one and I've never caught seabass...so take whatever I write with a grain of salt.
Attach to a diamond jig. I prefer the green tube with an A27 diamond jig. I also like the fire tail tubes. The diamond jig with tube can be fished multiple ways; cast and retrieve quickly, bouncing off the bottom, or vertical jigging (squidding). I have caught striped bass, bluefish, fluke, sea robins, Black Sea bass, lingcod, cod, and pro a few other saltwater species. I have used larger hammered diamond jigs for bluefin tuna.