I hear tubes are great lures, so i want to start using them. What are the best tubes and colors?

Mizmo Grandes: Black Red Neon, Black Blue Neon and

Road Kill Camo

http://www.mizmo.com/basstubes.html

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I have to go with the El Grande Tubes in Watermelon Copper and Bluegill.

Well, here is another different answer:

I enjoy using BPS Tender Tubes.  Any shade of brown or green will work just fine.

I have tubes of different brands ( Zoom, Yum, BPS ), I don 't find one being better than other, so why do I have from different brands ? well, one brand has colors I like the other one doesn 't have that 's why.

I also like the Micro Munch Tackle El Gordo.

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I agree, I'm not sure one brand is any better (although I tend to like the original Bobby Garland Gitzit) (probably for nostalgia sake).

I like watermellon pepper or similar...color #200 in the gitzit.

I use a custom poured 1/16 oz jig head, this seems to help with finicky bites.

The key to a tube is...the slower you move it the better...it's a lazy bait. They guy who taught me told me, "You should be able to a  sandwich in the time it takes to complete one cast."  Not literally, but you get the idea.

I like the El Grande tubes for a few reasons:

- The colors are great and most of them aren't available anywhere else (the smallies LOVE Watermelon Copper).

- The ribs give the tube a little more grit, so they hang in the fishes mouth longer (sometimes).

- They are a little tougher than most tubes and the heads are thicker.

Other than that, I agree with Raul, before I used El Grande tubes, they were all the same to me. I just got different brands because of the colors.

I like BPS Tender tubes and the Magnum Flipping tubes.  I also like a tube made by Cabin Creek Baits near here in Winchester.  I really like browns and greens and smoke colors

Green pumpkin, black neon, smoke, pumpkin seed are all of the colors I ever need.

Green pumpkin here,rigging it the stupid tube method using the XPS tube jig with the wide gammy hook. Roadmaster, how's the black with blue flake workin for you? I've often thought about trying that color

Outlaw Baits in Old Ugly and Dry Creek Outfitters' buzzard snot.  Any brand in green pumpkin.  If I have those colors, i'm set.