Are they more prone to hang up in rocks and where should you fish them?

I routinely fish 4" size tube jigs for smallies in the rocky areas of Lake of the Woods in one to ten feet of water and of all my drop baits they are the least likely to get hung up.

I fish them two ways. One with an open style hook tube jig--so the hook point is exposed. When they do get hung up it is mostly on the hook point and usually I can get them off the rock by "twanging" the rod/line. They do get hung up more often when I want to fish both the backside and the front of large boulders. I'm pitching tubes on the back side of large boulders and then pulling the jig over the top of the boulder.

The other way I fish them is with an inside the tube weight and texposed. Primarily use this in mixed rocks and vegetation. Or doing a lot of pitching to the back side of boulders as above. With this method they get hung up very seldom.

My experience is that the large diameter head of the tube and the lack of a lead weight on the outside of the tube helps to reduce hang-ups. Bass style jigs, or 1/16 oz. and heavier weights on worms, craws, etc just seem to get hung up much more often.

I think what happened was that the tube jig I was fishing got wedged between two rocks and I was fishing from shore so I couldnt get it without the help of a boat which I didnt have :'(

There's not alot you can do about getting hung in rocks, other than buying more baits and terminal.  I find them less prone to hanging up when rigged texposed with a internal weight but more so when using a jighead.

T-rigged with an internal weight is working well for me. 3/16 gives it that slow spiral of death feel at least in calmer water.

Recently switched to this after running out of fat IKAs.