Okay guys, what do you think? Pros and cons of each in comparison, which do you use when and which is your favorite application for one or the other?

Tight lines,

Matthew

I don't try to compare them as I use them to accomplish slightly different things.

 

Shad or Baitfish colored baits?

 

With a tube, I like to use a light weight allowing the bait to sink in a slow circle like a dying baitfish.  I have also skipped them like an escaping minnow.  With a single tailed grub, I like to swim them on a heavier jig head at various depths.

 

Crawdad colors?

 

A nose weighted tube or a t-rigged twin tail grub being dragged along the bottom both attract bass feeding on crawdads.  I use the tube when the bite is slower or when I want to dead stick the bait, and a grub when the bite is more active.

I always have a tube rigged and ready to go on one rod. They will catch fish anywhere, anytime. No cons for tubes.

 

A 4" grub on an 1/8oz jighead will catch anything that swims. The only con for a jighead/grub is the exposed hook. They will get hung up.

 

You want to try something almost nobody throws? Get some GYCB 6" grubs and T-rig "em.

To me they serve 2 different purposes.

 

I generally use tubes as a bottom bait.  Dragging it or slowly reeling it across the bottom.  Maybe hopping it from time to time.

 

When I want to cover more water I use a grub.

 

 

Both rock!

I will often use both of those when fishing for river smallmouth but to me, they aren't even close to the same category. A grub is the original swim bait, is is a moving bait, basically a finesse reaction bait until you get into the larger sizes but you either cast and retrieve or you hop. The tube is a way different animal, you rig them Texas style or with an exposed jig head or an inside jig head and what you do depends on how it is rigged. The Texas rig you are either pitching, flipping, or casting to cover and employing a lift and drop, hop, or drag and the same deal for other rigging options only the places you throw them change, I never use a tube with a steady retrieve like I do with a grub. So for me I'm not deciding on which one I want to use but which one I NEED to use because I really can't use the grub to replace a tube in most situations that a tube would be the best choice.

I like grubs better as trailers than a standalone thing, and in that respect I prefer the twin-tail variety.

 

Smaller tubes on a drop-shot is high confidence presentation for me - some days they outproduce Roboworms on the same rig for me.

 

On bigger tubes, I like to put some weight inside them and drag them across the bottom after they spiral down.

Reelin' a grub, bouncin' a tube....

Swim a grub drag or hop a tube