Hey guys, thinking about trying some tube baits but not sure which ones or whether I need them. I have some Yamamoto Fat Ika's, do I need anything else? If so what kind and what kind of hooks?

The Fat Ika isn't really a tube bait, although it resembles one. 

For starters, I'd recommend a tube in the 3.5in. range rigged with an internal tube jig.  If you'll be fishing cover, be aware that the exposed hook will get you hung up fairly easily. The more you fish that rigging, the better you'll get at feeling your way through cover and avoiding many snags.  The reason I stick with the internal jig is because that gives the tube the most action on the fall and that is when the majority of your bites can happen.  'Stupid' rigging the jig, or using internal weights and T-rigging are weedless alternatives, but you loose some of that spiraling action.

Glen did a video on rigging tube baits and another on fishing them. Worth checking out.

This is the setup I use for a tube. A 3/16-1/4 oz tungsten, Trokar tube hook, and a 3.5 inch tube of your favorite color. I sometimes like to insert a rattle. I use 3 main colors. A shad type color, green pumpkin, and junebug. Sometimes a black neon tube is the ticket, but one of the 3 mentioned above usually gets the job done. 

 

If I move up to a 4 inch tube, I adjust the weight to the cover I'm fishing, but same hook.

@Buffdaddy54 I encourage you to learn how to fish the tube and learn to fish it well because I can not think of a better bed fishing bait. 

 

The 3.5” Gitzit tourney tube in brown craw/S&P is one of the best clear water baits for the waters I fish. Old faithful 

https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/rig-tube-bait.html

Hard to beat a black neon tube bait....however you rig em

I have Gizits and a couple of other brands . Dont even know what they are . They all work .

I my pretty sure if you do a search you might find a Gitzit Kit, it will have exactly what you need. Check out Case tubes and BPS has a good tube selections. 

Ok, just got back from my local BassPro and once again they were out of colors and sizes I was looking for along with being out of appropriate sized internal weights. So,  I got a 4 inch size watermelon color.I'm going to rig with a wide gap hook and was wondering if I can put the weight inside the tube as opposed to outside in a normal tex rig fashion. Will this adversely affect the action?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I watched the video with Glenn and that helps a lot. I'm fishing mainly lakes and ponds with a lot of vegetation.

Also, the weights they did have were a two pack and not cheap. I've seen them on eBay for the same price as BassPro but in a 10 pack. Any idea if these are decent quality?

As long as the eBay ones are using good hooks like Gamys or mustads they should be fine.  Thats what I use and catch lots of fish on tubes.  

 

My favorite color for BPS tubes is Puke only because the streams around here are full of crayfish of that color.  Another good color is green pumpkin with red flake. I typically use the 4” magnum flipping tubes from BPS. 

On 7/28/2018 at 10:05 AM, scaleface said:

I have Gizits and a couple of other brands . Dont even know what they are . They all work .

What size are the tubes in the kit. Is this a flipping kit?