My wife stopped by a tackle shop and picked me a couple of things for Valentine's Day.  One of them happened to be a pack of Reaction Strike Tubes.  The tackle shop had just put them on the shelf.

It has to be one of the weirdest tube baits I have ever seen.  They look like some one made a tube bait out of a softplastic minnow.  I couldn't find them on their website but I did find a link for a Texas tackle shop that has them.  Let me know what you guys think.....

http://www.texasbasstackle.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=734

Interesting, nice looking patterns.

They are definately different looking, some of the patterns look pretty sweet.  Let us know how they work.

I think that those are the heads of their paddletail tubes, but with a skirt instead of the paddletails.  Same color patterns as well.

How many tubes are in a pack?

How many tubes are in a pack?

There are six to a pack and they cost $6.  At a buck a piece, I may not be buying these to often.  One other thing, they smell like a new rubber tire. The stench is pretty strong.  I may be putting some sort of attractent on them.

...they smell like a new rubber tire. The stench is pretty strong.

That would be a BIG no-no for me. When fishing for smallmouth, the bite is often a reaction strike, but with largemouth it's more often "feeding" or purely inquisitive. Some of my biggest bass caught on tubes have been picked up when the lure is sitting. (Originally the Gitzit was designed as a "do nothing" lure). Scent and texture are VERY important attributes of soft plastics, especially tubes.

As alternatives, I recommend Micro Munch Tackle El Gordo, Mizmo Big Boys for largemouth and 3 1/2" Mizmos for smallmouth (Kent's Clasic, squash green).

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...they smell like a new rubber tire. The stench is pretty strong.

That would be a BIG no-no for me. When fishing for smallmouth, the bite is often a reaction strike, but with largemouth it's more often "feeding" or purely inquisitive. Some of my biggest bass caught on tubes have been picked up when the lure is sitting. (Originally the Gitzit was designed as a "do nothing" lure). Scent and texture are VERY important attributes of soft plastics, especially tubes.

As alternatives, I recommend Micro Munch Tackle El Gordo, Mizmo Big Boys for largemouth and 3 1/2" Mizmos for smallmouth (Kent's Clasic, squash green).

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RW,

Do you know of any of the big chain stores or some one online that might have Micro Munch Tackle tubes?  My local tackle shop does not carry them.

Nope.

As far as I know you have to order them direct from our very own Graig DeFronzo (BassResource author and member):

http://micromunchjigs.homestead.com/Directory.html

I also fish his jigs.

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