I watch all the fishing shows and I thought I have been learning alot. But I can not seem to even get a strike from a tube. Where I fish.... The potomac and Nothern Va I have NEVER EVER had a bite on a tube. I fish it just like a jig. Through weeds around pileings, rock piles, lily pads and all around structure. I just cannot seem to get bite whatsoever. Now I can fish one spot with a tube all day long and then turn around and throw a finessee worm and I'm slamming all kinds of bass. Now can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong????

I can fish one spot with a tube all day long and then turn around and throw a finessee worm and I'm slamming all kinds of bass. Now can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong???

Not switching sooner?  Kidding, I dunno.  I'm in NoVA and rarely throw tubes either because I just can't get them to bite it.  Same with a Beaver.  I don't bother tossing either one anymore.

HAHA No i just said that I would throw it all day cuz after about 15 mins I get ticked off and grab my old faithful worm and start slamming them. I just don't know what to do to make them work.... I even add garlic spray to all of them.

I only use tubes on smallies in the rapids in Virginia, rivers like the James and the Rappahanack. They work really good for smallies, I have never caught an lmb on one. The last two times I went out I caught 5 smallies one day and 6 the other day all on (Gitzit) tubes.

I do fairly well on the upper Potomac with tubes for smallies. A couple weeks back when the river was EXTREMELY high, I found smallies holding in the flooded brush just off the edge of the current. I'd pitch a t-rigged tube around the brush until I figured out what part of the brush they were holding on. On normal levels, I just work the tube along the bottom working it with the current. When the Potomac is clear, I try to match the tube color as close as I can with the bottom. In stained water, I'll switch up to something like watermelon/chart tail or maybe junebug. Muddy water, black or black and blue. I always use the lightest weight I can get away with but with the Potomac rising aver 3' in a day, the lightest weight may be on the heavy side. Hope this helps!

Just yesterday i went out and i was using tubes, but i didn't get a bite, but my buddy who came with me was usin a crankbait and he caught 4 large mouth and we were both castin out in the same general area, but the small mouth in my icon picture i caught using a tube. so maybe the big mouths just dont go for them as much if not at all.

first time I really used tubes was at Beaver dam and I felt like I did pretty well, I tried using the owner phantom hooks and I couldn't get a good hookset with them for one reason or another...I then switched to a bullet weight and a 3/0 ewg.  I like tubes now =D