Hello all!

I'm new to the board, wanted to say hello and see what others thought about Strike King's new tube, the Coffee Tube.

My buddy saw an add in a magazine, and picked a couple packages in various colors.  From the ones I've used, they beat any regular tube I've ever fished.  The fish hold on forever, I've got a fish out of the water before he let it out of his mouth (the hook was jammed in the plastic or he'd never got it out).  I like the 3.5" rather than the 4" Flippin' version.  I rig mine Texas style with a 1/16th oz bullet weight and #3 Gamakatzu blood hook.  One of the most chronic rigs I've ever fished.

Anyone else had as good of luck with em?

The strike king coffee scent is one of the best on the market.  I've gone through a lot of tubes, trying to perfect a few techniques with them.  These bad boys are the real deal.

My favorite way to present a tube is with a foam earplug inside of it.  I have used it with tremendous success this way on a carolina rig and weightless as a topwater.  On top, it walks the dog pretty good.  Strike King's various soft plastics are leaving very little room in my tacklebox for crankbaits, topwater plugs, and spinnerbaits.  I rarely use them anymore.

I can't wait until the rest of the Rage Tail and Coffee lineup comes out.  Next year, I might not pick up a hard plastic lure AT ALL.  I'm seriously considering trying this challenge out.

If you do a search there was a whole thread dedicated to this topic last month I believe.

My ? is this. Who of our esteemed advertisers will develop a coffee flavored worm? Shad? Craw? Lizard? first.  Hint! Hint! Brent,,, lol

By the way, the bass here in Ga. prefer Maxwell house!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

my mistake, I searched but only searched a week back.  I have no idea why no one has made coffee flavored anything else?  It would make them more money, and put more fish on my pole...

i wonder if you could put some coffee in a zip lock baggy with some worms would that help any?

THe coffee scent is patented if I'm not mistaken.  Last thing I would want to do is step on Strike King's toes.

Do not want Strike King mad at me either, ,, but how do you patent a scent?   That is like patenting a color or sound.

I use Coffee scent in a lot of my hand poured baits..

worms,,phat-eez ( * ),, critters (flappin hog )and a craw jig trailer .. It works great and smells good too.

Jeff

only thing im saying is making your own scent like put some coffee grounds in a bag with some plastic's.

I like them only had 1 hit so far while picking out a backlash of course! They smell forever. I've had one on my boat for a week and a half now and it still smells like a new one!

Hey boone I tried it. I used some cheapy plastics from walmart. It didn't work very well. I tried marinating them in very strong hot coffee and then put them in a bag with fresh coffee. 1 time in the water and they smell like cheap plastics again.

strike king probably makes it in the bait.

I posted this a long time ago about various scents.  Coffee flavor has been around for a LONG time.  Brew yourself a pot of coffee and soak your plastics in it.  The fish love the smell/taste for some reason.