Flipping Tubes and Hooks used etc.

I use Reaction Innovations Boom Boom Tubes 4.0 and Garlands Original Gitzit tubes when fishing heavy cover such as brush, lilly pads and reeds for LMB.

Over the past year I've started "floating" a 4/0 extra wide gap hook inside the Boom tubes and a 3/0 EWG hook in the Gitzit tubes when fish heavy cover. It seems that my hook-up percentage by this method has only suffered by a minor degree compared to texposing the hook.

I certainly get snagged up much less and am able to fish more effeciently by floating the hook. Or, sometimes lightly skin hooking the hook inside the tube wall.

I use about a half dozen of different brands of tubes and the advantage of the Boom Boom tubes and Gitzits is that the wall of the tubes are softer than many other brands. Perhaps that is why "floating" the hook inside works. The other brands of tubes that are thicker walled I use primarily for SMB fishing with an exposed tube hook in the rocky waters of Lake of the Woods.

Do other tube users use the "floating" the hook inside the tube method?