Another New Lure Innovation!!

[Caudawg]

From our friends at Fish Bait Media Productions and featured on WFN I found a new rig that has real potential.
The Boob Tube Rig

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[Fish-N-Fool Lures]

Hi all, I found your site here from Fish Bait Media Productions a national internet based fishing radio show where I will be a guest speaker on the 17th of this month. My name is Rick Lawrence inventor of the Fish-N-Fool Knot that won Knot Wars and I own Fish-N-Fool lures based out of Sandpoint, Idaho, a small soft plastic bass lures company. I'm also the inventor of the Boob Tube rig that is the topic of this post. I hope to be a regular poster here as I didn't know of this site before now. I wanted to share with you another rig I have been using that is another cool idea of mine.

I'm kinda the mad scientist of bass fishing world. I invent new things all the time as well as new lures (like my soon to be world famous "Sink-N-Fool" bait) and I'm always looking at things and figuring how to make it different and or better.
I took a couple things and turned it into a new technique that I call the Craw weighted dropshot rig. First I tie on a dropshot hook like the one in the picture below (Sorry I forget who makes these) with a double Palomar knot. I like this type of hook for larger minnow baits. I leave about a foot and a half of tag end to tie on my craw weight. Tie a wide gap Gammy Finesse hook on the end of the line. I like to tie it on with a Snell knot on hooks that have a bent eye. Snell knots are very ez to tie and very strong.
To make my craw weight I take a medium size tube bait in a craw looking color (this is one of my home made tubes by the way) either in a brown or green. I take a large egg style sinker and push it up into the tube till it hits the top of the tube. Now take an old round worm and cut it into 1/2" long pieces. Note you can add a glass rattle into the tube before you plug it for extra sound effects.



Apply a little glue (clear window silicone works great for this as does some of the soft plastic glues) and push the piece into the tube like so,



That will give you a bait that looks like this



Then after the glue is totally dry you insert the wide gap finesse hook into the center of the plug you glued in place and out the side of the tube. You should make these up a few days ahead of time, so they are good and cured. They should look like this.



(Note this is a off shoot of my boob tube rig I showed here last year.)
So with the craw weight rigged under a dropshot hook like so;



The cool part of this is, now you have your dropshot weight that looks just like a crawdad standing up in defense mode and you have a nice minnow bait swimming just above it. So it looks to a big hungry bass like the minnow is chasing the craw. Another great thing about this rig is the craw tube weight hardly ever gets hung up and if it does you only loose the tube and weight inside it.



I first tried this using the craw weight alone and got some nice fish but by adding the dropshot hook above it it is like fishing two techniques at once.

Now I just shake the rod tip to make the minnow dance and make the rattle in the craw tube clack. If you are in a good rocky area a slow drag works great too.
Check out this short video to see how the craw tube weight works;
Just click on the picture to watch the video.




I fish this with a weedless hook a lot if I'm fishing in or around any wood.
I make my own weedless hooks out of the same Gammy 1/0 finesse hook. Here is how to tie them.
You take a short piece of 80lb mono and make a loop out of it and tie it on the hook with the tag ends facing toward the front of the hook and tie it on with some small braid using a snell knot ,like this.



After you get it tied on just bend the mono down over the hook point in a V and trim the ends just long enough to cover the hook point.

I have some other tips I hope to share with you guys later as well. Also please check out the Fish Bait Radio Show that I will be the guest speaker on the 17th of this month. I will post a invite to the show in another thread.

So try out my craw weighted dropshot rig and give it a shot next year. I think you will like it and please tell me what you think of my rig here.

[Fish-N-Fool Lures]

Any comments???

[mark poulson]

We all think we're the only ones watching it, and want to keep it a secret!
Seriously, it is a clever and interesting rig.
Thanks for sharing.

[Caudawg]

Rick, I love new ideas and your post with all the pics is greatly appreciated. Posts like these get our site users thinking. And yes, many would prefer to discover stuff like this and keep it a secret a while.
Too bad!! HAHAHHA! We'll keep bumping it to the top with replies/bumps.

The funny thing about a post like yours is that our site users are probably already thinking of other cool ways to take your innovation even further with other enhancements.

Keep the good ideas coming! And Welcome Aboard!

[acm95301]

This looks like a neat way to do the double drop rig. The double drop rig has been around for a while but the head down orientation of the tube is cool. There are a million different tube presentations and the worm plug or rearward hooking isnt new either, but cool adding them together.

I don't generally like double drop rigs to catch numbers but it probably helps search for the prefered depth the bass want and potentially sort out which colors they want too.

[acm95301]

Also the boob rig looks like a carolina rig with a floating bait. In fishermen magazine published a small book of 10 best rigs and the C-rig was it, and one of the variations was a floating tube bait.

I have not used the bell sinker part, I wonder if the small eyelet is for easier line passage? Otherwise a broader c-rig weight might be better. Also a cork or foam plug provides the floatation.

Again, the reverse tube look is cool.

[Fish-N-Fool Lures]

Rick,
The funny thing about a post like yours is that our site users are probably already thinking of other cool ways to take your innovation even further with other enhancements.

Keep the good ideas coming! And Welcome Aboard!

I'd love to see some innovations to my ideas. I would hope that if anybody comes up with an offshoot of this they will post it as well and share with everyone like I have.
I have some other cool tips I will post then I get some time. Tnx for the welcome aboard.

[Bobby T]

Don't be discouraged when you see all the views and no comments. Keep posting your Ideas, we see all kinds of variations of deferent things. Some of us fish outside the box but don't post about it. Those who have looked at some of the creations my brother and I come up with probably worry about our state of mind. LOL

[mark poulson]

Rick,
The funny thing about a post like yours is that our site users are probably already thinking of other cool ways to take your innovation even further with other enhancements.

Keep the good ideas coming! And Welcome Aboard!

I'd love to see some innovations to my ideas. I would hope that if anybody comes up with an offshoot of this they will post it as well and share with everyone like I have.
I have some other cool tips I will post then I get some time. Tnx for the welcome aboard.

Have you tried a circle hook with the tube?

[Fish-N-Fool Lures]

I have not used the bell sinker part, I wonder if the small eyelet is for easier line passage? Otherwise a broader c-rig weight might be better. Also a cork or foam plug provides the floatation.

Again, the reverse tube look is cool.

I use the casting type weight because it has the molded in swivel. I have tried bullet weights and egg sinkers in the past and the line just does not slip through the weight good enough like it does with this type of sinker. Any weight with a larger metal eye will work just as well, as long as the bead would go through it. The other thing that is important is to use somewhat larger tubes that have more buoyancy and the rolled up earplugs so the tube doesn't collapse.

[Fish-N-Fool Lures]

Have you tried a circle hook with the tube?

I have not, sad to say I have never even used a circle hook at all. But I have never had a problem hooking fish deep with the rigs I have used.