flounder pounder
tube lures
This is the second generation of Flounder Pounder Lures.
Balanced interchangeable lures. It features the weight inside, and a heavy
double hook that rides up. The head and hook fit two different body styles.
The Split Tail Tube and the Curly Tail Tube.
Both Tube Tails give two distinct appearances in the water. It
is only how you rig it. Place the tails up or down when you pop out your
line tie eye.
Some Texas Game Wardens fish with the Curl Tail Tubes for
redfish. I bet they would even tell you some stories if you asked. Imagine a
flounder lure that catches reds good enough for our Texas Game Wardens. I am still a
Split Tail Tube fan when
I fish
for flounder with a single tube lure. A nice fellow by the name of John Chapman once
kicked me down and then helped me up only to kick me down again with a strawberry
white Curl Tail Tube. You would think after about an 18 fish lead that I
would have tied one on that day. But I am a Split Tail Tube fan!
Swim jigs are hot right now, but years ago a man who made
Gator Hawk Lures was making the early swim jigs, it had not yet become the
rage it is today. It was a well kept secret almost. He made the jigs and he
used Flounder Pounder Curl
Tail Tubes for his personal trailers. He always wanted solid white tubes so that he could die them.
But what he loved the most was that he could put 3-4 big bubble rattles
inside them after he rigged it on his swim jig. It was because they have
such thick walls. Those swimming jigs sounded like nuclear rattling
swimming jigs.
The Pharmacists were extremely fond of this rig. They
used both the Curl Tail and Split Tail tubes with this rig.
This unique lure allowed them to tip with minnows, leaches,
and night crawlers worms. They were
able to choose which type of hooks and size. It's always
in line and its natural for the trailers in tow.
From trebles of any size to single hooks. Flounder
anglers do the same thing with live minnows, fresh strips, shrimp
and squid. You will always fish two zones with these rigs.
My next story about the tube tails
comes from the very first call I ever received about them. An elderly fisherman from Alvin, Texas called me up to let me
know what a wonderful lure we had made. He said he was catching a whole
bunch of fish with them, like he had never done before. When I asked him
what all he was catching, his reply was Phil you have made the greatest
catfish lures ever. Turns out he was running his line in the front tying on
his treble hook in the back and then filling the tube with Little Stinker
Supreme catfish bait or he just filled the Tube rigged single . Then he just pulled the hook into the back of the tail.
When a catfish chewed it, the tubes kept releasing bait. After a while he
started punching holes in them and stuffing them into punch bait as well. Flounder, Reds, Bass, Catfish, I thought that was really
neat, and then came the two pharmacist's. These two Gentlemen came to the shop
for about 4 years straight. They only came once a year and they bought Tube Pounders for their annual walleye
and smallmouth trips in Canada. They went deep too, said a spool of
line could cost 20 to 30 dollars if you ran out. A lot of fish from
a lot of places have eaten these tubes, and they still do.
Flounder Pounder Tube Lures, These deadly
effective interchangeable cheating jigs can be fished alone, tandem rigged
with live bait and natural trailers, as well as with each other.
