I grew up flipping a black and blue tube on the Arkansas River. There weren’t many good hook choices at the time. They weren’t the best because this was before the days of Super Line hooks or good flipping hooks. A straight shank worm hook would work but it was a bear. Tubes were pretty thin too. Eventually flipping a tube lost favor for me.

This spring, I got back to flipping a tube this Spring thanks in large part to the Lazer Trokar Tournament Tube hook. This hook works perfectly for the modern flipping tubes on the market. I have been using a Lunker City Lunker Tube a lot this spring. It’s a thick-walled tube. So that makes penetrating the plastic difficult for most hooks. That means you’re in a Tex-posed situation, where you lay the hook point on the back of the tube, and the just prick the point into the plastic. So as the fish clamps down the point exposes and hooks the fish.