Entry 99-1

George Cochran On Strike King Lures

George Cochran On The Tube

Editor's Note: George Cochran of Hot Springs, Arkansas, one of the truly-nice guys on the professional bass-fishing circuit and a longtime member of Strike King's Pro Fishing Team, doesn't call attention to himself. But when tournament day arrives, the quiet Cochran becomes one of the fiercest competitors on the tournament trail. The winner of two Bassmaster Classics in 1987 and 1996 and the 2004 BASS Lake Guntersville tournament, Cochran is one of the best shallow-water anglers in the nation. This week, he will tell us some of his go-to baits that have brought him success on the tournament trail.

Cochran: Ever since Denny Brauer won the Bassmaster Classic on the tube, tube baits have been the hottest soft-plastic baits in the marketplace. I've always enjoyed flipping the tube or fishing it like a plastic worm. Last year someone from Arkansas started fishing a new tube color called green- pumpkin with a blue tail, and that color caught fire all over the nation.

Apparently the fellow who first started fishing the bait was dipping a green-pumpkin tube in some type of blue dye to get the right tail color because no one in the market had a tube made this way. So, as soon as Strike King found out that this green-pumpkin tube with a blue tail was the type tube bait that a large number of fishermen wanted to fish, they began to build this new tube. Now Strike King has the green-pumpkin with a powder-blue tail tube that is one of the hottest tubes on the market.

There are two different ways I like to fish this color of tube bait. I use a 3/8-ounce sinker, a Shaw Grigsby Eagle Claws, No. 3.0 or No. 4.0 hook with a wire that will hold the head tight to the hook and flip this tube into heavy cover. When this tube goes into heavy cover, the bass will really eat it up. The other way I like to fish this tube is to fish it in the spring when the bass are spawning and Texas-rig the tube. I use a 1/8-ounce slip sinker up the line and a No. 3.0 or No. 4.0 Eagle Claw hook and flip this tube around shallow water, just like you do a worm. And, I promise you this new color has been catching more bass for more fishermen in more places around the country than any other color. I'm really excited that Strike King has made this color available to more anglers.




 

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