Dip the tails of tubes or any other soft plastic lure into a dipping dye. This adds contrast, color and will increase strikes. - Phoenix Lures

Use dart head jigs in place of traditional cylinder tube jigs. The dart head adds action, spirals on the fall and works more erratically on the bottom. - Phoenix Lures

The most important tip anyone can offer is maintaining sharp hooks no matter what the fish species, lure or presentation. You can't have too sharp a hook! - Phoenix Lures

Learn to setup and effectively use your marine electronics! Simply running them on auto settings out of the box will cause you to miss most of these high tech units fish finding features. - Phoenix Lures

Smallmouth are constantly on the move! Learn to read currents, forage movements and habitat preferences. But mostly learn to fish the fish, not the spots! - Phoenix Lures

Learn to master the ultimate tough times technique."Drop-Shotting". This hybrid born in perch and crappie fishing keeps your bass lure in the face of finicky large and smallmouth bass! - Phoenix Lures

When fishing tubes in dirty and/or on a low visibility day, add a rattle to your tube. This natural noise will attract more fish! - Phoenix Lures

Slide a Perfection Series Tube over top of a jigging spoon for deepwater bass. The tentacles and extreme erratic action will attract these deepwater dwellers! - Phoenix Lures