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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 flipping jigs and he used Flounder Pounder Curl Tail Tubes for his personal trailers. He always wanted solid white tubes so that he could dye 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. to use for their trailer hooks. 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 into the wild too, said a spool of line could cost 20 to 30 dollars if you ran out. They took in Pounders for themselves and others, they took them into the wild. They took them because they caught fish. A lot of fish from a lot of places have eaten these tubes, and they still do.

I can still see my little nephew that night, even after 20 years. The trout were thick enough to walk on in the light. We were fishing the famed Seawall in Galveston and the water was calm and clear clean. The fish had tight mouths and nothing seemed to draw their attention. We had thrown all we had and then some. Robert walked up the stairs with a split tail tube and a curly tail tube and asked Uncle Joe to rig them in tandem. Joe set to it and was going to rig them like any over under tandem when Robert asked him to rig them as you see them in the photo. Robert when back down and started into the trout like he had been doing it for the whole night. He sat and caught each mans limit by himself during the night on this rig. As he put it, he had wrecked the specks all night long. Well the name came from that night and each night after that for the entire beach season. It became the Speck Wrecker and it has not changed since then. But what makes it special? Well for starters it is in - line and not off set. Second the lead curl tail is weighted, and the trailer is a floater. Its the trailer that gets nailed over and over again. You'll see when you fish it.