Luke-
Tubes are great! I love to fish tubes in various situations. I've flipped them into shallow water with no weight and just let them fall then twitch them back up...WHAM! I've flipped them into cover with weight/rattles impregnated within the tube....WHAM! I've even thrown them onto pads and moss beds as a topwater....WHAM!

If you are going to add weight to a tube, add it from the inside, or even with a pre-weighted hook. By using a bullet weight T-Rigged, you lose a lot of the erratic behavior that makes a tube awesome. It then tends to fall just straight down, being pulled down by the weight. When the weight is inside, the tube will fall erraticaly (side-to-side), causing some vicious strikes.

Also, add some spike-it to the tails, or some other type of scent. This helps. Always rig them weedless to save yourself a lot of hassel. My go to colors are watermelon with red, green pumpkin, and junebug. Good luck!

-Rich