The Kracker Bass Tube never went mainstream like the Zoom Super Fluke or the Yamamoto Senko. But among serious tournament anglers in the South and Midwest, it achieved cult status. Stories spread of bass inhaling the tube on the fall, of fish that refused every other bait in the box but crushed the Kracker on the first flip.
Here’s a short piece on the — a niche but memorable piece of fishing gear from the late ’90s and early 2000s. The Kracker Bass Tube: A Rumble in the Reeds kracker bass tube
Part of the mystique was its inconsistency. The internal chamber would occasionally jam, or the tube body would tear after two or three fish. You couldn’t buy them at big-box stores — only at independent tackle shops or through mail-order catalogs. For a while, that scarcity only added to the legend. The Kracker Bass Tube never went mainstream like