I don't think the eye is important for tube jigs.
Using both styles over the years has not made a difference in my catch rate.
the rattles will help, I catch lakers on rattle baits quite a bit. Ill use it to attract them, dead stick it way up in the column while I work my lure and sometimes it will charge right past my lure and hit the rattle bait. That said, I am also not rattling the thing like crazy either. I don't want to annoy them with constant noise from my area.