I use my electronics to find deep smallies. I will look on the GPS and depending on the time of year I will look for humps, breaks, ect.. I will idle over the area circle staring at the screen looking for bait. As soon as I find bait I will drop the drop-shot down and see if there are any smallies holding with them. Or sometimes you will just see a couple of fish, then I will look at the length of them and look at how long they are inproportion to the depth, I like to find those 18-24 inch fish. Then drop it down and see what they are. If they are smallies then 9/10 then will eat it.