Must Have Smallmouth Lures?

[mikeeasttn]

Do not forget the Silver Buddy or a Rapala Shap Rap in crawdad color.

[dag623]

All great recomendations by all for sure. Tube, C-Rig, and dropshot are a few more to consider.

[hillbilly318]

Kvd dream shot

Coffee tube

Yamamoto senkos.

Man it seems like you guys down south have it rough with fishin. Or I just have it amazingly good up here in Canada lol

[motodmast]

remeber smallmouth basically live around rocks, whats around rocks? crawfish. there basically a no.1 food source for SMB, so look for hula grubs, or a drop shot with a 4" roboworm.

 

how are you gonna be fishing for them? off shore? pitching to docks?

 

a lot of that has a huge factor into what i will be throwing

[tipptruck1]

For me my small mouth baits are as follows. A white spook, A chrome spro aruko shad, a jerk bait, and white or chartreuse spinner baits.

[EdsBar]

What color tubes would you recommend for deeper water?

[OntarioFishingGuy]

I like brown and green pumpkin colored tubes with bright flake (silver, purple) for deeper water.

[JeziHogg]

If I want a quick limit in a tourny ill throw a ds with a twitch tail minnow

[masterbass]

4" senko

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

If my life depended on catchng a smallmouth. I would have the following rigged up and ready to go:

 

4" Senko  on a wacky jig

 

4" finesse worm on shaky head

 

3.5" Tube

 

3" gulp leech on a drop shot

I've never messed with the Gulp but wanted to try some. Had the leech in my hand and put it down in favor of some 2" minnows I though might make a good finesse drop shot bait. Also, a woolly booger fly makes a good hellgie imitation.  

[fish365]

Depends on time of year or if you are shore or boat fishing. late winter to early spring : a trap slow ticked off rocks. spring to early summer: single swimmer over cover. Summer to late fall: night fishing a jig off main lake points and humps. Late fall to early winter: v-wake a bone color long-A along points and shady bluffs. early to late winter: tightlining, float-n-fly, silver buddy and a hair jig

[Swamp Girl]

So many of you suggest 4" Senkos that I'm sorry I own hundreds of 5" and 6" Senkos, but the bass I catch sure like those bigger ones.

[Wild Idaho]

This year I have been having luck with a Strike King KVD BlueGill Crankbait square bill and Rapalla xrap countdown Clown color.

[RighteousFishing WI]

GARY YAMANMOTO KREATURE BAIT. SERIOUSLY

[BuckMaxx]

Spro mcstick 110 to cover water

Chomper twin tail grub

Water melon bitsy tube

Senko wacky on a jighead...idiot rig

[Violinguy]

Try a Mepps Agila spinner. I know it's kinda of a trout bait but if you get the variety pack Mepps sells there are some good colors.

 

Saw this a few posts back.  Great advice.  The larger Mepps kit (the Basser? or something) works great, especially in rivers.  And you may get a nice trout for the same price.

 

Funny story.  I was fishing with my dad in Maine at a fishing camp after graduating college.  We were on a gigantic lake that was no more than 6 feet deep anywhere, and after about an hour of fishing (with a guide), the only bait that caught any fish was an orange Rapala floating minnow.  Not blue, not silver, only orange.  About an hour before leaving the first day, I got hung up and lost mine (my dad and I each had one).  I caught nothing that hour (tried just about everything I had) while my dad kept reeling in one 3-pounder after another.  I grabbed a new Rapala before dinner that night and the next day we caught about 30 fish each with just that one lure.

 

So here I am 20 years later, and every time I fish for SM, I tie on an orange Rapala.  Sometimes it even catches fish! lol

 

Seriously, my personal favorite would be spinners, tubes, and of course Senkos.

 

VG

[InfamousBG]

If I could only name 2 I would say tubes and grubs. They never let me down.

[Balshy Fishing]

Mr Twister Yellow Twister tails.....game over! 

[everythingthatswims]

For rivers, I like natural colored 4-5" senkos, texas rigged craws, and small jigs with craw trailers. I don't have anywhere to fish for them in still water around here. Just drifting a senko in the current, weightless or texas rigged with a 1/16 or 1/8oz if need be, knocks 'em dead.

[iceintheveins]

1. 3 or 4 inch curly tail grub on 1/8 to 3/8 ounce heads

2. 1/4 - 1/2 Ounce Lipless Cranks

3. Bomber Model 5A and 6A And Similar Cranks

4. 3" Tube

5. Senko

6. Spinnerbait

7. Popper

8. Zara Spook

9. Suspending Jerkbait, especially X rap #8 and #10 and LC Pointer 78 and 100

[Balshy Fishing]

It's crazy. I've thrown my cranks and lipless cranks, spinners and topwater but haven't gotten a BITE yet. Yellow twister tail though, I'll catch with it. 

[WVbassin87]

My best baits for smallest are White Mister Twister grubs and green pumpkin Strike King tubes, both fished on 1/8oz jigheads. If you wanna give top water a try, go buy an Arbogast Jitterbug. Smallies love em.

[Brian Brazier]

Caught my first Smallie today on a Spro Little John in Old Glory. The water was a little murky, and overcast.

[A-Jay]

10 Years later . . . . 

The Jack Hammer gets on this 'list'.

3/8 & 1/2 oz - and don't forget that Zako trailer !

A-Jay

[MickD]

Lots of good advice.  Do I see the rage tail menace on the list?  If not, it deserves to be.  Not the baby, the original.  The tails on the baby don't always "rage" consistently.

 

Anyone with 5 and 6 inch lure who wants to try 4 inch lures, there is an easy way to do it.  Going the other way is more difficult.