Flipping And Pitching

[EvanT123]

I read about this a lot and it seems it's always geared toward largies. Heavy duty rods heavy baits etc. I was anchored up on a spot yesterday next to a drop off 6 to 19 feet pretty steep on the river. There was also a small rocky point. I saw this rock jutting out in the water about 10 feet from the bow and flicked my tube up on it and it felt like it hit the smallie right in the mouth.

It's not something I do often but does anyone else flip or pitch for smallmouth? What are you using bait wise? And looking for structure/cover wise?

[Bluebasser86]

I guess I wouldn't really consider that flipping and pitching, just making short cast. I do catch smallies pitching at docks a lot while fishing one lake that has good populations of both smallies and largemouth. Other than that I don't remember catching more than a handful of smallies pitching, mainly while fishing standing timber for largemouth on lakes that have both. 

[scaleface]

 Pitching for smallmouths works well. If I'm in smallmouth waters plastic craws are what i usually use .

[clayton86]

I did it years ago in a tournament with a guy from work. Big drop off that ran the probably a mile down the north side of the lake. A lot of downed trees and structure old brigdge slabs of concrete hanging off the ledge. I stood on the bow of his 14' aluminum deep V like it was a casting platform and flipped a football head jig at the old bridge parts and was picking smallies off like crazy.

[churchcc12]

I pitch for smallmouth pretty often, but I don't really flip for anything honestly. It's something I might work on soon. I'll pitch pretty much anything honestly, and I use the same gear that I do for largemouths. Most often I pitch tubes if I have them on a baitcaster, flukes, and texas rigged plastics (usually craws)