Top five smallmouth baits

[gardnerjigman]

KVD Coffee Tube- green pumpkin

One Knocker Spook- Bone

Ned Rig (the real one)

Bladed Jig- C&C Custom Baits- Electric Chicken

KVD 1.0- threadfin shad

 

[RangerDanger]

Bullshad

Pompadour

Mikey

Bladed Jig - C&C - Ivy

[Jar11591]

For me it's:

5" senko

Yamamoto Hula-grub 

2.5" Storm Chugbug

Rapala DT-6 

Live craws (don't use bait anymore but you can't deny the effectiveness of live craws for smallmouth.

[strikefc34]

Super spook, spinnerbait in the wind, Splash it, Kalins grub and the whopper plopper 90.

[WPCfishing]

I've done well with beetle spins, tubes, 1.5 square bills, jerk baits and 4" sticks.

[papajoe222]

Hair jigs, tubes, suspending jerk baits, Spooks and spinnerbaits. Smaller in rivers and in spring.  

[Zachary Nute]

Depending on time of year:

Spring:
Blade bait
Jerkbait
Hair Jig
Drop-Shot

Summer:
Drop-Shot
Finesse Jig
Swimbaits
Topwater

Fall:
Blade bait
Rattle Trap
Drop-Shot
Finesse Jig

Winter:
Blade Bait
Jerkbait
Hair Jig
Shaky Head

Of course this is all dependent upon conditions. But I hope this helps you!


 

[roadwarrior]

Add a lipless crank to the Spring collection, a Rage Tail Menace and Sworming Hornet/ LFT Live Magic Shad year around.

 

 

 

[Ck13fish]

1. 1/2 oz. Football jig with a zoom chunk trailer

2. 4" Tube

3. Rapala Shadow rap shad

4. Senko

5. Hair jig

[A-Jay]

In no particular order:

Drop Shot Rage Craw

Jerkbait

Blade Bait

Tube

Hair Jig

Honorable Mention ~ Spinnerbait

A-Jay

[Keegan G Frawley]

Only rivers

1. Tubes

2. Spinnerbaits

3. Crankbaits

4. Swimbaits

5. Craws, jigs,Ned rig 

top water heddon torpeedos

 

[Justjigger]

Perfect answer

[FryDog62]

5 inch Yamasenko in Blue Pearl Fleck

5 inch Kalin Wac o Worm in Baby Bass

Fat Ika in Blue Pearl Fleck

Shadow Rap/XRap in Hot Head or Chartreuse

Orange 4 inch Hula Grub

Jitterbug for topwater

[offsidewing]

I have "body of water specific" favorites, but these are within reach at all times where ever I'm bass fishing year round:

- Fat Ika (caught 4lb+ fish on every color I've tried)

- 5" Senko weightless. Wacky or T-rigged.  Can't go wrong with Green Pumpkin/Black flake or Black w/ Blue Flake.

- 3.5 inch Fat Gitzit Tube Jig on 1/4oz jig head. Brown Craw Salt and Pepper color.

- Drop shot a 4-5 inch Roboworm 

- 5" Hula Grub.  Weightless or with an 1/8th ounce bullet weight. Same color as Senkos.

If they aren't biting on any of these, they aren't biting.

Added flukes and Ned Rig to my tackle box this year because so many people recommed them.  I also use have crankbaits and swim jigs for when the body of water allows it.

[Fishin' Fool]

On 2/1/2016 at 7:08 PM, ww2farmer said:

On my lake, I target smallmouth early..........like the first couple weeks after ice out, then switch to largemouth for a while until the smallmouth hit the beds. I will bed fish for them a few times to get it out of my system, but I go back to largemouth once I get bored with it. Then just after the smallmouth pull off the beds, but before they go into there summer time stuff, I target them again.................Then it's largemouth all summer, with occasional smallies mixed in. In the fall I will fish for both, often in the same day, but in different places. In 2015 my top 5 smallmouth baits were:

#1 Yum Warning shot nose hooked on a dropshot 

#2 3" Havoc Pit boss on a 3/4 oz. biffle type wobble head

#3 4" wacky rigged yum dinger on a 1/16th oz. wacky jig head

#4  Chatterbait

#5 Silver buddy..........this was the first year I bothered to learn/use this style of bait, and it was eye opening.

Best color of Yum warning shot for smallmouth?

[Bluebasser86]

5 hours ago, Fishin' Fool said:

Best color of Yum warning shot for smallmouth?

I've been doing really well on the oxblood/red flake. I'll bet money that Morning Dawn is going to be a productive color if I ever remember to pick some up! 

["hamma"]

bone colored pop-r

spinnerbait , white or chartruese

1/4 oz jighead with a 3 or 4 inch smoke grub

pins minnow 1/8 oz 

1/8 oz lake fork screwlock weight with a 1/0 gammy ewg hook with either a 4" black chartruese tailed worm, or bluegill colored 4" berkley zipper worm, (not sure they still make these, but i bought bulk years ago)

heddons torpedo topwater

[lakeannaangler]

1. Popper

2. Jerkbait 

3. Finesse jig 

4. Football jig

5. Tube

[Crankinit]

In no particular order, Senko, Popper, Tubes, Spinners, Flies (various)

[Nick S]

Buzzbait 

Yum christie craw

Pearl fluke

Sk 1.5 square bill crankbait

Jig-n-pig 

 

Poor boys erie darter jr- for cold water

 

[scaleface]

Plastic craws , buzz baits , stick worms , tubes , jigs . River  Smallmouths crush buzzbaits .

[joe chum]

4" Yum Dingers on a DS

3.5" Dry Creek Double Tubes w/ Lindy E-Z Tube weights

4" Zoom Dead Ringers Texas rigged with 1/16, 1/8 & 3/16oz.

Lucky Craft Gunfish 95

Lucky Craft Pointer 78

[Yudo1]

4" senkos, rapala x rap 8, coffee tube, 3" grub, fat ika.

[Mark888]

From my experience:

Robo worm drop shotted, popper, senko rigged wacky style, bitsy flipping jig and a trick worm on a shaky head! 

[jimmyjoe]

    Always in current, always in rocks:

   Early-   Betts spin, dark, low and slow.

             Countdown in the shallows.

    Prespawn-  Chartreuse spinnerbait low.                  

                      Rat-l-trap high

   Postspawn-   Deep Little N low

                       Dadevle up high

    Fall-  Black Fury combo (red) low

            Countdown high

The lips on those Countdowns break really easy on rocks. I think I keep Rapala in business.