Top five smallmouth baits

[Snipe Hunter]

1 .Chartreuse skirted spinnerbaits, The blade is less important

2. Creature baits/tubes

3. Senko

4. Torpedo

5. Grubs

[Honkytonk]

Keitech swing impact fat 3.8 in pro blue/ red pearl on a jighead, has been my best smallie bait

[DoDFire]

Hair jigs....... 1/8 oz. In the winter, 1\16 oz in the dead of summer, I know a bunch will scratch their head about the summer deal but trust me it works. Ohhhh yeah and I fish it on a 9'crappie rod in summer as well 2-4 pound line.......keep scratch's your heads, LoL.

 

Lake Fish'n I sling Hair jigs, blade baits, jerk baits, spy baits, football jigs, wake'n a bomber long A. 

River Fish'n (wading) Fluke and Rebel Wee Craw

 

Each and every true "trophy"  smallmouth I have caught was caught on 1\8 oz hair jig. Go figure.

[Turkey sandwich]

Hair jigs, in the rite condition can work year round. A ridiculou ser number of smallmouth have been cast on Clouser Deep minnows and Lucky's Deceivers and they're very similar, just presented on a fly rod.  The other bonus with a hair jig is that walleye seem to love them year round, too, so it's a good way to catch dinner.  (I am an awful intentional walleye fisherman and never really learned them well.  That said, those I have caught seemed to love hair jigs, especially if trailed with a plastic worm or live leach. )

[DoDFire]

2 minutes ago, Turkey sandwich said:

Hair jigs, in the rite condition can work year round. A ridiculou ser number of smallmouth have been cast on Clouser Deep minnows and Lucky's Deceivers and they're very similar, just presented on a fly rod.  The other bonus with a hair jig is that walleye seem to love them year round, too, so it's a good way to catch dinner.  (I am an awful intentional walleye fisherman and never really learned them well.  That said, those I have caught seemed to love hair jigs, especially if trailed with a plastic worm or live leach. )

In the winter and summer I never use a trailer on the small jigs, I have fished with people in my boat that have used a minnow or plastic during those times and I have caught just as many of not more than them. I do fish a trailer in my 1\4 oz buck tails on summer nights.....Uncle Josh 101's in black. I use fox tail in winter on the 1\8 oz, craft hair on 1\16 oz. in summer and bucktail on the 1\4 oz. at night during summer. Hair is a big deal often overlooked and that's fine with me. I fish one day 2 years ago and it never got above 13 degrees with 45 degree water temp. I arrived at the boat ramp right at day light as well as 1 other boat. I fished til I had about 1 hour if day light to go as well as the other boat and we both arrived back at the same time. As we loaded up we had the dock talk and I asked if they did any good and they used a few words and said NO but they had 1-2 hits all day (I'd been loaded and out by lunch if that was me) they then asked me if I did any good and I told them I caught 24 and with a crazy look they asked if I was crappie fishing. I said "nope, chase's smallmouth" they looked at me like I was crazy and then asked what I was using I said, hair jig.........you could hear the ice freezing harder hahahaha. They slung everything in the boat they said and nothing. I had 24 all day with my best 5 weighing about 19 pounds. I will never forget that day. I did give them a dozen jigs and told them to share, the next time I seen them they just loved me and then bought another dz. Hair jigs flat out catch fish.

[Jagg]

That aspirin head looks real nice! I've been using more hair jigs here in CO, but I only use them in certain conditions in TX.

[DoDFire]

13 hours ago, Jagg said:

That aspirin head looks real nice! I've been using more hair jigs here in CO, but I only use them in certain conditions in TX.

Great little head and you would be surprised how snag free it is in the rocks. That is my dragging head for the 1\8 and 1\16 oz hair jigs in winter, I use it in 1\4 oz during summer nights.

[Deeare]

I've had great luck in summer using a baby brush hog on a c rig in the northeast.  dragged slowly on the bottom.  Green/natural colors.  Fish it near a drop off if possible

[MichiganBass80]

Dropshot (dreamshot, half shell, roboworm), spinnerbait, crankbait, tube, jerkbait

[Sammies77]

Spinnerbait 

Buzzbait

Mann's baby 1-

Jig-n-plastic 

Fluke