Smallmouth baits non craws

[A-Jay]

2 hours ago, DropShotHotShot said:

Hair jig, check out the Feider Fly

My go to.

A-Jay 

[NHBull]

Last year I re-fell in love with the fat ika, hula grub, and I always have a megabass JB  tied on

[hamma]

im surprised no one has mentioned inline spinners, or spoons.(unless I missed it)

 

  Roostertails, mepps agilia's, and countless other inlines have been responsable for many smallie wallhangers, also 1/2 oz Johnsons weedless spoon tipped with a 3 inch white grub swam through weeds, or a daredevil, little cleo, hopkins, crippled herring in open water.

 Any type of topwater, spinnerbaits. or even try approaching this with a "different" forage base like: catfish, pike, musky,''' or even dare I say cannibalism. and Ive yet to find a body of water a 4 inch white slug-o didnt catch something.

 

 No crayfish?  very odd. this place must produce giants, otherwise,?,..why fish it

 

[bowhunter63]

x alot on hair jigs,3 or 4 inch swim baits on a swim jig.

[Dangerfield]

On 5/1/2019 at 9:12 PM, NHBull said:

fat ika

I'm giving this one a try this year. They look like a grub with a tube dress. How do you rig them? I was thinking a swinging jighead or a tokyo rig

[NHBull]

2 hours ago, Dangerfield said:

I'm giving this one a try this year. They look like a grub with a tube dress. How do you rig them? I was thinking a swinging jighead or a tokyo rig

Many time upside down, like a palm tree.  Youtube has many videos on them.....I usually just use 5/0 EWG

[J Francho]

If you rig them unweighted, as @NHBull says, they sail away from you.  Great dock skipping bait.

[Dangerfield]

17 minutes ago, J Francho said:

If you rig them unweighted, as @NHBull says, they sail away from you.  Great dock skipping bait.

Thanks! I'll give this a shot.

[FryDog62]

On 5/1/2019 at 8:12 PM, NHBull said:

Last year I re-fell in love with the fat ika, hula grub, and I always have a megabass JB  tied on

I agree.  Another one on the same ilk as the Ika is Keitech salty tube...

[Ineedanewscreenname20190512]

Never had any luck with craws around my area either. My go-to smallie bait has always been Tubes. Personal favorites are Strike King Coffee Tubes, jig em off the bottom, or swim em, either way works pretty good for me. I'd give her a try personally ? 

[ww2farmer]

Smallmouth in the spring are far less picky than any other time of the year. I have caught them on frogs, and chatterbaits while largemouth fishing. And then things like the ned rig.....you can't NOT catch a smallmouth on it, even if you soaked it in gasoline.

[TnRiver46]

I consider a tube a “craw bait.” I catch most of my smallmouth (and largemouth) with a plastic worm