Favourite Deep Water Techniques?

[Justin Mahaney]

We all know many of the large smallmouth hangout in the deeper waters, I Was curious what  some of your favourite techniques are to pull these lunker smallies out of thier deep hiding places?

I personally have had alot of luck around sunken islands almost jigging a spinner bait up the hill.

[roadwarrior]

Yep, a 3/4 oz Ledgebuster Single Willow Blade. My most successful

technique is lifting the lure with long draws and letting it fall on slack

line. Give that a try!

8-)

[Justin Mahaney]

Yep  ;D

[Justin Mahaney]

Id actually like to touch up on why you should use a willow over a colorado or any custom blade for this  technique..  just so those who arent familiar with working spinner baits in this fashion have an understanding of what your trying to accomplish.

The willow blades take much less force to get spinning, so when your working the spinnerbait up the "hill" on an offshore hump, you want to pull up quickly to get those blades spinning.  Than let it drop.. Making sure your  reeling in any slack because these monsters love to hit the spinner bait on its fall.  So remember spinner baits can be very usefull tools in the tackle box, but blade selection can be key.

Now for colour, I prefer using a brown/red combination and a white/chartreuse when they dont want to feed on the crawfish colours.

Spinner baits are Generally used in shallow water, but let me tell you these deep water  bass love it just as much.

[bronzeman]

Dropshot a tube or 4" worm.

[Dogface]

Twister tails on a lead head jig. Jig it, swim it or troll it.

[wisturkeyhunter]

Grub on a lead head. Cast it out let it sink for awhile then slowly bring it in either a steady relieve or jigging it back. That will work in about every depth of water you'll find smallies plus a bunch of other fish can be caught doing that too. A bonus walleye is always welcomed on the table.

[Justin Mahaney]

Grub on a lead head. Cast it out let it sink for awhile then slowly bring it in either a steady relieve or jigging it back. That will work in about every depth of water you'll find smallies plus a bunch of other fish can be caught doing that too. A bonus walleye is always welcomed on the table.

Thats True     Ive caught many walleye while smallmouth fishing, and same goes for the smallmouth ive caught while walleye fishing  

[mrmacwvu1]

just thought i would ask this here as opposed to starting another thread

do you find it best to swim your grub or jig it

i always thought of a grub as imitating a minnow so i always swim them and vary the speed to cover the different depths of water

for that reason i always use a lighter color grub for the waters i fish

[zachvii]

I would agree that drop shot is a great way to get large smallies in deep water! Tube or Roboworm.

[roadwarrior]

just thought i would ask this here as opposed to starting another thread

do you find it best to swim your grub or jig it

i always thought of a grub as imitating a minnow so i always swim them and vary the speed to cover the different depths of water

for that reason i always use a lighter color grub for the waters i fish

I agree, the grub imitates a baitfish so I swim them, exclusively.

I only fish two colors: smoke or clear with silver flakes.

8-)

[CJ]

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned a dragging a jig or tube.  :-?

[mrmacwvu1]

well that is productive but about as fun as being back boated

[Crestliner2008]

Here's another vote for the drop shot. But I also have a rod set-up with a tube and hard jerk.

[thetr20one]

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned a dragging a jig or tube. :-?

That is me too. May not be the most fun method but it is a very productive method. I would rather catch fish the boring way than continuously cast and reel with little results. Not saying the others mentioned do not catch fish.

[roadwarrior]

Tubes are always the ticket, year around!

Jigs may be, too.

If you're more interested in "catching" rather

than just "fishing", live shiners on a split shot

rig will generally produce both numbers and size.

8-)