Best Producing Smallie Plastic?

[RevoSEMIpro]

Strike King Coffee tubes or a 4" Senko, do a lot of damage with both.

[out_doors_guy]

In no particualr order:

NetBait Tiny Paca Craws

4" Yamamoto Senkos

Kinami Double Tail Hua grubs

BPS Tubes

Colors I prefer would be green pumpkin, smoke, watermelon/red flake and black

[Dan C]

Ned rig 

[roadwarrior]

Rage Tail Menace

 

[Patrick Reif]

Tubes, flukes, grubs and stick baits all have a place and time.  I always have a tube tied on because it's a 12 month bait. Flukes can be deadly in spring around emerging grass and fallen trees.  Grubs can be fan cast and covers a lot of water to find feeding fish.  Sticks are good around all kinds of cover, but skipping them under docks can be fire. 

 

Never forget the Ned rig either

[MGF]

I don't know if I could pick a "best". Most of my smallmouth fishing is in a river. I use tubes, flukes, yum dingers, rage structure bugs, sweet beavers, grubs, hula grubs and zman/ned rig.

 

Most of them I use in more than one application and I've had good results with all.

[Kdizzle]

My PB Smallie was on a TRD Craw from Zman, but I usually get the most numbers from Berkley Chigger Craws either on a football head or on a Split Shot rig.

[Ogandrews]

4” Senko, rage menace, 2.5 inch power tube, and a strike king dream shot

[TnRiver46]

1. Small tube

2. small tube

3. Finesse worm 

[MickD]

On 5/13/2012 at 2:38 PM, RevoSEMIpro said:

Strike King Coffee tubes or a 4" Senko, do a lot of damage with both.

Best color tube?  If you had to pick one.

[A-Jay]

21 minutes ago, MickD said:

Best color tube?  If you had to pick one.

Provider Tackle Performance Series Bite Size - BBQ Melon 3.5 inch

 

A-Jay

 

 

[roadwarrior]

Gitzit "Baby Diaper" yellow.

 

[Ogandrews]

2 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Gitzit "Baby Diaper" yellow.

 

God that’s a great name for a color

[MickD]

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Provider Tackle Performance Series Bite Size - BBQ Melon 3.5 inch

 

A-Jay

 

 

That color works very well on Sag Bay and St Clair.  But there is one in the coffee tube line that's even better.  From my experience.

[ne_dan]

Last couple of years 3.5” Swim Senko in Goby has been killer for me usually on a 1/8 to 3/16 jig head.

[Fin S]

3.8" Keitech on a flashy swimmer or a 3.5" SK Coffee Tube

[Cantcatchbass]

I love coffee tubes

[Vilas15]

I've got more 2.75" tubes than 3.5" lately. I also use Keitech easy shiner swimbaits. They have a more minnow like shape than the swing impacts and I like the colors that can be a little more translucent without the ribs of the swing impacts. The easy shiner perch color is as close to a real perch as I think I can get.

[Siebert Outdoors]

Last smallie trip it was a TRD and a Rage Bug.

[RoLo]

 

Kalin 5.0" Lunker Grub - smoke hologram

Strike King 3½” Coffee Tube - green pumpkin

 

Roger

[RoLo]

On 4/4/2020 at 9:02 AM, roadwarrior said:

Rage Tail Menace

 

 

There's something about that girl I like  

 

Roger

[BassNJake]

Love green pumpkin and copper

Another favorite is Smoke Silver-Black and Gold

 

[NorcalBassin]

In the two lakes I get to fish with a population of smallmouth, the best producers have been the 3" Gitzit Chub Tube in brown craw S&P and the 2.75" Dry Creek Drop Shot tube in baby bass. However, my biggest smallmouth have pretty much all been on a deep driving crankbait when I wasn't targeting them.

 

[M Bruns]

Zoom Fluke in pearl 

[OperationEagle]

On 4/4/2020 at 3:51 AM, Dan C said:

Ned rig 

I find it strange that it took to page four to mention the Ned.