New River Smallies

[rowyourboat]

im smallmouth fishing on the newriver where it flows into bluestone lake. its a rocky river. depth is no more than 12 ft in the area. the water is clear and in the low 80s. ive had luck with wacky senkos and tubes. i was thinking of hitting some cranks off the bottom for a bigger bite. maybe a crig? any other ideas???

[clayton86]

Football head jig with a rage craw rusty craw for jig color 3/8oz and bama craw for the rage craw trailer winner winner smallie crawfish dinner

[Crestliner2008]

Try a Sweet Beaver on a 3/0 weighted swimbait hook....the kind with the screw on the eye.

[Bill Porter]

Love fishing the New River!!! Get a guide to take you out or you can seriously hurt yourself, your boat, or worse becasue the waters are unforgiving! There is only one true go to bait for the New River, the Case Plastics Sinkin Salty Minnow 3 3/4 inch. The white or pearl hologram are deadly in that body of water, they will be good in your local river or stream if you live in WV also. The trick to these baits are to use a #1 size hook in a WG Finesse, not a 1/0 but a #1 very important difference. Hook it right through where the eyes balls would be, the action is truly unique and you'll slay em. BUY MORE THAN ONE PACK OR YOUR KICK YOURSELF IN THE #^@ when you run out in an hour. The large helgrammites are killer too, the natural color is unbeatable. Smallies think its candy, throw it in a nice fast flowing pocket and hold on! Ask any guide in the WV area and he will tell you Case Plastics! I am pretty partial to Gary Yamamoto baits but Case Plastics are incredible and very AFFORDABLE as well. Try the Jack's worms too, you can get 2 packs for the price of one pack of GY Senkos. Good luck and Let's Go Mountaineers!!

[Pegwedge]

I fished the New this weekend except I was on the other end of Bluestone right below the dam under the bridge. Some of the most fun I've had fishing. The sad part is I only live about an hour and a half away and had never been there. Definitely be heading back there in the future. We didn't catch anything huge but it was one of my more successful days.

Edit: I just realized I added nothing to the conversation. We were mostly using Rebel Crawdads and bouncing them off the rocks on the bottom. Also caught a few on some smaller Rapala cranks and my favorite a Luhr Jensen Super Duper. Like I said, nothing real big but we caught a lot.