Hey guys I'm heading up to my camp in central maine next week to fish a lake I've never been to for smallmouth. I am wondering where I should look to find these smallies? What kind of cover and structure do they like and what works well around it? Will I find any decent fish in shallow this time of year? Also by just looking at a map of the lake what areas should hold fish? Any info would help! Thanks!

I'm not sure on what type of water temps you have but my #1 thing I would search for first is rocky points.  Either Primary or Secondary.    If there are docks or seawalls fish those also.  Especially if they have rock. 

I'm not sure on what type of water temps you have but my #1 thing I would search for first is rocky points.  Either Primary or Secondary.    If there are docks or seawalls fish those also.  Especially if they have rock. 

 

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Yup - deep rocks - the bigger the better.

 

A-Jay

I always have trouble fishing rocks, are tubes the bait to use or is there down thing that works better in those areas? Thanks for the input!

tubes work well, drag a crawfish color tube where theres smallies and it will get bit. try a dropshot with various plastics, football jigs, shakey heads, topwater, spinnerbaits, lipless cranks, etc

Carolina Rig deep rocks, even better if there is a weed bed nearby.