What do you guys think the smallies will be doing in the north, what presentations should I throw at them?

Not sure where in the north you are talking about, river or lake, etc.  Recent reports from Lake St Clair MI indicate that jerkbaits, silver buddies, tubes, lipless cranks are all producing, but not all at the same time.  Interestingly, to get good results from the jerks, the very sharp snap, snap, stop works with the hit on the stop.  This takes a fast action rod, and very aggressive, sharp, jerks, unlike the slower jerks that work on largemouths.  Silver buddies are good for search, drifting tubes to find fish, casting tubes when you find a group, lipless cranks on days when the fish are most active.  

wheres north? are we talking about Canadian north? or US north?

Here in WNY smallies are sitting on beds right now but I'm hammering them in tubes, grubs, flukes, jerk baits. Fishing has slowed down a little already considering they just came into the river two weeks ago and now they are spawning already.