What lure cuaght your first smallmouth of the year? And how big was it?

Mine was 3.5lbs on a heddon super spook jr.

Keitech easy shiner 3.5" in smallmouth magic color. Rigged in a 1/4oz jig head. I was bed fishing.

Pumpkinseed Berkley power grub rigged on a 1/8oz jighead.

It wasn't huge   But it was my first smallmouth, not just of the year, but ever.

First ever and the year. 2.25lbs on a SK bitsy tube in watermelon chartreuse.

1/8oz mushroom head with a chopped up senko

1/2 oz spinnerbait White & Firetiger.

I was hopping a 3/16oz rippin rap on 4lb test in January

Smithwick rogue DD jerkbait. As I remember it went 3.5lbs.

I have not caught one smallmouth bass this year, they do not like Florida 

 

Roger

I have not caught one smallmouth bass this year, they do not like Florida

Roger

It's hard to catch them when they are not there.

Custom painted 110 (by Doc Drew), not sure what it weighed.

First smallie of the year was caught on an 1/8 ounce ball head jig with a 3" Berkley Powerbait Rippleshad. About 12" long.

My first smallie ever was on a perch xrap 08 on the Big Rideau. Still my go to lure when nothing else is working. 

 

This years first was on a watermelon tube & 3/8 tube jig on Lake St Clair. Tubes work all day long up here.

Spinnerbait.

Still looking for my first this year. So far it's been all green fish.

Blue smoke Gizit tube on a 1/8 tube head. 2lbs flat. 

Gitzit brown craw salt and pepper.

Strike king 1.5 sexy shad.

Caught my first SM of the year today! Probably a pound and a half. It was my first ever sight fish and it was the first fish I caught on a jig I tied myself. 3/8 oz. arkie in a brown craw w/ a SK Baby rage crawl in Alabama Craw on the back. Pretty special fish even if it wasn't very big.  

Haven't fished for smallies this year yet, but last year a 3/8 ounce cavitron black skirted buzzbait caught my first smallie of the year, a 13" 1.25 pounder. A 1/4 ounce buzzbait of the same color and make caught my biggest smallie of the year at just over 4 pounds.

First smallie of the year was a small one.  I caught it in a small stream while dragging a Strike King Bitsy tube back in January.  

 

Here it was:

First smallie of the year was a small one.  I caught it in a small stream while dragging a Strike King Bitsy tube back in January.  

 

Here it was:

Perfect hook placement!

It was 5in Green Pumpkin Senko for me.  I just wish I could catch more of these fish.  They seem either hard for me to catch or hard for me to find.

War Eagle Gold Series Spinnerbait. about a 3 pounder

Albino fluke on a Swarming hornet head spin