Going to bass fish at greers ferry lake in northern Arkansas. Wondering what type of bait to use for smallmouth and large mouth. The depth is anywhere from 20-50ft. They just put 37,000 shad in each end of the lake because the bass ate them all. I was thinking a deep diving shad colored crankbait. Or maybe a spinner bait?

The Rage Tail Menace is another option that has been working for me.

Not knowing anything about that lake, I try throwing differnt cranks in all areas of the water column, throw some swimming baits (swim baits, Cut R's etc) in scattered grass, and jigs all over the place. 

 

Mike 

I´ve been to a lot of lakes in my life, bass are bass here and in China and it´s more a matter of locating the fish than with what you are going to catch them:

Soft plastic worms have caught bass in 100% of those places

Lipless Cranks another 100 %

Spinnerbaits another 100%

Jigs .... guess what ? yup, you guessed right, another 100%

So, the best bait for ANY lake no matter where in the world are: those baits I mentioned above.