Well, yesterday was nearly a stinker of a day, they've been destroying any and all baitfish imitations, and I definitely went to sleep on it, spent a couple hours down on the river and snagged a single pound and a bit fish off a handful of baits, was about to give up when it struck me that I had not tried anything to imitate a crawfish yet. Tied on a tube and it was on like donkey Kong from the first cast, probably landed 8 fish in 15 minutes, but I definitely wasn't listening to the fish yesterday, I should have been on that tube an hour before I was, next time you start getting frustrated at not getting bit, try listening to the fish, it sure saved my day.

Sometimes you gotta throw the change-up.

2 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Sometimes you gotta throw the change-up.

This time I caught them swinging too ?

Smallmouth fishing without tubes? I would never……

7 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Smallmouth fishing without tubes? I would never……

I got a bunch, just haven't had any reason to put down the power fishing lures and go to one in several weeks 

I'd have made the same mistake. Smallies are usually cued in on bait fish up here. 

It’s amazing isn’t it, they just want what they want. Good thinking @Sphynx.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen them busting shad on the surface and I threw a tube in there and hooked up immediately. They’ll always eat a tube, in fact I always out fish live crawdads with a tube (drum won’t lay off live craw)