Winter smallies

[Mr. Aquarium]

I live in Ma. I see people crush smallies in the winter. I’ve caught smallies in the winter but not many. Mostly largemouth. But man I love smallies. Has a smallie jump a few times last weekend. But it was the only one of the day. 

Blades tubes and hairs jigs are what I throw in the winter. Oh these are pond and lake smallies. No river bassing out in these parts 

[Finessegenics]

Winter smallmouth are a complete unknown to me! 

[Susky River Rat]

I mainly fish s river but, I’ll use s tube or ned rig let it sit on bottom. Give it slight wiggle let it sit again.  It’s painful to do but works where I fish.

[TnRiver46]

Winter smallies will still eat a walking bait here so my advice probably won’t help . But One thing I can’t help but say is maybe try a 4” plastic worm, I never go bass fishing without that 

 

Are you fishing from the bank and do you catch smallies thru the fall? 

[roadwarrior]

Rage Tail Baby Craw, Menace and Structure Bug

GYCB Kreature

BPS Tender Tube (#71)

Bandit 200

RES

[Mr. Aquarium]

11 hours ago, Darnold335 said:

I mainly fish s river but, I’ll use s tube or ned rig let it sit on bottom. Give it slight wiggle let it sit again.  It’s painful to do but works where I fish.

That’s how I fish a tube, largemouth!

58 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Winter smallies will still eat a walking bait here so my advice probably won’t help . But One thing I can’t help but say is maybe try a 4” plastic worm, I never go bass fishing without that 

 

Are you fishing from the bank and do you catch smallies thru the fall? 

Yea I fish mostly from a boat, but have caught smallies from shore in December.  I’ve caught smallies all winter long, but not in the numbers I see other guys catchin. All I’ve hear is smallies are on fire in the winter!  Witch crazy bags 

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, Mr. Aquarium said:

That’s how I fish a tube, largemouth!

Yea I fish mostly from a boat, but have caught smallies from shore in December.  I’ve caught smallies all winter long, but not in the numbers I see other guys catchin. All I’ve hear is smallies are on fire in the winter!  Witch crazy bags 

Do they have live bait? Even a night crawler or frozen shad/minnow can get em 

 

I’ve caught some 19-20” smallies on my catfish rigs 30 feet down with a frozen shad 

[Mr. Aquarium]

13 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Do they have live bait? Even a night crawler or frozen shad/minnow can get em 

 

I’ve caught some 19-20” smallies on my catfish rigs 30 feet down with a frozen shad 

Oh yea. Plenty of bait around, I can get shiners and worms easily. I’m a lure guy tho. 

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Aquarium said:

Oh yea. Plenty of bait around, I can get shiners and worms easily. I’m a lure guy tho. 

I was just thinking maybe that’s how those other guys get them. Tiny fluke or gulp minnow on jighead would be next best thing to shiner 

[roadwarrior]

Rig these on a drop shot and DON'T overwork your presentation. This bait is the 

closest thing to live shad and it's killer!

 

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