jrhennecke has it right!! YUM Dingers Carolina Pumpkin / Chartreuse

White or Chartreuse Spinnerbait

I also like to toss out a 4" Silver Xrap.

And for the odd wicked strike a 4.5" Zara Spook Pearl/Red Eye

Spring: Water temp 40's to low 50's

Rapapla X-rap or Rogue. ( purle ghost/purple gold)(Silver black back)

                                   

Water temp: 55 to 70's

1/2 oz Home made Single blade colorado (4.5 or 5 gold blade)Pumpkin/black /smoke skirt.

Summer:

            brn/black mud bug crank,fat free shad,mag wart (crawfish.)

Fall:

     Same spinner bait,Black/blue flake tube.(1/4oz)

I'll say most of the big smallies I've caught have been in water below 55 deg on a jerk bait.

Deps Buzzjet

LC Gunfish 115

Huddbug

Senko 5"

Silverbuddy

Shakyhead

Forgot to add Matt lures

Tubes

Super Flukes

Hair Jigs

Fat Ika's

Spinnerbaits

Rapala #10 Husky Jerk

Zara Puppy

Senko

Day in and day out a tube in Green Pumpkin/Red Flake or Dark Mellon/Purple Flake, a 5" grub in Bluegill and Pearl white Super Flukes are hard to beat. Each day brings different circumstances but, after 17 years of guiding for smallies before I stopped these three were the money getters.

Traps

Drop-Shot

Tube

Chart/Chart/Chart Spinnerbait

Jigs

SMALLMOUTHS EAT THE SAME THING AS LARGEMOUTH RIGHT?

tubes

grubs

orignal rapala

rebel crawdad

pop-r

Thanks for all the replies.  

Craws, jigs and tubes

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grub

Yum Crawbug grey/orange (drop shotted)

Strike King Salty craws

White grub

X-Rap black/silver

Jerkbaits

Tubes

Grub

Craws

A-Jay

Tubes and wacky rigged worms.

senkos 4 inch green pumpkin

chartruse rocket shad

heddon torpedo or black jitterbug

I'm giving my new husky jerk in perch a shot tomorrow and I hope to add it to the list.

I have to go slightly to the left on this one.

I choose topwaters, not because they catch smallies the best, but because when a smallie hits a topwater you'll never forget it.

Absolutley amazing!!

X2!!!!!!

Yozuri Pins minnow

Rocket Shad

Denny Brauer Finesse Jig

White Senko

Rebel Craw

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