im heading to my grandparents house monday to go conoeing in the hocking river (in southeastern ohio) its supposed to be one of the better smallmouth waters in ohio....but im not very familiar with smallmouth so what should i throw and where

thanks in advance oya the river is fairly shallow and not very wide its sorta creekish ha

Look through a few pages in this section of the Forum.

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your tackle question.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1214933874

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1/8 oz buzz baits white

straight tail roboworms in chart/pepper i think and use a 1/16oz weight hook. almost garunteed

throw rebel craws in the deeper parts

I've also been throwing beatle spins (1/4oz) with a three inch white powergrub on it. been working well for me.

good luck!

For float trips I am a huge fan of the mini fat raps (crawdad) and the 2" jointed rapalas (gold or silver color).

When I fished those OH streams I had the best luck on the fat raps.  But those are both versitile baits that were made for floating and fishing.

I sometimes slow it down with a 1/16 oz jig head and black grub.

thanks for the help everyone...

Zoom fat alberts--Green Pumkin-cotton candy-pumkinseed

    rigged either texas with 1/16 ounce weight and 2/0 hook

    carolina if theres weeds

    or a 1/8 ounce jighead

4 inch lizards--green pumkin-pumkin seed/chartreuse tail-

watermelon red flake

  You can rig these the same as the fat alberts

1/8 or 1/4 ounce spinnerbaits-- white--shad--chartruese--baby bass

    I find gold blades work better for smallies, thats the way it is here

Good luck! Let us know how ya do, I know theres some huge smallies in large creeks also!

                                                                            Ian

sorry i am late

there is an old mill near nelsonville that has a deep hole there

throw anything and everything

tubes grubs pointers x-raps blaze minnows flukes senkos all will work

next time down this way pm me and i can help you out