hi!

i've been fishing for largemouth for years, but i just learned that smallmouth are the big game around my area. i caught a good 2 pounder on a crankbait last year and now i wanna catch some more! i have a whole bunch of 4 inch tube baits from strike king (the coffee things). are those too big? i also use baby brush hawgs and things of that sort of size for LM. are those a good size?

Sure. For smallmouth it is more location. Just find them with some bait and you'll be set. Summer go deeper and find humps and try a drop shot or draggin' a tube. Also I have heard jigging spoons are great.

great! thanks for the help. luckily, in oregon, we primarily have small largemouths. so it sounds like i'm pretty much set for smallies anyways. i was thinking drop shotting some baby flukes or carolina rigging some baby brush hawgs, super hawgs, or coffee tubes.

great! thanks for the help. luckily, in oregon, we primarily have small largemouths. so it sounds like i'm pretty much set for smallies anyways. i was thinking drop shotting some baby flukes or carolina rigging some baby brush hawgs, super hawgs, or coffee tubes.

Cough, cough... green pumpkin... cough, cough

ill have to pick some of that color up on my next order from *** or BPS. my current fav for LMB is watermelon red flake. pretty much all of my plastics are that color lol. it's just hard to fish for LMB with soft plastics without knowing where the things are (no electronics.) in the past i've found it much easier to find them in a river much like you would trout. deep pool with rocks and a slow-medium current. i've done some homework lol.