Strike King Coffee tubes or a 4" Senko, do a lot of damage with both.

In no particualr order:

NetBait Tiny Paca Craws

4" Yamamoto Senkos

Kinami Double Tail Hua grubs

BPS Tubes

Colors I prefer would be green pumpkin, smoke, watermelon/red flake and black

Ned rig 

Rage Tail Menace

 

Tubes, flukes, grubs and stick baits all have a place and time.  I always have a tube tied on because it's a 12 month bait. Flukes can be deadly in spring around emerging grass and fallen trees.  Grubs can be fan cast and covers a lot of water to find feeding fish.  Sticks are good around all kinds of cover, but skipping them under docks can be fire. 

 

Never forget the Ned rig either

I don't know if I could pick a "best". Most of my smallmouth fishing is in a river. I use tubes, flukes, yum dingers, rage structure bugs, sweet beavers, grubs, hula grubs and zman/ned rig.

 

Most of them I use in more than one application and I've had good results with all.

My PB Smallie was on a TRD Craw from Zman, but I usually get the most numbers from Berkley Chigger Craws either on a football head or on a Split Shot rig.

4” Senko, rage menace, 2.5 inch power tube, and a strike king dream shot

1. Small tube

2. small tube

3. Finesse worm 

On 5/13/2012 at 2:38 PM, RevoSEMIpro said:

Strike King Coffee tubes or a 4" Senko, do a lot of damage with both.

Best color tube?  If you had to pick one.

21 minutes ago, MickD said:

Best color tube?  If you had to pick one.

Provider Tackle Performance Series Bite Size - BBQ Melon 3.5 inch

 

A-Jay

 

 

Gitzit "Baby Diaper" yellow.

 

2 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Gitzit "Baby Diaper" yellow.

 

God that’s a great name for a color

6 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Provider Tackle Performance Series Bite Size - BBQ Melon 3.5 inch

 

A-Jay

 

 

That color works very well on Sag Bay and St Clair.  But there is one in the coffee tube line that's even better.  From my experience.

Last couple of years 3.5” Swim Senko in Goby has been killer for me usually on a 1/8 to 3/16 jig head.

3.8" Keitech on a flashy swimmer or a 3.5" SK Coffee Tube

I love coffee tubes

I've got more 2.75" tubes than 3.5" lately. I also use Keitech easy shiner swimbaits. They have a more minnow like shape than the swing impacts and I like the colors that can be a little more translucent without the ribs of the swing impacts. The easy shiner perch color is as close to a real perch as I think I can get.

Last smallie trip it was a TRD and a Rage Bug.

 

Kalin 5.0" Lunker Grub - smoke hologram

Strike King 3½” Coffee Tube - green pumpkin

 

Roger

On 4/4/2020 at 9:02 AM, roadwarrior said:

Rage Tail Menace

 

 

There's something about that girl I like  

 

Roger

Love green pumpkin and copper

Another favorite is Smoke Silver-Black and Gold

 

In the two lakes I get to fish with a population of smallmouth, the best producers have been the 3" Gitzit Chub Tube in brown craw S&P and the 2.75" Dry Creek Drop Shot tube in baby bass. However, my biggest smallmouth have pretty much all been on a deep driving crankbait when I wasn't targeting them.

 

Zoom Fluke in pearl 

On 4/4/2020 at 3:51 AM, Dan C said:

Ned rig 

I find it strange that it took to page four to mention the Ned.