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Finesse tubes on light wire tube jigs.

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  • Numbers? Or Size?  It really boils down to time of year and location.  I'll go with Roboworm 4" in Aaron's Magic, on a drop shot rig for consistent deep smallie action.

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OK, Sfritr and Francho, I'm not finding any 4" Roboworms anywhere. Where do you get yours?

Tackle Warehouse, Bass Pro, Cabelas 

I was just at BPS today and they had more stocked that I have ever seen in the past

Let me preface by saying I do most of my smallie fishing in a secluded tributary creek where a 14" smallie is big and bottom-bumping lures get broken off about every 5th cast in a massive maze of rocks.  That said:

for numbers: 3" senko in watermelon or black

for size:  4" Yum Dinger in green pumpkin/red

biggest I ever hooked: Zoom tube in the Natural Shell color

4.8 jackall flick worm with a drop shot technique kills them in keuka lake at about 30-50 feet bluff point

Soft jerbaits: 3 Bass Assassin, 4 Finesse Fish, 4 Sluggo

Spring: Slider 1.5" Crappie/Pan Fish Grub; Tubes: 3 Screwtail Minnow (don't know what they're called after all these years or even if they're still made, but I got plenty).

Summer: 4 Berkley Finesse Worm Hand Pour.

Fall: G.Y. Fat Ika.

Zoom Super Speed Craw in Watermelon Red, Carolina rigged Senko in various colors

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Tube

Brush Hog

Fluke

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1- Tube - 3.5 coffee tubes (3/8 tube head)

2- Jackall crostail or pintail (Dropshot)

3- Fat Ika (rigged backwards)

4- Senko (yamamoto senko. the real deal only. NO wanna be's)

I river fish for smallmouth mostly...

Zoom Fluke-Pearl or Glimmer Blue

Zoom Fat Albert-Green Pumkin or Green with red flake

Chompers Hula Grub-Same as above

V&M Pork Pin with a brass weight

3" Gitzit tubes, they are hard to find now but a big bag of them will last quite some time

Rage Tail Baby Craw

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Yes, but have they worked for you?  LOL!!!  I gotta go smallmouth fishing with you!

I hate to be "that guy" but I have to say it... Senko's have been my best producer.  Probably worth mentioning that I fish rivers, not lakes.

I suppose it may be a confidence thing for me now, but I found the 4" and 5" Senko's (usually the BPS brand, actually) in watermelon or pumpkin to be good producers for me when other things aren't working.  They seem to be perfectly weighted to get down and bounce along in the riffles, but work equally well in the deeper pools.  Texas rigged, sometimes with a TINY hook weight on the front of the hook.  Also fish them wacky sometimes, but they get hung up a bit more, and I haven't found the hook-up ratio to be any better for me.

Oh, I almost forgot... the Baby Brush Hog is also deadly.  Probably tied with the Senko in my book for producing when everything else in my tackle box seems to be falling flat.

I like a grub in the spring and a Yum Wooly Bug in the late spring though summer. :D

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Nice thread. Going to be going down the river on my kayak tomorrow targeting smallies and I was thinking I was about to have to hit up dicks sporting goods after work to pick up some new lures for smallmouths, turns out I have most the things you guys catch them on. Might have to make a trip anyways, no such thing as over prepared.  ;D

Yum Dinger, Bitsy Tubes, and Super Fluke JR.

When it comes to smallies and plastics, I've found that if it is "small", "wiggly", and "green pumpkin" in color, it will catch plenty of smallies anywhere.  :)

I catch a lot on a Zoom Horny Toad and a 1/8oz Roadrunner with a 3" Grub.

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Zoom superflukes and yum crawbugs, rage tail craws.  Smallies aren't exactly picking a lot of times. 

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Tube, grub, and jig, in that order.

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4" single tail grub, hands down.

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