For numbers

4" stickbait

3"-4" tube

3" curly tail grub

For size

RI Sweet beaver T-rigged

Jig with a craw trailer

Tend to go with temp....dart-head jig with curly tail grub good starting point late 50's temp. Kicks w/ inline spinners after, least for me.

for quality I'll go with a chompers 4" dbl. tailed skirted craw in pumpkin or watermelon on a football jig. for quanity it's old school. 4" slider worm on 1/8th oz jig.

Hi new here to the board and I have to say it's really amazing how much I have learnned just from this thread. I do a lot of Smallmouth fishing in Ontario (NWO) where a lot of the lakes are clear,cold and deep with a lot of rocky structer. My personal best bait I use a Zoom OLE MONSTER HEAY SALT WORM in either anything with red flakes in it or a Watermelon color. I just hook them throuh the nose flip it out and let it sink and then reel in with a stop and go motion. It's hard to believe how a smallie will take a 10 1/2 inch bait in one gulp. These baits were bought to take down to use on Pickwick or Wilson lake in ALabama but trip got cancelled so I tried them in Canada and have been using ever since up there. Biggest smallie to date is 7.12lbs. In 40 days I'm headed back up there to fish the AYA and the SSS Tournaments.

4" tube

poorboys goby (jig, ds or c-rig)

best way to rig the rage tail baby craw? ...thanX.

4" single tail grub, hands down.

^^ This. In black, smoke, or green pumpkin.

Tom

3 or 4 inch curly tail grubs with a 1/4 or 3/8 ounce jig head, depending on current, in either black, yellow, or clear with black flake works for me. Also, for me personally, I seem to do better with chartreuse jigheads for whatever reason.

5" hula grub on a football jig if fishing rocks and the cray fish are active. If not a brown or brown/red crank bait. Thats about as simple as I can make it, however I always seem to over think it... I think most of us do when it comes to fishing. haha

Plastic worms in green pumpkin and junebug have been hitting hard at our lake this summer with the bass staying deeper in the water

Kinami 4" grub in chartreuse or green pumpkin on a revenge jig head. I have caught to over 7 on these.

Kinami swimsenko in white or green pumpkin

Keitech 4" swing impact in ayu or green pp.

Smallie beaver in dirty sanchez on a zipper football head. I fish these on Lake Michigan with great success.

Hands down...3.5" Sweet Beaver

Black w/ no flake 4 inch Yamamoto Senko weightless on 2/0 EWG Lazer Sharp Red Hook! Close second is Case Plastics 3 3/4 inch Sinkin Salty Minnow on GAM WG size 2 Finesse hook (nose hooked for that sweet action of course)! Also the Hellgramite from Case Plastics is like candy to smallies, early spring you can catch one every cast.

3 or 4 inch Berkley Crazy Leg Chigger Craw, Green Pumkin....Texas rigged.

Smallies tear these things up on the Colorado.

Wacky rigged senko numbers, baby brush hogs for size

Chompers 4" straight tail worm in green pumpkin. On a jig, drop shot or split shot rig.

weightless Zoom super fluke in bubblegum color and 5" Kalin grub in smoke,salt and pepper color on 1/4 oz. leadhead.

Keitech Fat 2.8 or 3" in Pro Blue red pearl or Shad colors color slayed em really good this past season here in NJ

First let me say I exclusively fish for size...that being said:

1. yamamoto double tail hula grub (brown grape blk flk) on a 1/4 oz strike king shakyhead football jighead

2. Strike King Tour Grade Finesse Jig (Watermelon with red flk) with uncle Josh #11 pork trailer (trailer depends on hatch color and water color

3. a distant third; Yamamoto 4" senko (outperforms the imitators by far--but very pricey if bite is hot)

4" grub or tube in green pumpkin varient.

a custom hand poured bait up here where i live called sniper lures. the sniper bolt in white or green and dropshotting. you should look them up at sniperlures.com.

I fish pretty swift current in the maumee river. I use small size rebel wee craws, with the hooks replaced lol. Rebel pop-r, 1/8oz sk buzzbait in black. Some local hand poured tubes with 1/16th up to 3/16oz shakey heads instead of the tube jigs and flukes.

4 and 6 inch grandebass rattlesnake worms in watermellon red flake, 3.75" lake fork magic shad,

Strike King baby rodent (3.5") green pumpkin with a 1/4 oz black bullet weight

Grubs, be they single, double or skirted. Green Pumpkin, white, watermelon ect.