My two favorite ways to catch them are hopping a football jig with a Hula grub, waiting for the tap-tap and getting the rod ripped out of your hands burning a spinnerbait. Nothing can beat that feeling.

Hard to name a favorite,although top water hit is hard to beat.Just love catchin' smallies!

My favorite has got to be big jigs in deep water. There's just something I love about feeling that brownie smack a jig and run like mad. Second is jerkbaits.

Spoons.

I like throwing a crankbait over a deep rock pile and feeling that head shake

spinner baits are awesome to

then probably a wacky senko as it just down right catches em

To me they seem to hit a lot of everything. One thing I have noticed over the years though is that when using a crankbait or spinnerbait, they seem to love chartreuse. My white and shartreuse spinnerbait always gets nailed on the Susquehanna, along with my little square bill shartreuse and brown crankbait.

Getting a lipless crank smashed while you're burning it is my favorite. But getting your wrist nearly broken while fishing soft plastics is pretty fun too.

For me, it's crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Last season I started using t-rigged Senkos with great success.

Falcon

Probably fly-lining a live crawler, on micro-light gear.....

Although I've caught most of my biggest ones sight fishing with soft plastics.

Fish

Jerkbaits prespawn on lake erie. Doesn't get any sweeter than that for me.

There is nothing better in fishing than this (though, having a 45+ inch Muskie following a lure to the boat is a close second)

Well, what technique I use, doesn't really make that much difference to me, as long as I'm sticking some good ones

But I guess if I had to pick, I'd say, live lining crawlers. Mainly because they lend themselves so well to micro-light gear.... and nothing is more fun than a BIG Smallie, on ML gear

Peace,

Fish

It's funny seeing so many guys post the same things, and I have to agree...one of my favorites is the plain ole white spinnerbait.

However, I am surprised that noone has mentioned this yet: my absolute fave is with a swimbait...usually, there is no "slurping" involved: they will literally try to take the rod out of your hands! I like to throw the 6" Hudd or a 4" Mattlures Baby Bass.

Jerkbaits are great; deep cranks are super fun...but nothing beats that shallow bite on a swimbait!

Cranking a Deep Little N in %*@$!*% color. It's all fun, even light carolina rigged plastics.

I just started fishing for Smallmouth alot more this year actually. I've been getting alot more bass in from Mepps #3 and #4 inline spinners. Plus, the Fluke has been doing good and so has some live bait.

Jerk baits in erie.

It's funny seeing so many guys post the same things,

No osborn, it's typical

But how many did you see who said > live lining a crawler ?

If you fish like everyone else, you will catch the kind of fish, that everyone else catches. If that's good enough for you, then by all means.

Personally speaking, I've had my best successes, doing what everyone else is not......

Peace,

Fish

No osborn, it's typical

But how many did you see who said > live lining a crawler ?

If you fish like everyone else, you will catch the kind of fish, that everyone else catches. If that's good enough for you, then by all means.

Personally speaking, I've had my best successes, doing what everyone else is not......

Peace,

Fish

Amen

Jigs with craw trailer....best big smallie bait, and shallow and square bill cranks for numbers. Hard to not throw a topwater, though!!!

Either crankbaits (be they lipless or diving) or finesse plastics (grubs, tubes, senkos).

In order:

1) Jerkbait

2) 5" Yamamoto Grub

3) Texas rig lizard over rocky bottom

I use small bass poppers with my fly rod in a local stream. Also like using anything that is chartreuse in color.

I love going after smallies with top water gear - poppers/prop baits/walk the dog baits

Small river fishing bucktails can be a blast too.