Favorite Baits For Smallmouth 2024

huskybass reply :

If I was limited to 7 baits to get me through a whole year of smallmouth fishing, these would be my picks:

Suspending Jerkbait

Super Fluke

Stalker 3.25" tube

Spinnerbait

Spider Grub

Storm Wiggle Wart

Sammy 100 or 115

What are your favorites?

Thanks in advance.

smallieking reply :

zoom super fluke

zoom ultravibe speed craw

yum crawbug

zoom tube

powerbait 4inch powerworm

heddon tiny topwater torpedo

brgbassmaster reply :

not in any order..all my smallmouth fishing is in rivers also.

strikeking 1/8th ounce buzzbait

zell pop in shad or chartreuse color

shallow crayfish colored crankbait

white terminator T1 spinnerbait

watermelon double tail hula grub

yum houdini worm watermelon

rapala xrap

caught many 3-5lb smallies out of one river on these baits love them.

Bassnbrett101 reply :

lucky craft jerkbaits

green pumpkin tube

white spinnerbait

red lipless crankbait

and thats all you really need

IDbasser reply :

Storm thundercraw phantom chart

bandit series 100 pearl red eye

bandit series 100 chart/black back

zoom finesse worms

I can catch fish with these all year, although looking at my boxes you wouldn't know it

iceintheveins reply :

Rebel Wee Crawfish

Bass Pro Shops XPS Rattlin' Shad

Berkley Power Grub, 3" Brown Pumpkin

Panther Martin Spinner, size 9

Rapala Skitterpop

Cavitron Buzzbait

Pepper Hawg Spinnerbait 3/8 ounce White Skirt, Gold and Silver Tandem Blades

Was hard to leave out tube jigs and some others though.

garry77 reply :

tube

rebel teeny wee crawdad

chartreuse spinnebait

Zoom fin-s fish

grub on 1/4 oz. round jig head(bluegill,white,pumpkinseed colors)

black or olive wooly bugger(flyrod)

fishizzle reply :

jerkbaits

senkos

All year

jrhennecke reply :

Yum Dingers

Chartruse Spinnerbaits

thetr20one reply :

Lucky Craft pointer

Chartruese or white spinnerbait

White cranks

Tubes

C/R senkos

grimlin reply :

Tube baits

beaver baits

berkley sabertail on a 3/8 oz Gman's weedless jig

All in green pumpkin color.It's hard to beat a tube bait here for smallmouths.

Tokyo Tony reply :

#1 for me - suspending jerkbait.

There's nothing like jerkin' it along super-fast, feeling an aggressive, line-stopping strike, then watching a p'd off smallie go airborn ;D

MALTESE FALCON reply :

In no particular order:

Spinnerbait

Rattlin Rapalas

X-Raps

Shad Raps

I bought alot of baits this off-season, maybe I'll have some new baits to add to my list.

Falcon

TournyFish001 reply :

tube

wiggle wart

If I only had those two baits I'd be content, although a lipless crank bait is up there as well.

Scott C reply :

what color wiggles do you like? I have a ton of them, and my buddy buys and resells storm as well....gonna hit up the smallies this weekend after i have had my fill of stripers. (i promise, no wood plank for me!)

TournyFish001 reply :

any craw pattern-

BASS fisherman reply :

I have to go slightly to the left on this one.

I choose topwaters, not because they catch smallies the best, but because when a smallie hits a topwater you'll never forget it.

Absolutley amazing!!

Munkin reply :

LC jerkbait

Spinnerbait

Gunnish

Baby brush hog

Senko

Zoom finesse worm

Eakins jig

Crayfish colored crank

Allen

CRSMALLJAW15 reply :

strike king red eye shad bleeding chrome blue

strike king rocket shad chartruese skirt

strike king coffee tube wartermelon red flake with jig head

zoom brush hog watermelon red c/rig

zoom shakey head worm on spot remover

gycb Kreature watermolon red green flake c/rig

Bossdog reply :

Grub

Fluke

Drop-shot

Tube

Jig

Spoon

Silver Buddy

roadwarrior reply :

#1 Mizmo 3 1/2" tube (Kent's Classic, squash green)

#2 GYCB 5" Grub

#3 Fat Ika

#4 GYCB Hula Grub (single tail)

#5 Lucky Craft Pointer 100

#6 Other jerkbaits: Rapala Husky Jerk (blue & silver); X-Rap (white)

#7 Zara Spook or LC Sammy

8-)

alarcher reply :

Crank baits

Drop shots

Husky Jerks

3.5 Tubes

Football head jigs

Robo worms, robo worms, robo worms! especially Aarons Magic

Madhouse27 reply :

1) Case Plastics Jack's Worm

2) Zoom Fat Albert Grub on an 1/8oz head w/ 3/0 Gammy hook

3) Strike King Bleeding Bait tube

4) Booyah Pro Finesse Boo Bug jig w/ Netbait Tiny Paca Chunk

5) Senko wacky

6) Zoom Superfluke

7) Spinnerbait chart/w chart blades

Bassin4Life55 reply :

IF their hitting it, a PopR is awesome, The smallies can come out of the water with such gusto, you see some impressive strikes.

skeeterman24 reply :

In rivers:

spitt'n image

senko

Baby paca craw

spinnerbait

In lakes (deeper water):

Spider Grub

Carolina rig lizard

tube

fishinsteve reply :

jrhennecke has it right!! YUM Dingers Carolina Pumpkin / Chartreuse

White or Chartreuse Spinnerbait

I also like to toss out a 4" Silver Xrap.

And for the odd wicked strike a 4.5" Zara Spook Pearl/Red Eye

WTRDOG reply :

Spring: Water temp 40's to low 50's

Rapapla X-rap or Rogue. ( purle ghost/purple gold)(Silver black back)

Water temp: 55 to 70's

1/2 oz Home made Single blade colorado (4.5 or 5 gold blade)Pumpkin/black /smoke skirt.

Summer:

brn/black mud bug crank,fat free shad,mag wart (crawfish.)

Fall:

Same spinner bait,Black/blue flake tube.(1/4oz)

I'll say most of the big smallies I've caught have been in water below 55 deg on a jerk bait.

HOIST-N-HAWGS reply :

Deps Buzzjet

LC Gunfish 115

Huddbug

Senko 5"

Silverbuddy

Shakyhead

Forgot to add Matt lures

justfishin reply :

Tubes

Super Flukes

Hair Jigs

Fat Ika's

Spinnerbaits

Rapala #10 Husky Jerk

Zara Puppy

Senko

Day in and day out a tube in Green Pumpkin/Red Flake or Dark Mellon/Purple Flake, a 5" grub in Bluegill and Pearl white Super Flukes are hard to beat. Each day brings different circumstances but, after 17 years of guiding for smallies before I stopped these three were the money getters.

Tin reply :

Traps

Drop-Shot

Tube

Chart/Chart/Chart Spinnerbait

Jigs

Daiwa reply :

SMALLMOUTHS EAT THE SAME THING AS LARGEMOUTH RIGHT?

Wildbillb reply :

tubes

grubs

orignal rapala

rebel crawdad

pop-r

huskybass reply :

Thanks for all the replies.

Big-O reply :

Craws, jigs and tubes

www.ragetail.com

dgquail reply :

grub

X-Rap reply :

Yum Crawbug grey/orange (drop shotted)

Strike King Salty craws

White grub

X-Rap black/silver

A-Jay reply :

Jerkbaits

Tubes

Grub

Craws

A-Jay

SenkoBasser reply :

Tubes and wacky rigged worms.

jaystraw reply :

senkos 4 inch green pumpkin

chartruse rocket shad

heddon torpedo or black jitterbug

I'm giving my new husky jerk in perch a shot tomorrow and I hope to add it to the list.

HOIST-N-HAWGS reply :

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I have to go slightly to the left on this one.
I choose topwaters, not because they catch smallies the best, but because when a smallie hits a topwater you'll never forget it.

Absolutley amazing!!

X2!!!!!!

brushcutter reply :

Yozuri Pins minnow

Rocket Shad

Denny Brauer Finesse Jig

White Senko

Rebel Craw

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