Favorite smallie bait ? 2024

castaway reply :

Just curious as to what your go to bait is ? My go to bait is a 5" Kalin grub on a 1/8 oz. leadhead. I primarily use 3 colors, Smoke, motor oil/ red flake and bluegill color. :)Ivan

Bladesmith, reply :

In our lake ( Cascade in Idaho ) 3 inch grubs on 1/8 oz jig heads,in watermelon and pumpkinseed , and shad raps in perch pattern,and occasionally a small spinnerbait in black and yellow are consistantly effective. The water here is generally clear to slightly green.

basser89 reply :

Tubes are my favorite in Roadkill, watermelon/chart tail and smoke/black flake. Rocket shad and Rattlin Rogues run a close second and third. These work the best for me on the two rivers I fish for smallies.

Steve_IA reply :

Favorite... home-tied weighted hair-fly

Most effective... 3" tube or 4" grub

mdangler reply :

rapala x rap and a bps magnum tube

roadwarrior reply :

#1 Big shiners on a split shot rig

#2 Lucky Craft Pointer 128 & 100

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

#4 GYCB Single Tail Hula Grub

#5 GYCB Grub

56 crestliner reply :

My favorite for rivers is a Rapala orignal floater in silver. Cast out near structure, let it sit until all the ripples around it are gone then twitch it a couple times.

wvubassfan reply :

pointers all sizes the bigger the bait the bigger the bass

x-raps

cabin creek tubes

Nick B reply :

Strike King bitsy tube in Green pumpkin

basspro48 reply :

1. LC Slender Pointer 112 in American Shad

2. Bandit 200 series in Rootbeer

3. Hand-tied hair jig in brown/orange and black/blue

4. Yo-Zuri suspending tiny pins minnow

5. 3' Strike King Bitsy tube in watermelon/green flake on a 1/16oz. jighead

CrazedL.IFisherman reply :

A discontinued bps brand lure named "rockin daddy" which is a soft plastic crawfish rigged weightless mostly or with a small bullet weight

burleytog reply :

3 or 4" Mr Twister in pumpkinseed or white on a 1/8 oz unpainted leadhead OR a Rebel Craw.

cbfishalot reply :

#1 Lucky Craft Slender Pointer

#2 LuckyCraft Staysee

#3 Crooked Creek Tube

#4 Eakins Jig

#5 GYCB Grub

CJ reply :

3 1/2" tube or a 1/2 oz. jig

Steve_IA reply :

This post points out (again) that smallmouth are not as particular about bait as we are!

Deuceu72 reply :

3 1/2 " Crooked Creek Tube........... ;D ;D ;D

squid reply :

4" GREENPUMPKIN TUBE WITH PURPLE AND GOLD FLEK IN IT FISHED WITH A 1/4oz TUBE JIG WITH 90o EYELET.

mjbfsh07 reply :

GYCB Hula Grub

Wacky Rigged Watermelon Senko

Rapala Jerk Bait

Drop Shot with a pumpkin French Fry

Lake Fork Ring Fry

MALTESE FALCON reply :

1-Large shiners

2-X-RAPS

3-Shad Raps

Falcon

zimmy reply :

WHEN THE SMALLMOUTH ARE AGGRESIVE ON THE RIVER MY FAVORITE IS A 3/8 OZ SPINNERBAIT. WHITE WITH CHARTRUSE. ZIMMY

CK14 reply :

1.) 1/8oz jig head w/grubs

2.) drop shot

3.) senko

4.) 3" tube

5.) jointed shadrap

Munkin reply :

1. Baby brush hog

2. Senko

3. White spinnerbait

4. Bandit crankbait

5. LC Pointer

Allen

Replica. reply :

For rivers

1. dark 7" power worm (cut down to 5 1/2 or 6 inches)

2. white 4" grub

3. brown 3" tube

4. small crank bait (silver/black original floater)

Zel... reply :

3" grub in smoke, pumpkinseed and watermelon in the spawn. 1/4 ounce gold Kastmaster jigging spoon year round.

lowe160 reply :

Mine is a 4" bps tube in purple gold fleck, second would be a 5" kalin's smoke copper grub.

Wayne

ksdog reply :

1/8th oz round jighead with 5" pumpkin grub

paparock reply :

I love topwaters when you can get them to hit them just because I love the visual, sound, and overall experience of any fish but especially a smallmouths agressiveness smacking the heck out of surface lures. As for numbers then I settle down to LC Pointers, white spinnerbaits if the conditions are right, hula grubs, and either a micro munch or eakins jig.

SwampMan reply :

In the river in the heat of summer my favorite bait is the Zara Puppy!! Nothing funner than top water smallies!

rocknfish9001 reply :

A 3 inch mann's stingray grub, smoke w/an 1/8th oz. jighead

Also a 3 inch brown tube on an 1/8th oz insider head

TopDog reply :

I would have to say a Mizmo 3.5 tube followe by a 4 inch wacky senko type.

Fishin Phil reply :

My favorite is a Raplal Skitter Walk in bluegill.

My go to is GYCB 5" cut tails in smoke, t-rigged.

Ky_Lake_Dude reply :

A sand colered twin tailed grub dragged through eddies at the Buffalo River.

vtbassin reply :

In the river a small 1/4 oz buzzbait in any color as long as it is white ;D

HOPTOAD reply :

j-7 or j-9 silver and black jointed Rapala

for rivers a zoom pumpkinseed lizard or jitterbug

Shadcranker reply :

Green pumpkin candy.

Bass_junky reply :

First, i use different baits depending on the size fish i am seeking. For avg smallies, i have had best success with tubes/hula grub, but for bigger sizes i prefer the following:

#1 Drop Shot

#2 Split shot rig with Lizard

#3 Hula

#4 Yums Crawbug

#5 Spnnier bait - modified hand tied hair

stratosdriver reply :

Original floating Rapala silver or blue for top water,, yum Green Pumpkin Vibratubes for bottom fishing ,wackey rigged senko for suspending fish

Madhouse27 reply :

I like the Jack's Worm from Case Plastics and a Zoom Tab Tail grub.

Supermat reply :

1) 6-8" swimbait

2) Brown/orange round rubber jig

3) Lucky Craft Staycee 90

4) Spook

5) Lucky Craft LV-500

mark44 reply :

Zara spook

bass_stud reply :

I like chompers!!! ;D

roadwarrior reply :

Welcome aboard!

My preferred artificial lures are jerkbaits, but I think grubs, Hula Grubs, Fat Ika and tubes are more productive.

sunfishkid reply :

My favorite smallie bait of all time has got to be the pig'n'jig. I tie my own jigs with deer hair. my favorite tiein color is black with a little chartuese on the bottom. I add a chunk of black pork, uncle josh 101a. The jig's overall weight is a 1/4 ounce. this jig is not that big I believe it doesn't take a big bait to catch big fish. This is a proven fact I saw a smallie caught out of the potomac that was 22 inches and 6lbs. I think that is enough proof to make me a believer.

NBR reply :

Ice out - Slider

Whirley Bee

Pre Spawn- Slider

Susp Jerk Xrap or Strike King

Tube

Grub

Crig lizard

Spawn - Tube

Grub

Hula Grub

Senko

Spinner Bait

Cranks

Post spawn through Summer-All the above with more time on crigs. Colors to suit farage in the lakes I'm fishing but always some crawdad colors.

norm2525 reply :

Lake

1. homemade eakins jig (brown & blue, brown)

2. wiggle warts

3. rogues & pointers

Creek & river

1. zoom fluke

2. hula grub

3. mad man craw tubes

4. deep tiny n's and little rebel crankbaits

slinging southpaw reply :

Favorite Bait;

Baby Torpedo with a Yum tube to follow if he misses.

bugman reply :

River: Live crawfish, Yum 2.5 crawdad

Lake Eire: Tubes and plastic goby on football jig

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