What's your #1 hardbait for smallies? 2024
Wind Knot reply :
Mine is easily a squarebill. I get pretty good luck with both the KVD 1.0 and the Rapala Crankin' Rap 3 but I throw the KVD more often so it takes first place.
"DB Craw" works pretty well for me in semi-clear to muddy water.
Gundog reply :
Cotton Cordell Big O in natural crawdad. I fish a lot of muddy, high water and where I fish is rocky so this really works.
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everythingthatswims reply :
Super Spook Jr or a Pointer 78
Bluebasser86 reply :
Lucky Craft Slender Pointer 97MR, Super Spook JR, or a KVD 1.0.
cgolf reply :
I will preface this by saying this is for river fish which rules out a lot of baits.
Bandit 100 has been my top producer over the years. The SK 1.0 along with the mini 3 and the newer SK shallow SB have done well for me too. The larger SK square bills really have disappointed me though, the smallies just don't like them or I am fishing the wrong. Others that do ok, scatter rap crank and the smallest size of the old Luhr Jenson Brush baby, I got a ton of them for like a buck a pop a long time ago.
Cmiller reply :
Scatter rap deep in any of the craw colors has been an awesome producer for me. It seems to be a great all species bait too, have caught saugers, walleye, pike and musky on them.
J Francho reply :
Luck Craft Pointer SP 100
scaleface reply :
A popper that I dont know the brand . It wasnt very well made as the rear hook hanger eventually pulled out ,but it sure caught a lot of fish .
GORDO reply :
My fav hardbait for smallies... XD3 of the DT10. Either one plain out catches fish!
@scaleface youre probably thinking Rebel, their hook are literally the worst!
scaleface reply :
On 8/29/2016 at 10:52 PM, GORDO said:My fav hardbait for smallies... XD3 of the DT10. Either one plain out catches fish!
@scaleface youre probably thinking Rebel, their hook are literally the worst!
Its not a Rebel . I still have the lure and fish it with a dressed belly hook only .
WRB reply :
Norman Little N #21TSBO, LC 78 Pointer Minnow Ghost Threadfin Shad & Nishiki (clown).
Tom
Montanaro reply :
1/4oz revenge spinnerbait
Duo realis 110 jerkbait
YoTone reply :
the only hard bait that worked for me last week when i was lake fishing for smallies was the black 130 plopper
Columbia Craw reply :
Normans DLN. You guess the color.
PourMyOwn reply :
Wiggle wart or Mud Bug
bowhunter63 reply :
KVD Square bill.1.5
Torn Thumb reply :
Xcalibur Xcs100 silent in one of the craw colors. I don't remember which one. Got my PB smallie with it last spring.
"hamma" reply :
I have a few, so to pick the number 1 is difficult. So, Ill pick the latest to the list. Rapala's X-Rap 10 in the olive green color
papajoe222 reply :
Summer time? Chart/white Stanley VibraMax double willow.
crypt reply :
bomber long a size 14a, any color will do as long as it's got an orange belly…….lol
timsford reply :
Storm original wiggle wart in any of the craw colors. I honestly seem to catch just as many on the new ones as I did on the pre rapala ones everybody goes crazy for. I rarely fish the pre rap ones except the ones I've already used a lot that are all scraped up from grinding rocks and catching fish. I save those for tournament days
DogBone_384 reply :
A #5 jointed Rapala Shad Rap flavored in Smallmouth. I do very well with it at Great Herring, Plymouth, MA.
Hogsticker reply :
I've caught more smallmouth on a half ounce perch pattern Spro Aruku Shad than any other hard bait.
webertime reply :
Bone Super Spook
Pointer 100
Slender Pointer 97
Siebert Outdoors reply :
pointer 100 or 78DD American Shad
ol'crickety reply :
I've caught thousands on a Rapala F13 in orange. I know that might seem too big a bait for smallmouth, but I like the casting distance. However, I've also lost scores of the F13s to pike.
Dreadhead47 reply :
The only smallies I've caught on hard baits, were caught with a megabass 110 jr.
IamNewbie reply :
Easily Squarebills.
Frenchman83 reply :
Rapala DT6 in Demon.
Preytorien reply :
I fish a lot of small shallow rivers/streams. My go to this early fall has been the Duo Realis 48SR
Crestliner2008 reply :
Series 10 X-Rap in Hot Head pattern.
mrmacwvu1 reply :
LC Pointer
Molay1292 reply :
LC RC 1.5, Super Spook Jr., and jerkbaits, I use a lot of different baits but the SPRO McStick 110 has produced more fish for me lately.
Mosster47 reply :
6th Sense lipless in Wild Lava Craw.
TyF reply :
Summer: Lucky Craft Sammy 100 in American shad
Winter: Lucky Craft Pointer 78 in chart shad
Spankey reply :
Rapalas, Bandits and Bombers. 1, 2 and 3.
PatrickKnight reply :
I only chase them in rivers but mine has to be a craw colored Shad Rap.
ibobpeb reply :
Whopper Plopper 90 and a good old shallow diving squarebill.
A-Jay reply :
For The 8-12 ft zone the Spro "Mike McClelland" RkCrawler 55 Crankbait has been very good -
Hammered a mess of smallies with one today ~ love the Phantom Brown & the Red Crawfish colors
A-Jay
TnRiver46 reply :
Bomber long A
roadwarrior reply :
Sworming Hornet/ LFT Live Magic Shad
Drowning A Worm reply :
Cheap 75 cent popper from Walmart. I believe it's made by crème lures. Change out the hooks and it works just as well as the 6 dollar tiny popper by Rebel
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