your best producing small mouth bait in deep water 2025

xxroosterxx reply :

i fish a jig mainly and gulp 7 inch worms. But what is producing for you guys.

Sil240sxrwd reply :

3 inch senko type bait.. dropshotted. Wacky and Nosehooked.

Chris W reply :

1oz spinnerbait slow rolled, 3/8 oz hair jig with a swimming chunk trailer

S Hovanec reply :

Gulp Nightcrawler

Jackall Cross Tail Shad

Gulp Goby (Erie/Lake O only)

hawgwalker reply :

6" or 8" zoom lizard usually watermelon

Crestliner2008 reply :

#1. Roboworm, 4" Aron's Magic, nose hooked on a drop shot.

#2. Senko, 3" pumpkin w/green flake, wacky rigged on a drop shot.

#3. Senko, 5" watermelon w/black flake, wacky rigged on a straight line.

CWeb Canada reply :

I like drop shotting with Gulp in Watermelon Pearl or Emerald shiner.

Rig a Chigger Craw in a Pumpkin or Motor Oil type colour just as though you were flipping it but drag it (don't jig it, just inch it along the bottom) as painfully slow as possible along the bottom. Any weight you feel.....set the hook and get'er done!!!

Hope this helps.

CWeb

SimonDM17 reply :

Had some luck recently with a 4" Yum craw papi on a 1/8 oz jighead with a 1/0 ewg hook, very lightly texposed.

Although I would have gone with a 3/16oz if i'd had one with me.

worked with the chigger craws too, i just liked the smaller profile/faster action of the craw papi.

stratosjoe reply :

Old School

1 Silver buddy

2 1/8 oz -1/4 oz Black with some brown Hairjig preferably bear hair with a black Uncle Josh u2 with 6 lb test

3 silver Buddy I know i listed it twice I luvem :

Kamiahkid reply :

Smallie Sweet Beaver on 1/4 oz Jighead

NBR reply :

Silver Buddy

jig grub

hair or rubber jig & pig

JDK. reply :

big crankbait in bright color

football jig with yamamotto flappin hog as trailer

iceintheveins reply :

Any skirted double tail grub on a jighead of at least 3/8 of an ounce. It's the ticket for smallies on deep rock reefs.

simplejoe reply :

I've been catching them on tubes, EVO jigs and Here's one for you guys to try in your neck of the woods, I rig on a Rapala X-Rap then about 12-15 inches in from the lure put a splitshot on it so it will go down to the bottom. The weight will ride the bottom while the X-Rap is a foot or so off the bottom. Smallies can't stand it and they gotta bite.

joe

CWeb Canada reply :

simplejoe, thanks for the post. It sounds like a drop shot for jerk baits. I like the idea and will have to give it a try!

CWeb

simplejoe reply :

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simplejoe, thanks for the post. It sounds like a drop shot for jerk baits. I like the idea and will have to give it a try!
CWeb

No Problem, That little trick came from me being bored on the boat without any success from anything I was throwing, so I decided to try that and was catching smallies a short time after.

Volman482 reply :

Silver buddy, buddy!!!!!

1/8-1/4 brown hair jig with 101 brown pork trailer.

1/4-3/8 oz creepy crawler.

J Francho reply :

This will sound nuts....Sammy. Seriously, I get more smallmouth bites working topwater over very deep water (45-70'). Action can be incredible.

But if we're talking deep running lures, tubes, drop shot finesse plastics, jig, shorty spoons all produce well too.

junebugmn reply :

I like to use a 3/16 bullet weight a 6inch chomper's finesse worm or any scented worm of choice and a size 1 tru-turn worm hook,and just drag it on bottom with 6lb p-line flouroline. junebugmn

Smallmouth Bass49 reply :

deep swimming bomber or Berkley Powerbait purple ribbed worm

A-Rob reply :

I had some luck with using a c-rig, with a Yum craw papi texas rigged on the end of it.

Deep crankbait as well. I think I was mainly using a Strike King 4 or 5 crank. I was using sexy shad, but I think for the smallies I will do better with more chartreuse, so I got some new ones.

A-Rob reply :

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I've been catching them on tubes, EVO jigs and Here's one for you guys to try in your neck of the woods, I rig on a Rapala X-Rap then about 12-15 inches in from the lure put a splitshot on it so it will go down to the bottom. The weight will ride the bottom while the X-Rap is a foot or so off the bottom. Smallies can't stand it and they gotta bite.
joe

Coincidently, I have tried that as well! I don't know what made me think it, but I did it with a smaller x-rap. Surprisingly, I dropped it down around 15' and pulled up 3 beauty Walleye on 3 casts!! Nuts, it works great.

CWeb Canada reply :

Angling Adam,

What size of split-shot were you using and what was your presentation?

Cheers,

CWeb

spinnerbaitking reply :

My father like a carolina rig with a 3' lead & a floating Rapala

Sbking

riverfisher reply :

Tube and series 5&6 strike king sexy shad

TimJ reply :

tube or a dropshot goby

simplejoe reply :

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Angling Adam,
What size of split-shot were you using and what was your presentation?

Cheers,

CWeb

I used these, mainly 3/8 it has a slow fall rate . I've been experimenting with 3/4 too.

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Pitchinkid reply :

3 in Gitzit tube - 3/8 jighead Grn Pmk

Bucktail Jig - 3/8 - 1/2 oz White

ProCrafter reply :

Robo Worm 4-1/2" Ayu and Arrons Magic

And last year a 3/0 Gami weighted wacky rigged 5" Senko

Blade-Runner reply :

Spoon

jrobi007 reply :

5/16 Eakins Jig with a Eakins craw.

A-Rob reply :

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Angling Adam,
What size of split-shot were you using and what was your presentation?

Cheers,

CWeb

My memory is bit hazy as it was a while ago, but I had a smaller xrap, the size 8 I believe, in a realistic minnow color. Had a maximum of 1/4oz in splitshots on the line, but most likely it was less, like 3/16 or something.

So with that light weight I just casted it out, let the sinker take the lure down, and its doing its xrap thing as the weight is creating some speed for it. Got to the bottom and I just started reeling it at a medium pace, never snapped it or anything extra. I don't think the weight was dragging on the bottom, but it was just enough to keep the lure down around 12-15 feet.

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