Smallmouth Bass fishing Lures

[Hunter]

What are your favorite lures and bait?

[toto]

I like to use tube jigs and lead heads. Work very well in the spring time when the smallies are in shallow and trying to spawn. You could also use twister tails and lead heads, these work well also. Another good bet is something like a small hot-n-tot or a lipless crank bait, these all work well on aggresive fish,

[Steve]

I like to use a floating Rapala just after the sun goes down. Give a quick jerk, then let it sit for a second, then repeat.

[Seldom]

I split my time between the flyrod 1st & spinning rod 2nd.
With the flyrod I like to use deerhair bugs that have a collar and dive when worked. I also like a weighted, purple rabbit hair streamer
When using spinning tackle I use a "middle-age" lure that seems to have fallen out of favor with today's politically correct fishing fraternity and that's the old Beetlespin. I either use the split tail or twister type tails and usually 1/8-1/4 oz sizes. Purple or white depending on the water's stain.

[Steve]

I hear ya Seldom. I like some of the old floating wooden multi-segment plugs for bass.

[trout]

We use slip bobbers and crawlers.I'll be trying some flies this year though for sure.

[Steve]

I can't even imagine how much fun it would be to catch a big bass on a fly rod. Even bluegills that I've caught on mine, feel like a monster.

[Seldom]

I seem to catch fewer smallies with the flyrod then with spinning tackle but the fight of ANY size smallie on a flyrod is an itch you have to scratch! If you love to catch gills & crappie with a flyrod, you owe it to yourself to try it on bass!

[rivrat]

for smallies here on the detroit river I like using rattle traps and other diving crank baits also we use original rapalas early in the morning and late evenings. these baits are what we use in the summer months in about 8 to 12 foot of water. although the rapalas work well real early in the morning in shallower water.

[tsbill]

The top of the list is definately a tube. In weedy situations I deposit a 1/4 ounce to a 3/8 ounce bell sinker, eye to the top, in my tube, lubricated with some crayfish scent, and thread my tied offset gamagatsu hook through the eye of the bell sinker and skin the tube to be weedless. In nonweedy situations I use a leadhead. In both situations I drag my tube with a v-e-r-y slow retrieve.
My second choice is a tie between a Pop-R in the A.M., and a Clown Husky Jerk.

[Cobra]

With a fly rod on a river or creek, muddlers, minnow imitators, big nymphs and at times gaudy attractors. Hoppers, crickets and big black ants (#8) are great but smallies can get every bit as finicky as any trout and sometimes you have to match the hatch. Have seen them sip #16 caddis but what a blast after we figured it out. With spinning gear, tubes & grubs, rapalas and #2 Mepps Black Furys.