Smallie baits!

[Turbodog]

what are some of your go2 smallie baits?

River or lake i start with a tube and stay natural with the color!

[BassNut33]

For me it is a Chigger Craw!

[mainbutter]

In Canada, it's senkos 90% of the time. Tubes used to be my go-to until my last Canada trip where senkos outfished my tube-ing partner 3-1 for the whole trip.

Any soft plastic or craw imitator is a great way to start IMO.

Sometimes I go topwater, not as a numbers catcher, but just for the fun of it.

Small inline spinners and spinnerbaits are supposed to be great for 'em, but the one time I gave it a shot, they'd follow without striking. Plastics let me slow down and pause a retrieve to trigger the bite.

[Cecil]

I dont know that I have a fav.

Love

Tubes

Grubs

Big chart and white spinnerbaits

Jerkbaits/topwater

Finesse worm

Started using finesse jigs last year with good results

[swampbuck]

Northland Bugaboo hair jig, Probably shouldnt say anything about it, but if there are smallies they will eat the hair! It works no matter where they live. Case in point look at what Gussy, Salvador, and the othe canucks have done at the strugeon bay open.

it takes some getting used to to throw the hair and keep at it, but when you start consistently catching big smallies on it you get confidence pretty quick!

[Superduty]

NO! You definitely shouldn't say anything about it...

[Cecil]

Bought about 50 of them this winter I'll see if they work up at Ifalls. John you guys fishing that this year?

[Turbodog]

Hair jig it is brown in color?

[Cecil]

Many different colors

[goblueM]

for me (mostly rivers) I like fat crankbaits (DT-4, fat raps, etc) in a variety of colors, tubes, senkos, and just about any lure that is chartreuse and can fit in a smallie's mouth

[swampbuck]

Brent I think I will be back this year miss fishing that event

sorry to letthe hair out of the bag

[Cecil]

We should talk. RT and I are doing it again too. Are you guys staying out at Chads place?

[Lakeside_Nelson]

Marabou Jigs all the way! but other than that Tubes, and any medium sized rap.

[Larson15]

Beavers

[prov1900]

Sebile Magic Swimmers, perch color. BfishN Tackle jigworms, Gopher Tackle jig heads.

[MN BassFisher]

Last year I enjoyed the Rebel Crawfish crank. It seemed to bounce off rocks and logs and stuff. While everyone else' cranks were getting snagged, mine was bouncing off. And catching smallies!

[TonkaBass]

I would have to say if I only had one it might hae to be the tube... but I don't have just one so, jerkbaits, poppers and walkers, spinnerbaits, little bugs on shakeyheads, drop shots, hairjigs, downsized crankbaits and flukes rigged in all different configs! Did I miss anything? Oh yeah, senkos duh

[TonkaBass]

Hahaha and grubs...

[Turbodog]

Pretty basic tube's/jig's/rap's

My two biggest smallie have come off a tube "StRikeKIng" and slip bobber with a leech!

[RK]

Hiya -

Day in and day out - tubes, 3-5" grubs, jerk shad/fluke type baits and football heads, plus drop-shotting.

Mix in everything from jerkbaits and crankbaits to spoons and buzzbaits depending on the circumstances...

[Juan Grande]

I tried some black hair jigs last year on both Mille Lacs and the river and didn't catch a fish. Do you guys use more natural colors to try to mimic mayflies and other bugs? Just bounce them along the bottom or do you jig more agressively?

[Stick in Mud]

Has no one said Super Fluke yet?!?

[Lakeside_Nelson]

Juan--

I like the crayfish imitating colors, or white/black to mimic minnows patterns. As for the jigging, I like to either hop bottom or swim them just off bottom. It all depends on forage type and how aggressive the fish are.

[bobbymalone]

Last year I enjoyed the Rebel Crawfish crank. It seemed to bounce off rocks and logs and stuff. While everyone else' cranks were getting snagged, mine was bouncing off. And catching smallies!

the missus was destroying smallies on a rebel crawfish in the BW last summer

[bemidjibasser]

spider grubs on a weedless roundhead or football head haven't been mentioned yet... they suck. =) I have also done quite well on soft swimbaits, as well as most of the baits mentioned above.