best bet for smallies

Would like to target more smallies this yr. Any suggestions on lures that produce the best would be greatly appreciated. Love catching them but biggest only around 3lbs and that was like 6yrs ago would like to get pb love the fight in them fish.

Muskie caught the 5+lber I had spit the hook the day before hahaha! That thing was like a paint can jumping out of the water.

Early spring: Silver buddies in 15-25' of water. Not huge hops or pops, slight ones. Spider jigs and tubes dragged in 10-25' Suspending jerkbaits that get down 7-8'. short rips with long pauses but experiment with retrieve and stick to the one thats producing.
Later spring. Shallow suspending jerkbaits 3-4' shorter pauses. Tubes and spider jigs 5-15', Senko type baits. Look for western exposed spawning flats and fish the 1st drop.

Post spawn: Spinnerbaits BURNED just below the surface. Top water pop-r, spook ect. sub surface swimbaits

Summer: Carolina rigged creature baits, grubs and lizards. Drop shot 4" worms. Ball head 5" grubs dragged or swam. Start in 5-10' in the morning and work deeper down to 25' as the day progresses. Fish can remain in 10' or less on cloudy days.

Fall: Back to spring techniques

BadLarry - Bassturds or I can take you to our factory spot.. 4-6lbs are common. But bassturds and I was failed to hook up all of them.. I just lucky to managed to hook up 5 pounder smallies.

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Someone needs to pump the breaks a little

Jerk baits and spooks at Wachusett will get the job done.

stratos needs to go easy with the carolina rig.

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stratos needs to go easy with the carolina rig.

He forgot to add crimp the barb