Here are just a few tips for catching smallmouth bass.
• An effective bait for smallmouth bass are plastic worms or flies.
• They are less aware when they are feeding or think they will be feeding.
• Smallmouth bass will be usually found on rocky structures with and without light weed lines.
• The bass has and exceptional sense of sight, smell, and hearing.
• The smallmouth. like most fish, is light-shy.
• Smallmouth bass are schooling fish by nature, so you are likely to catch several bass in the same locations. Actually anytime I catch a fish I hit that area until I’m sure it is tapped out.
One of the most effective and most popular methods of catching a small mouth is to work over the top of weed beds. Some fishermen prefer jigs, while others choose live bait.
Smallmouth’s are active in cold waters so definitely fish for them in the spring or fall. Start searching for them when the water temperature is in the mid-40s.
When the temperature begins to reach mid-50s, they will generally start to move on to cooler or deeper holes so change your technique. A plastic worm will be a good strategy with this because even the most slow-moving bass will respond when you drag one slowly in its nose.
I have more success catching largemouths in the summer but you just never know.
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