Smallmouth Bass are very a aggressive species and are wonderful fighters. They can be finicky about what they eat at certain times, but even then they will instinctively react when you drop a lure in front of their nose.
Smallmouth forage for crayfish, shiners, chubs, perch & other panfish, minnows & other bait fish, leaches, larval stages of flies, and anything else alive in the water of the right size.
Right size is of course relative. We all have managed to catch some smaller than the lure we were using. That is when you know they are on the feed!
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Smallmouth forage for crayfish, shiners, chubs, perch & other panfish, minnows & other bait fish, leaches, larval stages of flies, and anything else alive in the water of the right size.
Right size is of course relative. We all have managed to catch some smaller than the lure we were using. That is when you know they are on the feed!
Back to the Species Guide
