I like a 4 inch tube,something green with sparkles in it with salt and garlic in it. Also Rapala X-Rap Shadraps work well. But so far I've boated way more largemouth this spring than smallies,go figure.
depends where i am.. in a lake ill use pretty much anything id use for bass..usually brighter colors though..senkos x-raps and spinners all work well as well as a ghost shad rap on occasion.. in a river though i tend to use the rebel crawfish crank..its small and looks alot like a swimming crawfish, though the action doesnt quite mimic correctly..it works wonders..also a lure by the name of the sliding weight craw has caught me a buncha smallies..but they are tough to find nowadays.
Thanks for the feedback fellas, I for one will be using 4"watermelon seed senkos. They worked wonders last year... also inline spinners cast downstream are bound to catch White perch/Smallmouth in abundance.
i like to use a 3/8 oz shakey-head with a chompers twintail spider grub or a 3/8 bullet sinker with a texas-rigged yum woolly-hawgtail oth in a brown or green color with red flake