How To CONSISTENTLY Catch Smallmouth Around the Spawn 

Your videos are like the PhD course for smallmouths. Between you covering the smallmouths and ARudd covering largemouths, that's a heck of a bass education. Keep up the great work!

Fishing AROUND the Spawn for Smallmouth Bass Late Prespawn, Spawn, Post Spawn When - 53 - 70* stable weather or warming trend conditions. Want the water to be warming because this will help fish move off of the deep breaks and have them roaming on shallow cover, looking for spawning areas Where - target shallow cover. Shallow is relative based on body of water and water clarity. In glacial style bodies of water with ultra clean water this could be 6” of water out to 30’ but on tannic/dirty reservoirs or rivers could be less than 5’ of water. Target shallow flats near the main lake around hard cover. Smallmouth typically spawn closer to the main lake. They will spawn around hard cover with semi hard/hard bottoms. Glacial bodies of water - small contour change or ditches, any cover, Marl bottom Rivers/Reservoirs - Sea walls with mixed rock /sand, boulders, current eddies, anywhere with slack water semi protected Great Lakes - shallow flats, islands, connecting rivers. Look for transitional areas, not straight rock bottom. Gravel or mixed sand rock works best Baits - 1.) Jerkbait - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nUiKX6nMAuY.html Fluke 2.) Hair Jig - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7K-RXmZQzyc.html 3.) Small Swimbait - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hpOoSlHn6xs.html Swim Jig - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o3Wd8C8U6ko.html 4.) Dropshot 5.) Ned Rig - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nFVQ5IeNBnQ.html

Great info. Thanks! If I’m catching medium size bass any tips for finding the bigger ones?

You ever use a roach bait? I know eh, never heard of them either before I found some in a European store. Basically a swim bait trailing a couple spinner blades. I was fishing for pike last spring in shallow water and kept catching spawning small mouth. They loved that bait. Thanks for great video

Just found you channel and have already leaned so much. I mainly fish smallmouth and this filled the niche that "tacticalbassin" doesn't really cover. My new go to smallie channel easily

So underrated as a youtuber, I would love to fish with you one day I live up in Traverse City

Well done Ben. Great, time appropriate, content. This is the best time of year to catch big fish. And, I totally agree, take care of these fish. Minimize handling. The big ones are the breeders, the ones that sustain our fisheries for future generations.

Great video bro. Love the tips. PSA is awesome. Totally agree. 👍

Good stuff bud. Well laid out and informative 👍👊🤘🤙

Great video Ben you can really tell how much work you put into your videos!

These are all great tips . I have had success lately on a small swimbait . Like a 3.25/3.3 in . What I did run into was the ailwifes or minnows where up shallow spawning first thing in the morning at th launch. Do you fish the minnow spawn at all?If so would love to see a vid . Our wayer temps where so cold and really really fast its 65 . We have a full moon Friday so hope can see a bunch Saturday . Hope all is well bud.

lots of good info thanks

Great info as always

Good stuff man It's a little different down here.

Nice video I really want to try a hair jig

If you could only choose ONE bait that is versatile and catches LOTS of smallmouth (not necessarily huge ones) what bait would you choose?

good info

Great video

Where do you buy your tfo rods

Why not white on the fluke

Great video! Are you hiding your motor on purpose?