Cooler temps, top water smallmouth

[camelbird]

With these cooler temps it seems the smallies are moving/staying up into the shallows feeding more aggressively. Fished last Sunday for a few hours at Riverbend and had a great buzzbait bite. Biggest went a little over 16"

Something I've learned about buzzbait river smallmouth fishing:

I use a 1/8oz triple blade strike king buzz bait in floro or white. I fish it with a skirt, I fish it skirt-less bare hook... or I'll fish it with a grub instead of a skirt. Never would think to throw a buzzbait with a bare hook, but it casts further stays afloat a lot easier and still gets those vicious smacks from the smallies that we all love

Figure I'd pass along the info

Justin

[DanMarino]

Cool Justin.

I've never tried without some sort of trailer on the hook. I pretty much exclusively fish mine with a curly tailed grub or paddle tail fluke instead of a skirt.

I hope Saturday morning will be a good buzzbait day.

[camelbird]

Good luck on sat

Caught this one on a bare hook buzzbait, right below a shoot between 2 rocks