Haven't done it in a very long time, but I used to catch Smallmouth at Cumberland in mid-late Oct.
I caught them using two different techniques : Big minnow on a hook/sinker rig cast out and allowed to pendulum fall back to the boat
.... the other was casting a twin prop topwater bait and doing the jerk/jerk/pause routine. I fished the rocky islands out on the main lake outside of the mouth of Bucket Branch, and the points just inside the mouth of Beaver/Otter Creek.
I would occasionally also catch a few KY Spotted Bass with these techniques. Never caught anything over a couple of pounds, but I was pretty much a stone rookie at Smallmouth fishing ... so catching even the smaller ones was an accomplishment (to me). And since I had no intent on keeping any of them .... the smaller ones were entertaining enough to make me come back and fish for them, several years in a row.
Now, before I get any "stuff" about sharing my "hotspots" (or anyone else's) .... this was probably a good 20+ years ago, and those spots were already well known "community hotspots" long before I ever fished them. I've only fished Cumberland twice since then, and both times I was Crappie fishing !!