Quote Originally Posted by MrSplitshot View Post
A 3" Yamamoto grub is hard to beat. My favorite Kentucky stream smallmouth color is #284, which is root beer with red and gold flake. Fish it Texas rigged on a 1/8oz Charlie Brewer Slider head. Classic rig that catches smallies.

Use that same head with a Zoom Tiny Brush Hog or a 4" or 6" finesse worm.
Those weedless slider heads are good too.

Most creeks I fish I am wading or out of a kayak. I rarely lose anything because you can wade or paddle over and get it unhung.

I use owner or gamakatsu #1 wide gap hooks.
"J" Hooks here > http://www.ownerhooks.com/products/h...hooks.htm#5140
http://www.gamakatsu.com/fishing-hooks.php?pid=1156

The straight tail 4" and 6" slider worms are good creek baits as well. I like a root beer or smoke with red fleck. Avoid anything with a different color tail as the blue gills will nip it off. You don't have to use the wide gaps for these. A regular #1 offset worm hook will work. You can put them on a regular jig head as well but then you have to deal with hangups.

I like crawling those texas rigged plastics over limbs and through tree tops.