I've made an annual trip to Canada fishing for smallmouth/musky for about the last 12 years. Later in the summer, after the spawn, you will find the smallmouth about the same places you would normally find walleye. The lake I fish is clear. You can count the rocks 25 foot down on a calm day. The fish are normally found in about 15-20 foot of water during the day. Our best luck has came on a nightcrawler and a lindy rig. Just work the edges of the dropoffs till you find the fish or locate them on a graph first.

Occassionally you will get luck and catch them in shallow water. We wore them out of tubes a couple of days in 6-8 foot of water sight fishing them. This was the last of July, the same time that we normally find them deeper.

I'd use the crawlers first then tie on some tubes, crawdads or River Otters.