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A 3-inch boot-tailed pearl grub with a chartreuse tail rigged on a 3/16 or ¼-ounce leadhead is a highly productive lure for Laurel River Lake smallmouths. This lure perfectly imitates threadfin shad. A 4-inch curly-tailed grub in the smoke bluegill color looks similar to gizzard shad and alewives.
Small, compact 1/8- to 5/16-ounce jigs in hues of brown and green with strands of purple or blue draw strikes if crawled down or across a long, shallow point in spring. Jigs worked along drop-offs that fall into a major creek or the old Laurel River channel work well. Grubs also produce in this situation.
Big smallmouths hit deep-running crankbaits in shad colors worked over submerged islands. When seeking walleye, Williams hooked several smallmouths in the 4-pound range while trolling large deep-running crankbaits over submerged islands in the past.


Author Lee McClellan is an award-winning associate editor for Kentucky Afield magazine, the official publication of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. He is a life-long hunter and angler, with a passion for smallmouth bass fishing.
That ought to answer the above poster's question.