Other Mille Lacs Smallmouth presentations??

We have tried Mille Lacs Smallmouth with some standard presentations including tubes, crankbaits, Texas rig senkoes, and twister tails.

Two presentations we haven’t tried are wacky worming and drop shotting. Wondering if anyone could share some insight as to plastic type to use for drop shotting, hook size, and weight. Also, we would also like to try wacky worming with senkoes as well. Is it neccesary to weight the sinkoes?? Also, what would be good senkoe color choices??

Anybody care to share some presentation info regarding both wacky worming and drop shot presentations for Mille Lacs Smallmouth.

No weight needed for the senkos WR if using a spinning reel. Motor oil color, 4″.

Dont forget the old standby of corkin with a crawler, my personal favorite.

Bubble gum Senko rigged wacky style. Corkin with a crawler is cheating

I just got back from a week long stay on Mille Lacs with my family. My son wanted to chase smallies in the evenings. He was using a wacky Senko which they seemed to attack with little hesitation. He also picked up a 25″ eye while working the rocks in about 6-8 feet of water. His best walleye for the trip was a 28 1/8 which is bigger than Dad’s PB!!

As far as dropshotting goes I like the standout hooks in the 1/0 or 2/0 size if you can find them. For weight use as light as you can get away with. Most of the time I fish the 1/8 or 3/16 oz size. If fishing in lots of rock save your money and just go with large splitshot. They cost less and pull off easy if you get hung up on rocks. Simply pull up hard to get the hook back pinch on a new splitshot and your back fishing. Almost any strait tailed worm in the 4-6″ size will work. Also try wacky rigging these worms while dropshotting. Another good plastic choice is a zoom baby fluke. Pearl white is a excellent color on smallmouth. Good luck let us all know how you do.

Try a double willow blade 3/8 oz chartreuse/white spinner bait.

Thanks for the info regarding hook styles, colors, and weight vs. no weight. I even had to Google Standout hooks to see what they look like and I can see how they would work fine.

As for my dropshot sinker I was thinking about using a slinky rig I have used for steelhead for years. I can change the weight by the number of #5 sinkers in the slinky. The thing about the slinky rig is that is very snag resistant and slides over rocks (it does in rivers and I am sure it will do the same in lakes). Here is a picture of it. Anybody see why it wouldn’t work as well as regular pencil lead??

I’m not much of a drop-shotter, but have used stand-out hooks before in the past. VMC came out with a good looking hook this year that should work well too, called the Spin-Shot.

Husky jerks and top-waters should round out your list as well. When they’re aggressive up on the reefs, that HJ bite is dynamite!

Joel

That hook makes setting up a drop shot really easy. Also reduces line twists..