Here in West Virginia we like to keep things simple when it comes to our smallmouth fishing. We don't complicate things by bringing out the fly rod. We use light tackle spinning rods equipped with no more than 6lb. test. Then we get a sine net and mattock and head down to the shoals and catch us some hellgrammites, for those of you that don't know what a hellgrammite is, let's just say they're like ribeye steaks to smallmouth.
Here in West Virginia we like to keep things simple when it comes to our smallmouth fishing. We don't complicate things by bringing out the fly rod. We use light tackle spinning rods equipped with no more than 6lb. test. Then we get a sine net and mattock and head down to the shoals and catch us some hellgrammites, for those of you that don't know what a hellgrammite is, let's just say they're like ribeye steaks to smallmouth.