[chachee52]

Always fished small mouth when I used to fish. Found that the green/white spinners always worked for me, but I know that it has a lot to do with the water conditions. Lake Winnipesaukee is so clear that that color always seemed to work.
We also used to use a creature called (and excuse me if I butcher the spelling) a halgrimite. This things are black bugs that look like a centipede but have a pincher for a mouth. used to hook them just behind the head on a cap like a crayfish and put them in the water just about a foot off the bottom. fish went nuts for them!!!!! Be careful though they like to crawl under rocks and lodge in there if they actually spend time on the bottom. You wouldn't think that they would by looking at them. Most of the time you can re=used the bait too because it would get pushed up the line when the fish attacks it. I'm telling you sometime we'd just put the bait in the water and within 2-3 seconds have fish!!!!