On if you are talking about smallmouth, bigmouth or black buffalo. They all have distinct feeding and locational preferences. Also depends on where you fish for them. I know down in Texas they catch smallouths on boilies and weird carp rigs, just because that is what the fish are used to feeding on in the small heavily-fished lakes.
If you are talking about bigmouth buffalo, there is no good bait only patience and luck. I catch mine on flies.
For smallies around my waters, we mainly catch them on crawlers, chunks of algae and flies.
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I've only ever caught two Smallmouths but both have been on big chunks of nightcrawler on a bottom rig.
On if you are talking about smallmouth, bigmouth or black buffalo. They all have distinct feeding and locational preferences. Also depends on where you fish for them. I know down in Texas they catch smallouths on boilies and weird carp rigs, just because that is what the fish are used to feeding on in the small heavily-fished lakes.
If you are talking about bigmouth buffalo, there is no good bait only patience and luck. I catch mine on flies.
For smallies around my waters, we mainly catch them on crawlers, chunks of algae and flies.