try this
I fish some competitve smallmouth events here in ontario regularly and do quite well. The simplest thing to do is throw a weightless stick worm, rigged wacky or texas, and do nothing. Let it sink and just sit on bottom for as long as you can stand. Most of the time, if there are any bass around that have probably never seen this before, your worm won't get to bottom.
Keep an eye on the water temp if you can, it is the most important IMO. They will start getting active in the low 50's, smash anything in the shallows through the 60's. Once surface temp gets into the 70's start looking for a little deeper water, or 6-10ft flats with deep water close by.
Topwaters are a lot of fun, but I'll usually use a worm, tube, or other type of light jig if there are numbers of fish just because you can get into a lot more fish because your not fighting with a mouth full of treble hooks.
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