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There's a sound every warmwater angler knows — the smack of a bass popper getting inhaled, or the quiet slurp of a bluegill sipping a foam beetle off the surface. It's the whole reason topwater exists: you see the take. That takeover isn't limited to one species, either. The same handful of pattern families that fool a smallmouth off a rocky point will pull a bluegill off a dock edge, and at the right time of day, the same mouse pattern that works on a bass will get eaten by something with a lot more teeth.
There's a stretch of every summer when the responsible move is to leave the trout alone — the water's too warm, and a hard fight can kill a fish no matter how carefully you release it. But that doesn't mean hanging up the rod. Smallmouth bass thrive in exactly the water that shuts trout down, they eat flies with total commitment, and pound for pound they fight harder than almost anything. Here's how to read smallmouth water and the three ways to catch them — on top, in the middle, and on the bottom.
