"Chris Rennert" wrote in message ...

Personally, I would stick with float fishing and run a Case Hellgie 2"
(natural colors) on a 16 ounce jighead.
Also I would spool with P-Line fluorocarbon (6lb) and use a 4lb fluoro
leader.
That is how I usually deal with that situation. Other baits I have had good
success with (float fishing for smallies in clear streams) are hair jigs, 1"
Berkley power tubes (natural colors), and 1" berkley craws (natural colors).

By float fishing do you mean in a float tube? The reason I ask is that
I had a crazy idea to try the float'n'fly technique on streams.
Actually I already tried it. I tied a 1/16 float'n'fly jig on my line,
then put a bobber about 3 feet up. I got upstream from a pool and cast
it out and kept the bail open to let it just drift in the current. It
looked like it might work but the conditions were bad so it wasn't a
really good test (water temp 47, super bright blue skies).