Bob, you have to be kidding me. It sounds like you are looking for smallies in August and it is June. There is no rocket science here. All you have to do is slowly motor around any island or inlet and look for the big white spot under the water near the shore, it is a Smalley nesting. Throw your lure over and catch a fish, it couldn’t get much easier. I think just about any lure works including a piece of yarn with a pop top on it. This past weekend we had 12 bass boats float by our dock and 8 of them caught the same fish in the same spot, kind of like shooting ducks in a barrel. The only sportsmen that missed were the ones that "hovered" their boat over a nest and jigged for the fish, maybe it was tired. Good luck
