Hope someone responds, however, if you need a report for the area, Frontier Anglers usually publishes one, here’s our link, but they should update this week sometime http://tnfishingreport.com/fishing-reports/tennessee-fishing-reports/smoky-mountains/ Also, if you want you can post this question on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TNFishingreport maybe you’ll find someone from the area, ain’t nothing like a local for prime fishing. Thanks for posting and hope you get some help, the smallies were hitting last week

Started throwing a red crawdad color crank bait. Caught couple nice 16-17″ smallmouth a few 13-14″ spots. Live well bound for the spots. It was cold raining. We kept throwing crank baits after about 11 am we couldn’t buy a bite. My buddy started junk fishing trying to find something to get a bite on after numerous times asking him to try a jig. I picked one up and bam first cast a 4# small mouth. We ended up with 3 weighed together over 10 closer to 11#. Yes we did release them but kept all the spots. They eat just as good lol. We fishing deep rock banks running against river channel and points along channels. Any crawdad color bait seems to be working. Sorry for long post. Will update this weekend we are taking our 12&10 year old daughters so may not do as good but they gotta learn also lol. Good luck fellows and tight lines.