We just came back from a 4 day camping trip on a back country lake with smallmouth.
All were caught in 3 to 20 FOW (lake is up to 70 feet deep but when we found the hot spot we didn’t bother moving.
White wacky worms worked best. White spinners did well and my fiancée got the biggest of the trip with a night crawler. I kid you not, this smallie was over 5lbs.
Talking to other people on the lake they were having no success with spoons, jerk baits, jointed rapalas.