You know the largemouths much better than I do Chuck.. No question about it. In part because I never even tried to fish for them until just a few years ago because I got started in this online tourney..LOL I do know smallmouths pretty darn good though and they are very different to fish for. The are a lot of fun to catch with all the jumping and trying to throw the hook ect.. While the largemouths are still fairly new to most up here. They were stocked illegally and now some of our lakes have them along with some streams and rivers are having them turning up in them now as well.
I do know they will react to what the feed is best though. That is the same with all fish. Whatever they are feeding on is what they will be hitting the best on I believe anyways. The one I caught trout fishing was full of water beetles and nothing else.. I was surprised by this. That might be why it hit my trout spinner? When the alwives run up and spawn in the lake here they will be hitting the small ones hard. In the fall the whole lake is bubbling with them. Just before dark you will see them flicker with the silver sides. The fish all over the lake will be feeding on them then. It is like a smorgish board all heading down lake to make thier way out to sea. The entire lake will come to life once they start. It is pretty cool to see, but the fish are harder to get to bite. So even though I do not really know my largemouth bass fishing very well. I do think fishing something close to what they like to feed on will surely help..