Poppers with a Weight Forward floating line are the most fun. Wooly buggers work great in moving water for smallmouths, as will any large sinking nymph with a sink tip line. One of my favorites is a simple weighted muskrat nymph.
As far as when...I remember a tournament I won on Lake Cachuma in 1981 using a fly rod with streamers. The key was that it was post spawn, and the bite was terrible for everyone except for me and my fly rod. Fishing a streamer around weedbed nurseries next to spawning areas produced the winning limit for me. The only bass that were feeding were doing so on all the fry in the shallow weedy areas. The bass weren't big, but they were bigger than everyone else's. They banned 8' rods on that tourney circuit after that; guess I made a few guys mad.
ciao,
Marc
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