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I just got into drop shotting last season and, ever the tinkerer, decided to add a little twist to the traditional rigging.  I started using a shakey head jig as the weight vs. the tube style weight with the line clip.  Picked up a number of fish on the jig as well as a few on the French fry I was using above it.  With that success, I continued to improvise and tried something I've done with C-rigs. I used a 3/8oz. Terminator jig as the weight and a paddle tail worm in combination.  I would catch on the jig or the suspended worm depending on the fish's mood. From there, I'd  switch to either a heavier jig so I could maintain bottom contact and work a little faster, Or I'd opt for a swim jig or spinnerbait with a small blade that I could keep deep, but off the bottom/

Anyone else ever have success with something similar?

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Good to hear about your success. However, in time, the odds may not necessarily be in your favor. Problem being is that the hook-set on a jig vs. a drop shot, are two distinctly different animations. Happy to see it appears to be working for you anyway. :)

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For fun fishing I tie a sunfly about 12" up from the shakey head and another 12" up from that. I have never caught a big fish on it but catching 2 spots at once is fun on light tackle.

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Good to hear about your success. However, in time, the odds may not necessarily be in your favor. Problem being is that the hook-set on a jig vs. a drop shot, are two distinctly different animations. Happy to see it appears to be working for you anyway. :)

x2.  Two vastly different hooksets.  I heard of this for the Power Drop Shot (Bubba or Power Shot). Seems to make more sense there.

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The hookset on a light wire jig and a dropshot are not that different.

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Innovative rigging, papajoe222. Glad you've had some success with it.

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Actually, I've had success with using a jig as the wait.  Flip it under a boat dock, and slowly drag the jig.  It can be deadly.

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That's pretty creative. It can't hurt to have two lures for the fish to bite, right?

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If you are a numbers guy your odds are better that way.

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Make sure to use a traditional t-rigged bait as your drop shot presentation instead of a nose hooked bait. Should make the hook set the same!

Jeff

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Sounds somewhat like a mackerel rig with only one bait with a tube worm.  When I lived on Cape Cod we used them to catch tinker mackerel as bait for stripers.  The ones we used had a silver spoon with a hook instead of a bank sinker.  The plastic tubes were various colors, red, yellow, green, etc.

 

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