Multi-Hook Dropshot

[Smallmouth Hunter]

Would multiple hooks/baits on a dropshot rig be effective? I don't really use dropshots ever but this crossed my mind earlier and I thought it was a pretty cool idea. Have any of you every done this before?

[Sam]

Pros were adding a jig and pig as the drop shot weight until BASS put a stop to it.

 

I don't recall if FLW has done the same.

 

Anyone can let us know???

 

Unless it is illegal in your state to use multiple hooks (Bama Rig) you can use whatever lure you want for your drop shot weight.

 

I have not done this but am considering it for a future tournament or just to see what happens.

[WRB]

Would multiple hooks/baits on a dropshot rig be effective? I don't really use dropshots ever but this crossed my mind earlier and I thought it was a pretty cool idea. Have any of you every done this before?

See my post on New Techniques thread.

Bass Elites have been restricted from using dual or multiple lure rigs. If 2 or more lures are legal in your state and your tournament rules don't restrict them or you are not a tournament angler, use your imagination.

Tom

[Kevin22]

We use double rigs for white bass and crappie with two lures on one line, don't know why it would not be effective for drop shotting bass. Like previously said, check your local laws and tournament regulations if you are fishing a tourney. 

[Smallmouth Hunter]

I live in nc and I don't think there is a restriction cause my local tackle shop has bama rigs with all 5 hooks

[Sam]

See my post on New Techniques thread.

Bass Elites have been restricted from using dual or multiple lure rigs. If 2 or more lures are legal in your state and your tournament rules don't restrict them or you are not a tournament angler, use your imagination.

Tom

 

Tom have you seen the double hook drop shot rig? Another new technique that may prove effective.

[Fishing Rhino]

Multi bait drop shot rigs are old history.  They were used for catching mackerel for food, or as bait for stripers.  Four or five multi colored slender tubes over small hooks with a silver jig for a weight to get the baits down.  They were nothing new when I used them in the 1950s.  They were known as Christmas trees.

 

 

Many of the fresh water fishing techniques are adaptations of what had been used on saltwater for decades.  The "Carolina rig" for example is one.  The Alabama rig is another.

[WRB]

Multi bait drop shot rigs are old history. They were used for catching mackerel for food, or as bait for stripers. Four or five multi colored slender tubes over small hooks with a silver jig for a weight to get the baits down. They were nothing new when I used them in the 1950s. They were known as Christmas trees.

Many of the fresh water fishing techniques are adaptations of what had been used on saltwater for decades. The "Carolina rig" for example is one. The Alabama rig is another.

The pics what we call out west a ganion rig and it's used for making bait like mackerel or larger flies with circle hooks baited with pieces of fish or squide for very deep water (300 to 600') rockfish fishing.

I mentioned in the new techniques post that fresh water drop shot was originally called down shot or stacking and used multiple hooks tied directly to the line and often used a small jig as the weight. This rig was standard during the 90's, the single hook drop shot rig followed the multiple hook stacking rig.

Tom

[BassAssassin726]

See my post on New Techniques thread.

Bass Elites have been restricted from using dual or multiple lure rigs. If 2 or more lures are legal in your state and your tournament rules don't restrict them or you are not a tournament angler, use your imagination.

Tom

Where is this "New Techniques" thread?

[webertime]

Fat Ika as the "weight" of the drop shot. Tubes work as well. I use a long dropper to see if the fish are picking along the bottom or a couple feet off munching minnows. Then I'll switch to one or the other (less to lose).

[eyedabassman]

I have posted the double drop shot before. i have used the double drop shot for about 4 years now. And it works as good as one hook drop shot or better. And when VMC came out with the spin shot hooks it made evan a better rig with the hooks that do a 360 with no line twist! Now you can cover more water and have two baits at

how deep you want and also try different colors untill you find what they want.I have had many doubles on.

[rangerboy]

i have seen it thrown, the vmc hooks are great, but cant tell you if it improves your numbers or not

[WRB]

Where is this "New Techniques" thread?

UndervGeneral Bass Fishing forum, post #11.

Tom

[SirSnookalot]

Multi bait drop shot rigs are old history.  They were used for catching mackerel for food, or as bait for stripers.  Four or five multi colored slender tubes over small hooks with a silver jig for a weight to get the baits down.  They were nothing new when I used them in the 1950s.  They were known as Christmas trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many of the fresh water fishing techniques are adaptations of what had been used on saltwater for decades.  The "Carolina rig" for example is one.  The Alabama rig is another.

Down here they're called chicken or guppy rigs for fishing and for bait it's the same as sabiki rig, as common as can be for decades.   I use surgical tubes nearly everyday, I've made up smaller versions for bass.  I've never tried it but I bet my baracuda tubes would destroy muskie.  This is how I make them.

[Fishing Rhino]

Do you use a limerick hook for that tube rig?  For umbrella rigs, we'd buy the "frame" and make our own baits out of surgical tubing over limerick hooks and swivels.   We'd color the tubing with magic markers in red or black, leaving some the natural color of the tubing.  Surgical tubing also makes great sling shots.

 

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[Crestliner2008]

Multiple hook set-ups are nothing new for sure. However, adaptation to the drop shot leaves me with a serious question. When you set the hook on a drop shot, it's usually a "lifting" and reeling action, vs. a "hook-set" per say. That being said, with a jig on the bottom (or Fat Ika, or whatever other lure you want to use), how is it possible to achieve a hook-set? Do you lift & reel as you normally would with a drop shot....or do you actually "set" the hook, as you would when fishing a jig? I don't think you can have it both ways.

[SirSnookalot]

Yep, I use 12/0 Mustad limerick hooks.  I buy flo red, flo green, yellow and black tubing.  Quite few years ago these tubes were made by a fellow from Maryland for stripers and bluefish, he's out of business.  We pretty much took his design and started using them for barracuda, there about 5 of us that make them this way in my area.  Cuda tubes are available ( Sea Striker) but they do not spin because the limerick hook isn't used and with a lesser grade of tubing.  The limerick hook is exactly why I get so much line twist, even using a ball chain swivel.  

[Felix77]

The latest Bassmaster features a question about the double drop shot which I asked.  (sidebar ... psyched!)

 

In it the pro describes using it in conditions where he knows there are fish but it's difficult to decipher what presentation they want.  He recommended a 1/4 finesse jig/craw on the bottom with a worm on top.

 

In some other research I was doing on the subject I came across an idea of using a texas rigged worm with a drop shot above that.  It's one of those DUH moments for me.  The best of both worlds.  

[webertime]

Multiple hook set-ups are nothing new for sure. However, adaptation to the drop shot leaves me with a serious question. When you set the hook on a drop shot, it's usually a "lifting" and reeling action, vs. a "hook-set" per say. That being said, with a jig on the bottom (or Fat Ika, or whatever other lure you want to use), how is it possible to achieve a hook-set? Do you lift & reel as you normally would with a drop shot....or do you actually "set" the hook, as you would when fishing a jig? I don't think you can have it both ways.

With a Tube I'll lift/reel for a hookset.  With the Ika I do a snap set (I use braid to a leader for my drop shots).

[RT25]

I been experimenting using a skirted jig , shakey head jig also in place of my standard 3/8 round tungsten drop shot weight w a spinshot hook....I catch em on the spin shot and the jig at times. So if you like a shakey head and you like a drop shot u can try fishing them at the same time and experiment with different baits...ENJOY!