Drop Shot With Live Bait In Fall For Big Smallies Anyone Else Try It?

[Junebugman]

Hi I tried it and it works great when smallies are deeper my bait of choice are the biggest fatheads I can find or get my indian friend to trap me some 4 to 5" red tail chubs, I use a vmc drop shot rig or a circle hook with appropiate weight, i fish the st croix river above taylors falls. Junebugman

[Neil McCauley]

I never fish live bait, but it's tempting.

I expect lots of rock bass and perch though if at the slightly wrong depth.

[JeziHogg]

I use a DS with livebait when fishing for walleye on hardwater.

[bowhunter63]

I have never Drop shot with live bait but in the fall on the rivers i fish a big chub on the lifts on a lindy rig. 

[Junebugman]

There arent any rock bass in the upper st croix river where I go this rig is deadly when you find the depth theyre at just use a circle hook I use a 4 or 6 size never had a deep hook to pull usually top of lip. The "jig" guys always ask what im using lol. Junebugman

[olegs]

I use drop shot with live bite when fishing for perch.

[Mothercanucker]

yea medium minnows work well. My secret is drop shotting a live nightcrawler, hooked once wacky style.

[j2015]

This year I took a buddy of mine out smallmouth fishing on lake Michigan, I was telling him how big the smallies are out there, and how we catch them with different artificial lures.  He usually fishes for walleye and perch with live bait, and he thought that he would kill them with some live bait.   He tried all day and only caught a bunch of small rock bass and baby perch, while I hauled in about 6 or 7 monster smallmouth on plastics.   I think I might have converted him that day.   I think that the right presentation is key to catching bass, and sometimes they just aren't interested in the real thing 

[Spankey]

Take that there live bait off of there and get a Roboworm or a Manns Dragin worm on there in bluegill, prism shad or sand. Than hold on.