Shaky head and drop shot

[AnthonyBarnaoBASS]

When do you prefer one over the other and what are your favorite plastics for each technique ?

[Ads7633]

They are kind of personal preference as to which you use. Go with the one you have more confidence in! As for baits, I like zoom trick worms for shakes heads and roboworms and KVD dream shots for drop shot.

[Airman4754]

This will be a thing like T-rig vs. C-rig. 

Fish them both and see which one you like. I personally prefer a shakey head much more, but there will a legions of folks on here who feel the other way. 

The truth is they are both great techniques and they both work everywhere year round. 

[Bluebasser86]

Shakyhead by a landslide. Trick Worm, stick worm, or finesse worms 90% of the time. 

[Justin Donaldson]

Roboworm also works EXCELLENT on a shaky head... Use a drop shot more when fish are suspended or the lake has a really mucky bottom, shaky head on hard, clean bottoms.

[The Fisher]

Bottom fishing...shaky head

suspending fish or when there is slime on the bottom...drop shot 

I use Hags Tornado on both since they float 

[ww2farmer]

Between the two, I probably fish the dropshot 80% of the time.

My favorite drop shot baits are..........in no specific order:

wacky rigged 3" + 4"  Yum dingers

Yum warning shot

4" + 6" Yum sharpshooter worms

3" Havoc Pit Boss

My favorite shaky head baits:

4" + 6" Havoc Bottom Hopper worms

4" + 7" Berkley Power Worms

3" Havoc Pit Boss

3" Chigger Craw

[DumBassFishin]

10 hours ago, ww2farmer said:

Between the two, I probably fish the dropshot 80% of the time.

My favorite drop shot baits are..........in no specific order:

wacky rigged 3" + 4"  Yum dingers

Yum warning shot

4" + 6" Yum sharpshooter worms

3" Havoc Pit Boss

My favorite shaky head baits:

4" + 6" Havoc Bottom Hopper worms

4" + 7" Berkley Power Worms

3" Havoc Pit Boss

3" Chigger Craw

This is actually very helpful for me as I am just starting shakey head/ drop shot. So do all of those shakey head baits float?

[ww2farmer]

7 minutes ago, DumBassFishin said:

 So do all of those shakey head baits float?

They "stand up" on a jig head if that's what you mean by "float"..................but to be honest, before I started using the Havoc Bottom Hoppers as my go to shaky head worm, I used Zoom trick and finesse worms, which have a higher salt content then the Havoc (which have no salt) and they didn't stand up as well.............but the fish cared little, and I still caught tons of bass on them on a shaky head. I switched brands for the sake of switching brands, and no other real reason than that. The "floating" aspect on shaky heads is, IMHO, over stated........pick a bait, rig and it on  head, and it will catch fish............if it floats or not.

[Texas_Rig_Aggie]

54 minutes ago, DumBassFishin said:

This is actually very helpful for me as I am just starting shakey head/ drop shot. So do all of those shakey head baits float?

I don't know about those four in particular, but my go-to bait is the floatin-est shakey head lure around. Gambler Lures' "Giggy Stick" has a solid head to hold the hook and a tail that is hollow (full of air) so it floats up.

Best bait for shakey heads