C-Rig vs drop-shot

[mattkenzer]

Dropping the trolling motor and towing the C-Rig at a predetermined depth will find you fish.

Bottom contact is a must.

[RB 77]

On 6/14/2017 at 7:35 PM, A-Jay said:

Drop shot ALL SUMMER.

C-Rig.   NEVER.

A-Jay

 

I'm pretty darn close to this myself. haha

[Bankbeater]

If I have a choice I will fish a drop shot rig.  Fishing a c-rig always reminds me of throwing rocks into the water.

[bunz559]

Drop shot is the way to go for me. It could just be confidence but drop shotting can be fished fast as well. Pitch, twitch, reel back, and repeat. I'm used to making long casts with the c-rig and slowly dragging the bait on the bottom. At that point, the preferred bait is to drag a jig or large texas rigged worm. 

[Brad in Texas]

So many really good points, especially the post properly defining a drop shot as being simply any rig where the weight is below the hook. It actually goes by another name for this very reason: down shot.

 

What happened with the drop shot is it became tightly associated with its finesse presentation: light lines of 6 or 8 lbs. leaders or main lines, on light tackle, hooks as small as #4s, tiny slender plastics. But, it is a heck of a presentation with a large weight used to crash through vegetation mats pulling behind it a larger, bulkier plastic like a creature bait.

 

The length between the hook and sinker is often a big deal. I wanted to mention that in addition to the Gamakatsu swivel drop shot hooks that there are sources for very stout hooks in the 3/0 and 4/0 range which also use a swivel and a "pinch grip" for a separate line down from the hook to the weight. This way, you can experiment with a 6" spread, a 12", really any spread by just attaching a different length line down to the sinker. Sometimes they want the bait just off the bottom, almost as tight as a nose weighted worm, other times 3 feet off the bottom.

 

I actually have a better hook-up ratio with a Roboworm Rebarb type hook as it has the hook point lying under the skin at an angle when T-Rigged that comes flying out and snags more fish for me.

 

I rarely use much of a retrieval pace, prefer to let my drop shots sit stationary, maybe lift it a few times back in my direction before I reel up and re-cast it.

 

C-Rig = search presentation for me. Big weights are to get it down fast, hold contact with the bottom, stir up the mud and detritus like a cloud to attract fish. 

 

Both presentations, for sure, can be fished like the other.

 

Brad