T-rigged drop shot

[bassguytom]

I going to try a t-rigged dropshot. I haven’t tried this yet so I put a 1/0 offset EGW hook on to try. I’m hoping it will come through  sparce weeds better. Anything else I should know? 

[Russ E]

some drop shot sinkers don't go through weeds very well.

When dropshotting around weeds I use these. they go through weeds fairly well

 

 

 

 

 

[islandbass]

T-rig is a viable option with the drop shot for sure. I employ it when conditions dictate it as you described. 

[Bluebasser86]

I do it when I'm fishing around wood, works fine. 

[burrows]

Power shot  ...... 6 inch Robo worm fat on a  2/0 light wire ewg with a three eighth ounce drop shot weight. 

[fishwizzard]

I fish the DS t-rigged most of the time.  The Roboworm Rebarb hooks work great, but you get maybe 2-3 fish per worm, sometimes less.  The Owner Finesse Heavy Cover hooks are amazing, but they are like $2 a pop or something dumb like that.  But, they are amazing;

That was at five bass and it got me like 2-3 more before the worm ripped in half where the hook pops out.  I think I still have that hook, they are very stout and sharpen easily.  Basspro sells them for like $8 a pack, I can find them on ebay for ~$6 most of the time, otherwise it's a "stock up on BF" thing.  They really are wonderful hooks and just as great as a t-rig hook, but the price makes them annoying to use for that.  

[blckshirt98]

Another weedless option is to use a normal dropshot setup but instead of nose hooking straight through, nose hook it "halfway" and keep the hook point embedded in the nose of the plastic. Just make sure that depending on the plastic/hook you're using, your line/rod is sturdy enough to get a good hookset in if needed.

 

[fishwizzard]

11 hours ago, blckshirt98 said:

Another weedless option is to use a normal dropshot setup but instead of nose hooking straight through, nose hook it "halfway" and keep the hook point embedded in the nose of the plastic. Just make sure that depending on the plastic/hook you're using, your line/rod is sturdy enough to get a good hookset in if needed.

 

I saw that method in an Aaron Martens video and it works great.  It is hell on plastics, but so long as the cover isn't small enough to fit in the hook-gap, it is very snagless.  

[Todd2]

I saw the same video with Aaron Martens a couple of years ago when I started drop shotting. Pretty much the only way I rig it.

[burrows]

Aaron martins is master finness he uses the smallest of hooks I personally can’t fish like him I believe what he says but it’s just harder to copy his techniques.

[Brad in Texas]

I was an advocate of the Gamakatsu Swivel hooks and a nose-hooked roboworm where, as shown in a previous post by blckshort98, the hook point is driven through the "chin" but not out the "nose," stays embedded in the plastic. I used this for years with great results, good hook-up and landing ratios. Then, I had one of the oddest days of my life just this past spring where I was flipping out a drop shot and getting bit and I went, literally, 0 for 20. Nothing stayed on. It was during the spawn and I think they were picking it up and swimming it away from their beds but not grabbing the hooks. Oh Well.

 

So, I thought about it all week long, went back out the very next weekend with a small Roboworm Rebarb hook, T-Rigged it where the hook point lies just below in the plastic at a very strong penetrating angle and I was just so surprised at how much better my hook ups were, how many fewer fish were able to sling it off with a jump. 

 

I haven't gone back to the Gamakatus hooks since then . . . though I'll likely use the swivel hooks when I am fishing more vertically.

 

One point is something we all know and that is the hook point is about an inch lower in the worm and that can make a significant difference compared to a nose hooked worm.

 

I love the Roboworm Rebarb hooks, all sizes. Gamakatsu makes them, by the way.

 

*** One T-rigging tip with the Rebarb hook's bait keeper up high on the hook: After you pass the point through the nose, then threading it back through the plastic, be certain to "turn" and orient your worm BEFORE you push it up and into the bait keeper. If you wait and push it up first, then twist it into place, it'll rake through the plastic, tear the interior up and lessen the plastic's integrity right where the bait keeper needs something to bite into.

 

Brad