Drop shotting, does it catch big bass or numbers?

[NorthernBasser]

2 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 Kind of insane I guess, but maybe not really.

On those flatter, calm water days - especially early summer or early fall when the fish can perhaps be in a little bit more of a transitional funk than usual - the drop shot and save the day.

Good Luck

A-Jay

I'm gonna hop the pond and you can show me the ways. Get me on some 7 lb smallies and make me a believer!   

[A-Jay]

3 minutes ago, NorthernBasser said:

I'm gonna hop the pond and you can show me the ways. Get me on some 7 lb smallies and make me a believer!   

OK - we're both gonna have to wait a bit.

Still locked & frozen solid over this way.

A-Jay

[Dwbassin]

9 hours ago, Jrob78 said:

Edwin Evers won the last BPT event on Conroe and closed it out with an 8 pounder caught on a drop shot, the only drop shot fish he caught all week.

 

Watch any tournament on the Great Lakes or St. Lawrence river and check out the giant smallies they catch on drop shots.

Yea I remember he even said on a drop shot of all things. He’s one of the top dogs right now

7 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Drop shot for me is pretty much an all season deal.

I do it shallow, I do it deep and everything in bewteen.

And while I would not list it as my 'best' big fish technique, each season it does account for several very respectable bass. (almost always smallies for me)

Something I started doing a few sesons ago that helped inprove the quality of fish I caught on the drop shot was instead of using the traditional 4-6 in robo worms, and Dream Shot style baits (mostly long & slender worms) was to use SK Rage Craws, SK Caffiene Shad & Small swimbaits. 

 Clearly 'traditional' drop shot worms are Killer baits - but for me they do seem to attract a slightly smaller version of what I'm grinding to find. 

 Started with the craw, and it was quite a surprise at how well it worked.  Since then have added the shad & the small swimbaits.  All these baits allow me to 'cover' water with a rig that I usually reserve for spot where I have a decent idea have fish.  Being able to keep this bait moving is a great way to cover deep water flats - and the smallies in ths area - choke these things routinely.  I will use both a nse hook deal and also a slightly larger straight shank thin wire hook (out the top), when ther cover is light.  

So there's that.

Here's the hooks and more info

Chris Zaldain covers the drop shot swimbit nicely here too - 

A-Jay

 

 

Thanks for the hook info that’s really what I need. I have those Aaron Grammys too. Just started drop shotting swimbait shut none of any size above 3.5”

[Dwbassin]

10 hours ago, Way north bass guy said:

For me, a drop shot has only been in play for the last few years. I can say that it has been a great numbers and big fish tactic. Here in central Ontario, we have about any kind of water you could think of for bass, from super deep, gin clear Canadian Shield lakes, to shallow, fairly dirty stump and weed filled lakes. I’ve used a drop shot with several different kinds of baits in many different waters, and it’s worked well to catch easily over 60 smallmouth in one day with my 9 year old, as well as some absolute pigs. It’s also become one of my go to tactics for pulling big largemouths out from under docks on some of the lakes I fish. Not too many days now where there isn't at least one rod on the deck with a drop shot attached. 

I can vogue for the dock theory, I was blessed with a trip the lake Anna this December on the warm side and drop shotting docks caught my biggest(about 3) and majority by far. Always wanted to venture up your way

[Spankey]

14 hours ago, Dwbassin said:

You’re referring to PA right? I fished raystown last year and my girl tied a drop shot on and lost her pb cause she was using junk line. It’s good and no question my favorite but a lot of dinks, now cranking I’m just diving into. Lipless being my new favorite switching out hooks on warpigs and red eyes now lol

Man I would have killed for that “accident” , were you fishing a medium light rod?

Yes I'm primarily fishing PA outside of a short roadtrips down your way. I love fishing here I'm just implying that I don't fish the Bass Fishing Capitals of the United States. I have a plan in the works to fish Alabama and Tennessee maybe I won't go home.   

[Bankbeater]

Actually I do better letting a t-rigged plastic drop straight down and then bringing it up off the bottom a foot or two.

[Dwbassin]

13 minutes ago, Spankey said:

Yes I'm primarily fishing PA outside of a short roadtrips down your way. I love fishing here I'm just implying that I don't fish the Bass Fishing Capitals of the United States. I have a plan in the works to fish Alabama and Tennessee maybe I won't go home.   

There is some gooooood fishing in PA but if you go south go to Florida. A couple of my buddies and I went and slept in a van cooking deer meat in Home Depot parking lots. Fishing Everglades and anywhere we saw water. By far the best trip of my life and the best fishing but when we went most of the peacocks died due to 50 degree temps the entire time we were there

[FCPhil]

17 hours ago, Dwbassin said:

I always talk/hear people saying drop shotting should be done in the winter. Last year was when I really got obsessed with drop shotting and I always went to it for confidence. It caught me sooooo many fish when nothing else (even Ned rigs) did. However, I never caught a fish over 4 pounds drop shotting. I usually use smaller profile baits less than 3 inches. Should be said I never bed fished with a drop shot either and usually don’t dare throw it towards any cover at all. Just wondering if anyone has any idea what could be going on with that

It can catch bigger fish but it is less likely to catch big fish than bigger presentations. 

[NorthernBasser]

20 hours ago, A-Jay said:

OK - we're both gonna have to wait a bit.

Still locked & frozen solid over this way.

A-Jay

Oh I know. Here too. Sometimes I wonder why I don't move south. Maybe to TN.

[Columbia Craw]

I caught two LM over seven pounds on a drop shot at Clear Lake a few years ago.  If you put it near a bigger fish, they will eat it.  I broke off a really good fish last fall on a drop shot.  My buddy told me it was a catfish and then threw right in behind me and caught a 6-4 LM which is still his PB. Go figure.

[jtharris3]

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