Drop Shot uses

[andamtoft]

I know this rig is very versatile, just wanted to see what situations you all are using it in, as well as your favorite uses are. Thanks!

[drop-shot fool]

my favorite way is to fish around creek channel bends in 40 to 70 ft of water.  You can catch around 70 on a good day.  Thats for spotted bass though, i don't use it much for largemouth.

[Sam]

Everywhere.

In cover.

In structure.

To the shore and back to the boat.

Straight down.

Whenever I think it will give a different presentation and the bass are off the bottom.  

[Hammer 4]

X2..when Bass are finicky dropshot em.. ;D

Everywhere.

In cover.

In structure.

To the shore and back to the boat.

Straight down.

Whenever I think it will give a different presentation and the bass are off the bottom.

[andamtoft]

Does it work well when the bass are aggressive?

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Good for bed fishing too

[Crestliner2008]

The drop shot works well in just about any situation where "searching" does not have to be done. If you locate bait and/or bass, this technique can bring in the bacon. Fish in a very active mood will take it as well as when they are rather negative. Think of it this way, the DS is a precise, controlled presentation which positions the bait in the fishes face for long periods of time. No self respecting bass can turn that down!

You can beef it up and fish it in shallow, snaggly water as well. And just about any piece of plastic works - 4" to 8" worms, crawdad imitations, tubes, Fin-S Fish type baits, hellgramite imitations - whatever you have in your box!

[fishinfiend]

You can catch around 70 on a good day. Thats for spotted bass though, i don't use it much for largemouth.

  I don't know what I would do if I caught that many in a day. I am just getting into this technique and I am very excited about it.

[Banor]

X2..when Bass are finicky dropshot em.. ;D

Everywhere.

In cover.

In structure.

To the shore and back to the boat.

Straight down.

Whenever I think it will give a different presentation and the bass are off the bottom.

x3

[zgonce]

dont get too excited it is a very good way to catch a limit really quick if you can get on the fish with your graph but there has been days when i have never been so bored in my life and was lucky to get a limit after drop shoting for nine hours....

[schreecher]

The drop shot works well in just about any situation where "searching" does not have to be done. If you locate bait and/or bass, this technique can bring in the bacon. Fish in a very active mood will take it as well as when they are rather negative. Think of it this way, the DS is a precise, controlled presentation which positions the bait in the fishes face for long periods of time. No self respecting bass can turn that down!

You can beef it up and fish it in shallow, snaggly water as well. And just about any piece of plastic works - 4" to 8" worms, crawdad imitations, tubes, Fin-S Fish type baits, hellgramite imitations - whatever you have in your box!

I beg to differ on it not being a search bait. Look up the swimshot, and it is an excellent search bait. Put on a bigger profile bait, and then search the weed edges, constantly reeling the bait back with twitches imparted in the rod tip. Awesome on the weed edges for smallies, or on the deep flats. Sure you could use a Carolina Rig, but this is just a bit different, and keeps the bait as high out of the water column as you want (adjust the length of the drop). Just my 2 cents....

[fourbizz]

I use it all year long from 1ft- 75ft.

A favorite way to fish it is blind casting beds in 2-8ft when the males first move up. Never caught a big one doing that, but, it sure is a lot of fun.

Another favorite is in the late fall, finding individual fish on the graph, below bait, or just on structure and force feeding them. Its awesome to watch the fish sit just below or above your bait on the screen, then all of a sudden see the two lines meet. With a good graph you can call your fish within a few seconds a lot of the time. Very entertaining.