Drop shot from shore?

[Five-Alive]

The drop shot is actually very versatile and can definitely be used from shore. I mentioned in another thread that all I do is lengthen the distance between my hook and sinker when fishing from shore, that way I can still keep the bait off the bottom. We fish our city reservoir a lot and one day while fishing the drop shot some fish started breaking near us so I through the drop shot at them and bam ........ hooked up real quick. What started as slinging what I had in my hand at the time has turned out to be a very successful tool at the schooling bass, at least on this particular body of water.

I also noticed the robo worm in the picture above, I use several different colors but the 4.5" robo worm is by far my favorite drop shot worm.

[CybrSlydr]

The thing I worry about when I DS from shore is that the presentation isn't going to be as vertical - and you don't get as much distance into the water because you have to keep tension on the line so the bait is still suspended.  You can easily lose 25-30ft of your cast getting the slack out and keeping tension on the line.