Drop Shot Fishing from the Bank (Testing the Xzone Finesse Slammer)

Okay for today, looks like we should have a decent day of

fishing

. It's cloudy, there's a little ripple in the water. Let's see if we can find something around here. We'll start with the bait. Today we will get a small bite on the surface of the water. I'll be fine with that, oh yeah, that's fine with me, look at them all, look at all those shad, you'll see him right there with a bunch of them, okay, so far, not a bite or bite on anything, a ton of shad . activity here, they are preparing to do their entire spawning process following my lures.

I haven't even seen a bass sniff yet, check this out fish and friends, the tarpon are getting ready to spawn, get a good look at them all. Here look at this ton of them, okay let's see if we can find something in the talk. The water is very high trying to imitate the tarpon. The tarpon are definitely moving in here. The question is: can we find any big ones that want to eat? Here we go. here we go first on ChatterBait hey decent bass, okay, number one for the day, nothing too crazy, huge, gee, we got one, we put black dots everywhere, I mean everything in the chatter looks like a shad, here we go claiming the First kill of the day wasn't very big, probably hit three quarters and closed around that two pound mark.

Not a bad fish to start with, let's see if we can keep moving forward. Oh, he's a fighter, as dirty as this water. A lot of wind could really go. spinnerbait today I'm going to use ChatterBait just because it's very dirty, it's got a pretty big profile, easy for it to get into, easy to find lots of vibration, oh yeah come on I thought we could get a little more action than it looked like it was going to be a good day with a fish. I hate that you go out on a day and say, "Oh, it's going to be great." The cloud cover looks like it's going to rain.

I thought I was going to catch a lot of fish. The cloud cover is almost gone when we catch a fish it's not ideal to see some fish activity here there's a bluegill on it I don't want you bluegills okay I've seen a lot of bluegills back here let's change I have something to It looks something like a bluegill I bought at the local bait shop, I just stole

finesse

slam or bluegill color some baits I've never tried before, let's try it's supposed to be a hot

drop

shot

bait. I need all the help I can get on the

drop

shot

. category now let's see if this will catch me one or two fish, okay, okay, second second fish of the day, it's been an absolutely incredible job, I can't believe it, I haven't been able to catch anything there. go second one of the days just a small midget very good, well number two on the day at least I'm not stuck with just one, well I don't know what that is, I have to be able to find some bigger fish, what?

Damn, okay, that was a fish on this Zone X delicate

slammer

. I'm going to try this dark purple just because the water is so dirty. I don't know, maybe it will do a little better. I was trying. the bluegill just because you know if it's postponed and stuff, they're going to be mad at the bluegill, but it's such a natural color. I just don't know if they can see it that well. I really don't know, I'm a little puzzled today. I thought today was really going to be a good day and it really hasn't been a good day and pretty slow, here we go, here we're going to be a largemouth bass, okay, a little deeper, I finally found that a decent one feels like It could be. yeah, it's a decent bass, we'll take one of those old throw and shoot ones, look at Deebo sticking with it, find another decent fish, nothing huge, yeah, there we go, yeah, probably a pound and a half.

I don't know, decent fish, no. Huge, but we'll take it on a day like this when it's been tough, get out of here, fish, go, he wasn't in much of a hurry to leave either, well, that was the old drop shot, the second one on the drop shot, look. That's coming from a guy who hates it, so now I'm just trying to put in the time and work on it. I got some today. These little baits are working well. It looks like this is what they look like up close. Don't know. I don't remember what they're called, I'll bring the package up here in a second, but this is like a deep purple with some brown, almost a peanut butter jelly that was just a fish, although there's toast in that thing, the durability isn't It's best to see if I can put it next to that hole, get another use out of it, well, let's see if we can find two more in today's drop shot.

I thought we would be able to catch a few more on the reaction type baits. but slowing down with the shot here, a little bit of descent, let's see if we can find a couple of fish that grabbed it and just went to the side with a very different bite than the bluegill, they just peck at it, you you feel better, you know it's usually a bluegill pecking at it like that, a little bluegill right there, low, very tender, you'll just fill up or watch your line run or you'll fill up. I want to wait for a more solid bite and see that. the line starts to veer to one side that's the kind of bite we're looking for on a multi-species day Wow, look at the colors on those colors that definitely make holy smoke, look at that multi-species day on the drop shot, it's not one of the coolest looking fish when they spawn and get those bright colors let's take a picture of him okay here we go we'll let that guy see me with the colors when they spawn like this they are absolutely beautiful very vibrant this guy will go in no time. time like a flash look at him look how angry he'll be go go go you know interesting interesting catch there at least we know they're awake changing colors they were going to be doing their sunfish spawn mmm let's see two fish in this and it's pretty broken, so the durability of these is not that good.

I know today's video was kind of a hodgepodge. It's just been tough

fishing

. I thought today was going to be good, but a lot of these fish must be after spawning, not really. wanting to eat, you don't know the good nut back link, but right after they spawn it can be a tough catch, come on, find me a couple more bass, oh that was another bluegill, how tough is it? Although it felt more bassy when he grabbed it. Look at each other, well I don't know, apparently it's going to be a multi-species blue bass day, oh, that's the third different species of sunfish, look at that, oh, oh, and there's poison ivy, right there, really, here we go, that's a that's a professional pitch, I didn't want to stick my hand in the poison ivy, what do you know about the old typical Deebo style, of course, it's a toad, that's all I could catch lately?

Toads, damn, this guy's upset, stop the fish, here we go, another one on the old shot falling again, not a toad fact, that's a typical must dink, like the size of these tarpon runners here, get in there, multi species day, lots of Dinks, but at least we got out and felt like it was super slow, well we were going to be able to get more, but not like it happened. There's one while I'm looking at the shed. A decent little bass looking at the shed and I took a bite. I'm not even paying attention Oh, a little bigger than I thought, don't break the line, here we go, look at that, how's that for onna's skin shot I must I'm not supposed to show that in the video , there we go, it's actually a decent chunk? little fish on the drop shot again drop shot now let me drop today after a hard bite tell you what you might end up becoming a drop shot fisherman after all Randall said I must it's going to be fun learn that drop shot that's all I you're I'm going to want a fish that's a decent fish okay mate it was a little bit deeper so we're going to try to keep hitting that line a little bit deeper I don't know how I've done it.

I haven't caught this leader yet, he's not in very good shape, but I don't have much time. I don't have enough time to retie leaders and such, so let's see if we can find a couple more. One of them was hooked literally only by the skin. another one, another little bass, nothing big, another little one on the old drop and shot, I'm telling you the drop shot is the only thing that's biting now after I don't know how long, oh my gosh, I must you'll become a drop fisherman shot of dadgum. Hell yeah, they haven't been catching the big ones consistently, but I mean, it's been saving me when it's a tough bite, here we go, another little one on the old drop shot, get back in there buddy, who would have thought? he must be walking around here on a sunny day difficult fishing using just the drop shot didn't want anything else I gave up on the ChatterBait and didn't want to participate today except for an early fish, yes I have.

I have been able to find some. I have stopped shooting with the other decoys. I just throw the drop shot. Now I see if I can clean any other fish around here. I've been able to catch a few. Okay, starting to get used to this. a bit slow but sure