Simplifying DROP SHOTS + Tricks That Catch BIG ONES

I'm not kidding, one of the best techniques we have as bass anglers is a

drop

shot, here we go, okay, come on buddy, there, I mean, it's probably two and a half pounds. I love fishing if you are like me. No matter how big they are, sometimes it's fun to

catch

them with a shot, whether you fish ponds, rivers or lakes, it is one of the most effective tools to go out and

catch

a lot of bass and some big bass, and today I want to show you some

tricks

you can do with your

drop

shot to start getting a lot more bites, so stay tuned, it will be good.

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For some fishing rods, please click the links below in the description and it will be a great help to support the HQ bass fishing camera. Now, the first trick when it comes to fishing a drop shot is less of a trick and more of a tip and big. The advice here is to simplify your drop shot fishing. I think a lot of guys really overcomplicate the drop shot and the reason I think they overcomplicate a drop shot is that a lot of times when you see guys fishing a drop shot on TV, maybe that's on the bassmaster elite series or In big league fishing you see a lot of guys using a drop shot in correlation with their electronics, so they use their electronics and get down there to fish what they see. and they're catching those fish, which is a great way to fish for bass, but the thing about a drop shot is you don't have to use it with electronics, you don't have to vertically fish a drop shot in any of my favorite ways.

Going out and fishing a drop shot is just casting the bait, whether I'm fishing from a boat or from the shore, casting it and just dragging it back to me, this is very similar to the way I would fish a texas rig but I'm fishing that plastic soft in a little different way and the other thing that guys complicate a lot is the rig and the soft plastic that they use, you know, for me I really only use two different styles. of soft plastics in a drop shot the first soft plastic is some sort of straight tail worm like the one I'm holding here these are actually my favorite soft plastic worms to use in a drop shot this is a fat six inch robot worm and this is a four and a half inch skinny robo worm now when I'm fishing specifically for largemouth that's what I'm going to use this fat 6 inch robo worm this is actually my favorite color which is a daisy mutilator color , it's a phenomenal color I have.

I used to fish for bass in very clear water and stain the water a lot, but when I'm fishing for largemouth a lot of times you're fishing around heavier cover, you know, sometimes it's stumps or brush piles or maybe grass or weeds in a pond. , whatever. It may be that if I am fishing a drop shot with this worm many times I will rig it Texas style. Now I'm going to talk about rigging in just a minute, but you should know that I use this six-inch worm. ton every time I'm fishing for largemouth, if I'm specifically fishing for largemouth bass or spotted bass a lot of times, I'm going to use this smaller worm, this little four and a half inch robo worm now for me a lot of times when I'm fishing for spotted bass and smallmouth.

I'm fishing rock structure a lot. I'm going to hook this worm with my nose and that's what I'm going to use because I'm not so worried about it getting stuck in the stumps. and trees that may be down there because now it's just rock. There have been times when I'm fishing for spotted bass around brush piles, for example on Lake Hartwell. I've done this many times and in that case I just fixed this Texas style warm up. again to help you get through that brush without it hanging up, now those two worm style baits, I think you could get away with using them pretty much any time you're out there shooting the only other soft plastic style I'll use on a drop.

The shot is some sort of minnow style bait, for example this is the Zone X hot shot minnow and it's actually a Berkeley Max scented flatworm. It is now considered a worm on the package but now has more of a minnow presence, typically when I use these minnow style baits it is usually when I am fishing northern waters whether it be New York, Lake Erie or Michigan and Sinclair, that's when I'm going to use the minnow style baits as far as the soft plastics go. Now, when it comes to the equipment itself, this is something I also keep very, very simple.

I always use a cylinder style draw weight many times. I'm just going to use a lead weight like I have here because I actually make them myself and sometimes in tournament situations I use tungsten just for that extra feel, but most of the time it's just a cylindrical weight , this covers the best period now, as far as line goes, I use eight pounders. fluorocarbon line 95% of the time now I connect it to a braided main line but eight pounds of fluorocarbon is all you need now, sometimes I do up to ten pound test if I'm fishing around heavier cover, stomp thick grass and sometimes I do. go down to six pound test if I'm fishing a lot of really finicky bass in clear water a lot of times this is when I'm fishing smallmouth, but 95 of the time eight pounds of fluorocarbon is all you need right now as far as the rod I like something within a couple of inches of seven foot a seven foot medium power moderate action rod is what I like now if it's seven foot one or if it's six foot eleven that's okay this is the rod I already told you about what I like.

It's a Cobb rod, it's called the trembling type. People are always asking about gear now, so I make sure to check it out. This is a Daiwa Tatula 2500 lt spinning reel. Now, as far as the hook goes, I also try to keep this one simple. a jig when I'm fishing around heavier cover and I use a jig when I'm fishing in more open water. The hook when I'm fishing around cover is this gammakatsu backer hook, it's usually a one knot size and sometimes I use two odd

ones

. I'm going to use this and manipulate the plastic I'm using Texas style.

Now one trick you can do with this hook is, instead of running the hook through the soft plastic, I'm actually just going to skin this bait. On the other hand, this will keep this bait extremely weed-free, which will also allow me to put a great hook on that fish. Now the other hook is the one I use when I'm fishing in more open water situations and it's a little bit thinner in diameter but it's pretty much the same shape this is a vmc neko hook. I have also used just the Gamakatsu drop shot hook and have had good results with both Now when I go to hook a bait with this hook the important thing is that you don't want to take the hook out the top because this creates a lot of twists in the line .

Instead I'm going to put my hook in the belly of that worm and actually put it towards the nose right behind the plastic, this actually does a few things that can help you while drop shot fishing, one will help remove that line, the second twist will actually make the worm look a little better and stay a little more horizontal in the water column in three actually helps the drop shot be a little less free of algae when it's down there because a lot of times I'm going to fish this bait when I'm fishing in open water, but you never know. when there's going to be that random stomp or that random little pile of brush that's out there and if I hit that rig this way it's going to help me get ahead, I'll usually hook those minnow style baits when I'm fishing them now another The way you can rig A drop shot is actually a wacky style in that it's the same way you would fish it if you were fishing a shallow wacky worm.

I'll take that bait. I'm going to stick it right through the In the middle of that bait now, the best thing about hooking it crazy style is that you'll feel a lot more drag as you drag it through the water, so you'll usually have to fish it a little slower, but that It's okay because the reason I usually go flamboyant is when I'm fishing high pressure bodies of water where there are a lot of casts if a lot of guys are fishing with a nose hook and you come across that extravagant bait that is fished very slowly.

Now you're going to get more bites than other guys, a trick I learned from the late Aaron Martens is actually manipulating it, what he called Gilly style. This isn't exactly hooking the bait with your nose and it's not entirely strange to manipulate the bait either. You're actually going to take the hook and insert it about an inch into that soft plastic that you're using. The interesting thing about setting it up this way is that when you take it through the water column, the head of the bait actually catches the water and it actually kicks the tail as you take it through the water column, which has a Really unique action down there and sometimes those unique actions can give you more bites, there's not as much drag on that bait either. when you fish it in the water column and surprisingly it doesn't actually twist the line too much, it will twist it a little more than with these other ways of rigging it, but it's not too much to bear, especially if you're using braid.

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