David Jordan
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Went out w/ the familly to the loacl lake and brought only 2 setups. 1 for dropshotting and 1 for a spider jig. The goal was to learn some new techniques instead of the standard worm and senko routine.
2 people at the ramp told me that nothing was biting. So it looked like a few hours on the lake with the familly. Went to some good deep water rocks and grass beds to try some jigging. Not even a bite after 1/2 hour. These spots always produce. Picked up the drop shot rig and figured why not try it. It's supposed to work when there's no action or a slow bite. The rig is a 6' Bass pro smallmouth spinning rod, Shimano stradic 2000 reel and 6# test Stren green line. Owner Dropshot hook and Berkly 4" dropshot worms and 3" berkly dropshot pulse worms, both in Emerald shiner. Wife wanted to leave so that was it, the 2 year old was acting up. My 6 yr old son said his arms were tired after netting so many fish.
Now I have never used a this rig before but had read up on fishing it. I set a 1/4 oz weight 20" below the bait and nose hooke the worm. Fishing the same grass bed 14 feet deep w/ scattered boulders, I caught 3 keepers in 10 minutes. Man it is fun to hook a 2 pound bass on such a noodle rod and 6# test. Moved to another similar loaction
tossed the jig for 15min w/o a bite. Pick up the dropshot rod and and boated 7 more bass in the 1/2 hour. Mostly just casting it out and shaking the rod tip. If no bites after 30 sec to 1 minute move the bait 5 feet and repeat the shaking. reel it in and cast again. I missed 2 fish because I pulled to hard to set the hook but thats what happens when your use to fishing a texas rigged worm and really have to stick them. All in all I was very impressed on how easy it is to use and it seems to be very deadly. I will definatly have one rigged during the next T. This is a good rig to use when it is hot and your just too beat up from the heat. No effort required except to reel in the bass and get the net. Then again it might be alot of work seeing how many bass I caught in just a few hours on a what was supposed to be a bad day for fishing. Let me know if you have any other tips as I'm just learning this new technique.
2 people at the ramp told me that nothing was biting. So it looked like a few hours on the lake with the familly. Went to some good deep water rocks and grass beds to try some jigging. Not even a bite after 1/2 hour. These spots always produce. Picked up the drop shot rig and figured why not try it. It's supposed to work when there's no action or a slow bite. The rig is a 6' Bass pro smallmouth spinning rod, Shimano stradic 2000 reel and 6# test Stren green line. Owner Dropshot hook and Berkly 4" dropshot worms and 3" berkly dropshot pulse worms, both in Emerald shiner. Wife wanted to leave so that was it, the 2 year old was acting up. My 6 yr old son said his arms were tired after netting so many fish.
Now I have never used a this rig before but had read up on fishing it. I set a 1/4 oz weight 20" below the bait and nose hooke the worm. Fishing the same grass bed 14 feet deep w/ scattered boulders, I caught 3 keepers in 10 minutes. Man it is fun to hook a 2 pound bass on such a noodle rod and 6# test. Moved to another similar loaction
tossed the jig for 15min w/o a bite. Pick up the dropshot rod and and boated 7 more bass in the 1/2 hour. Mostly just casting it out and shaking the rod tip. If no bites after 30 sec to 1 minute move the bait 5 feet and repeat the shaking. reel it in and cast again. I missed 2 fish because I pulled to hard to set the hook but thats what happens when your use to fishing a texas rigged worm and really have to stick them. All in all I was very impressed on how easy it is to use and it seems to be very deadly. I will definatly have one rigged during the next T. This is a good rig to use when it is hot and your just too beat up from the heat. No effort required except to reel in the bass and get the net. Then again it might be alot of work seeing how many bass I caught in just a few hours on a what was supposed to be a bad day for fishing. Let me know if you have any other tips as I'm just learning this new technique.
