Best Dropshot Hook

Took a day trip to the river in mid-august to try and find some smallmouth. With the water being low bank access was much easier. The drop shot and shakey head were the ticket. With the water down and slow current fish seemed to be scattered. We caught them up and down the bank and fish seemed to be holding in the main river tight to the bottom. Dragging a shakey head or shaking a drop-shot caught small numbers, with the occasional 2-2.5 lber. Moral of the story is, don't overlook Minneapolis' urban fisheries!

You can find bass shallow. Parked boat in about 15ft and cast toward shore and slow worked the drop shot back to boat. Caught tons of 10-15” bass. Also inadvertently caught pike, which is why I used 12lb Abrazx leader.

Scott Clark reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and VMC Spinshot Drop Shot Hook on Lake De Montreville. Additional comments from this report: "Fish were in 8-14' of water"

Fished a drop shot and Tokyo rig on steep ledges 15’-24’ of water.

Drop shot deep (12+ feet) weed edge, coon tail patches. Find the hard bottom to weed line transitions. Utilize your electronics to find those transitions.

Patrick Howard reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Owner Cover Shot Worm Hook on Mitchell Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Large mouth were really fierce and hitting hard this morning. Landing one after another in the 2-3 lbs range on the far north side docks. About 65 degrees and overcast sky’s with a ~7mph breeze out the east made for pleasant weather. "

No motors on this lake but a fun lake to Kayak! Throwing drop shots seems like the most efficient way to catch fish consistently. Natural colors seem to work best although, you can catch fish on darker colors as well.. The north east side of the lake has a small creak channel that opens into the main lake. Fish this creek mouth.

Had a recent kayak tournament out there with Minnyak Kayak club. Fishing was great on independence. Water was pea soupy but cleared up later on in the day as the winds pushed all the green stuff to the north end. Dropshot caught a majority of my fish. Targeting weed edges and hard bottom transitions. Key was literally leaving the drop shot deadstick. Saw on the scope they were interested but if you jigged too hard they’ll scatter. So I knew to slow way down. Also caught a few slow dragging jigs and occasionally hopping them. A classic Texas rig also caught a few keepers targeting topped out weed clumps in 5-8fow. Have fun!

Brandon Downs reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Gamakatsu G-Finesse Aaron Martens Drop Shot Hook on Lake Waconia. Additional comments from this report: "The bite is really tough right now, the bass are in a post spawn funk it seemed like to us. We also saw bait all over the lake so it’s hard to find the right areas. We fished secondary ares such as secondary points or secondary drops along a bank, those kind of areas seemed to work best for us and we were able to catch about 15.50lbs for our best 5 "