Best Dropshot Line

I have not fished here in 3-4 years. I went out for a couple hours. I was using the drop shot in 12-15ft of water with a about 17” off the bottom. I managed to catch a few in the short trip I was on.

During the heat of the summer, fish a drop shot around submerged grass clumps.

Ben Hutchins reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Sunline Super FC Sniper on Shearon Harris Reservoir. Additional comments from this report: "Caught fish throwing the dropshot on offshore road beds."

Derame reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Sufix 832 Braid on Blue Marsh Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Dragging flat worms over main lake points. Fish were active chasing bait fish."

Christian Highfield reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Sufix 832 Braid on Lake Erie. Additional comments from this report: "Smallies are starting to move back out of shallow flats. Finding them on brush lines or rock piles in 8-12’ of water. "

I had a couple patterns that I would run each day. I started out drifting in the river around rock/sand shoals in 20-35ft of water. Primarily drifting a drop shot or ned rig. In the afternoons I would get up shallow and cover water with a Chatterbait if it was windy or a spybait if it was calmer. I wasn't finding a ton of better quality fish up shallow this time of year, but every so often I would run into a 4lb+ fish.

Was able to pick up a few nice largies drop shotting points in anywhere from 10-25 ft of water. Still some grass in the area so I was using a Robo rebarb hook in 1/0, perfect size for the 6 inch worm. Later in the day switched to a nose hooked flatworm and picked up several smallies in the same areas.

Put up a 20lb bag fishing a drop shot in the grass. Just made frequent pitches to columns of topped out grass patches. Half the time they wanted no imparted action, the other half I’d give it a light shimmy. Caught plenty of little guys but eventually you’ll run into the right ones. The Blueback Secret was working great, switched over to Green Weanie when I ran out of the blueback.

Fishing flats with Jack Hammer; Locating fish then slowing down with robo-worm drop shot