Best Dropshot Reel

We took 2nd place with 15.8 lb. All of our fish were caught on a drop shot fished on the outside weed edge in about 15ft. The fish were tight on specific spots but once you caught one you could work several fish off the same structure. The zoom trick worm in red magic seemed to be the ticket. Other fish were caught on a Sukoshi bug or a jig crawled slowly across the bottom. Natural colors seemed to work well. Slow was the key, I think most of the bites actually came when I was just dead sticking the bait, drinking coffee or just eating a snack. Once we realized that it was our thing just to be drinking coffee and setting hooks! Fun day!

On Crystal Lake locate the deeper weed lines 10-15ft. Ideally locating milfoil or coon tail as the main vegetation. Using a VMC finesse neko hook, Texas-rig the plastic to be more weedless. Work the drop shot down the whole weed line until you get bites. Once you catch a fish there is a good chance there are multiple in the area so be sure to work the area over well before moving on. This should produce a decent number of fish with some quality ones mixed in.

Lonnie Bloom reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Daiwa Tatula LT Spinning Reel - EOL on Lower Prior Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Targeted the scattered clumps of milfoil and coontail with sunfish beds scattered among them. Slowly, extra slowly, dragging and pausing a soft plastic jerkbait across the beds and through the weed clumps produced numerous fish, adding a few gentle twitches on slack line proved effective in coaxing bites out of some of the bigger fish. The sunfish will absolutely blast your bait the whole time it is down there, just maintain the extra slow drag and pause with some subtle shakes here and there. "

Fish a drop shot about 18”-24” off bottom. Find weed edges anywhere from 12’-18’ of water. Find Lily pads/reeds and throw jig at edges. Also used jig around docks and was successful.

The Founding Father reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel on Beebe Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Found fish on points in 7-10’"

Handy1 reported catching Walleye using the Drop Shot technique and Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel on Lake Vermilion. Additional comments from this report: "18-26’ off rock piles."

Large schools of small bait fish roaming on outside weed lines, as well as isolated clumps of weeds 10-20 ft. Drop shot brought largemouth, crappies, and above average bluegill to the boat.

Samuel Heichel reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Daiwa Fuego LT Spinning Reel - EOL on Lake Koronis. Additional comments from this report: "Smallmouth were on rock piles in 12-16 foot of water, seemed the slower you moved the dropshot back to the boat, the better. Lots of boat pressure lead to this slow technique working. "

Brandon Gesch reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Daiwa Fuego LT Spinning Reel - EOL on Lower Long Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Mostly cloudy today, windy and cooler. High of about 70° today. Water temp was around 74°. Caught fish many different ways in many locations. But I found that the dropshot with a 6" Roboworm worked the best for me. Had much success fishing this along weed lines in 8'-15' of water. Overall it was a good day of fishing."