Whats So Great About A Drop Shot Rig?
What’s great about the drop-shot technique is that there is no right or wrong way to fish it nor is there only “one way” to fish it. I always have a drop-shot rig on deck and rarely do I not fish it, successfully, on any given day. There aren’t many fishing rigs you can say that about. Traditionally the drop-shot technique has been a vertical presentation for deep water, that is, anywhere from 20´ to 100´. Today, drop shot fishing is also employed as a horizontal presentation in shallow water. I’ve found that horizontal dragging a drop-shot rig is very effective on smallmouth in Dale Hollow and Center Hill lakes, the Tennessee impoundments where I often fish. Why should you consider a drop-shot rig rather than a Carolina rig or a Texas rig in shallow water? They’re both great rigs, no doubt. But with both, when you stop retrieving the bait, it falls to the bottom, if it ever even left it. Are the bass always on the bottom? With the drop-shot technique, the very nature of the ri
