Lure wrote:
my question is what bait was on that small hook and why in the picture is the
bait missing,


Drop shot fishing, nose hooked plastics are often lost when the fish jumps.
Sometimes you catch 8 or 9 fish without losing the plastic. And sometimes you
lose it on the first fish. But almost all of them float right up and are
re-usable if you are of a mind to retrieve them. Just bite off the torn nose of
the bait and re-rig it.

Don't recall which of the various small plastics that fish was caught on. I use
them kind of interchangeably when drop shotting.

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