Dropshoting Today

I spent most of the day drop shotting today. I rigged a 1/0 wide gap hook
with a cut tail worm and proceeded to have a blast. I caught a lot of fish
today. No real size, but I probably caught 30 keepers, and twice that many
shorts. I found I could rig the hook to stand out a little easier with a
trilene knot instead of a palomar, but I think that is just my personal
prefference for and comfort with the knot. I noticed that the drop shot rig
tends to get all twisted up and takes some time to straighten out quite
often when fighting a fish. Is there something that can be done to reduce
that?

My hook ups improved drastically when I opened the hook up a little and bent
the point off to one side, although I didn't miss many bites.

Those small cut tail worms attracted a lot of sunfish too. In fact I think
a drop shot with a tiny grub like you might put on a crappie jig might be
just perfect for sunfish.



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Bob La Londe wrote:

Those small cut tail worms attracted a lot of sunfish too. In fact I think
a drop shot with a tiny grub like you might put on a crappie jig might be
just perfect for sunfish.


we use the tiny trout worms, or the tail of a split tail worm for
sunfish on the wiggle drop shot rig, but bass up to 6 lbs have been
caught on them as well as every other game fish that they have been put
in front of. Mojo is having a mold made now for a 1/8 inch dia. 5 inch
long worm,, pinch it in half for the sun fish, drop shot it, or 5 times
better. "Wiggle" rig it whole for bass, you will be seeing an artical in
North American Fishermen on it soon.

The tiny grubs work, but they do not catch near as many as the tiny
worms, The Berkly "tiny" worms in the jar really catch the most, but
they don't last long.

In our "controlled test" we put the little worms so rigged and fished
against live worms, rigged for bottom fishing, and float fishing,
average results were 5 to 1 over the live worms rigged normally, and
about 2 to 1 over live worms rigged with the wiggle rig. (you get a
better action off the plastic)

We were using Mega Strike on the plastics

Hopefully we will get the masses fishing for pan fish this way someday.

If you don't believe this, I will gladly send you "free" a couple of
rigs for anyone to test, if the fish are there, this "will" nail them,
of course be prepared for that bass that comes by to suck it up as well

P.S. we also tested against the straight drop shot rig, we had a three
to one better catch rate with the wiggle. a 1 inch rod tip bounce,
against steady tension, of the wiggle rig, puts the most productive
action on the little worms.

These test were done over 15 days stretched out over 10 weeks, fishing
was done side by side, bank fishing, the fish were not on the beds at
the times they were done.

When we did test during bedding, everyone caught fish on about every
cast anyway, just the plastic worm guys didn't have to re bait as often





--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

"Rodney" wrote in message
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If you don't believe this, I will gladly send you "free" a couple of rigs
for anyone to test, if the fish are there, this "will" nail them, of
course be prepared for that bass that comes by to suck it up as well


Sure Rodney. I'll try them.

Bob La Londe
849 S Ave C
Yuma, Az 85364

Bob La Londe wrote:

Sure Rodney. I'll try them.

I'll get you some sent out next week,,
your going to have a ball

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
I noticed that the drop shot rig tends to get all twisted up and takes
some time to straighten out quite often when fighting a fish. Is there
something that can be done to reduce that?

So anybody got any feedback on that?



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Bob La Londe

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Never had that problem
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"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
I noticed that the drop shot rig tends to get all twisted up and takes
some time to straighten out quite often when fighting a fish. Is there
something that can be done to reduce that?

So anybody got any feedback on that?



--
Bob La Londe

Win a Spinnerbait Tackle Kit

Spinnerbait Tips & Tricks Contest
Through the Month of September 2005

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Bob La Londe wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message

I noticed that the drop shot rig tends to get all twisted up and takes
some time to straighten out quite often when fighting a fish. Is there
something that can be done to reduce that?


So anybody got any feedback on that?




--
Bob La Londe

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Bob,

I usually just end up retying it. I havent found a good way around it.
:-(

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
I noticed that the drop shot rig tends to get all twisted up and takes
some time to straighten out quite often when fighting a fish. Is there
something that can be done to reduce that?

So anybody got any feedback on that?

I don't use a drop-shot rig too often for bass, but I have found them to be
very effective when walleye fishing. I really haven't noticed a problem
with tangling or twisting. Of course, I'm using 8 or 10 pound PowerPro and
that might make a difference.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
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G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com

Bob La Londe wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message

I noticed that the drop shot rig tends to get all twisted up and takes
some time to straighten out quite often when fighting a fish. Is there
something that can be done to reduce that?


So anybody got any feedback on that?




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Bob La Londe

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Also Bob, one thing that has reduced it, and seems so simple, but I
never noticed it made a difference until I started doing it , was
closing the bail of my reel by hand instead of using the handle :-).

I was like... DUH :-)

Chris

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Bob La Londe wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message

I noticed that the drop shot rig tends to get all twisted up and takes
some time to straighten out quite often when fighting a fish. Is there
something that can be done to reduce that?


So anybody got any feedback on that?




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Bob La Londe

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Also Bob, one thing that has reduced it, and seems so simple, but I never
noticed it made a difference until I started doing it , was closing the
bail of my reel by hand instead of using the handle :-).

I was like... DUH :-)

Chris

LOL. That's not exactly what I meant. The line and the tag end got twisted
at the hook. Maybe its just the little fish rolling all over the place.

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