this rig is becoming more popular every single day it's the drop shot rig and if you're here because
you like catching bass this thing is going to perform for you so i'm going to show you how
to fish it where to fish it when to fish it and what gear to fish it with let's go welcome to
window fishing my name's darren and first let's start with the rigging you're gonna need a few
things in order to get this thing rigged up first on the hook you're going to need a one or one ott
octopus hook and you're also going to need a 1 8 ounce weight now i usually use cylinder weights
but i just used my last one and lost it and so um i had a few split shots i put that on the end of
it and it's working just fine so got to work with what you got so i need to order some more of those
cylinder weights there's a couple different options out there if you see the ball weights
not a big fan i get those caught up a lot and so with the low profile of the cylinder weight you're
not going to as you're dragging that along the bottom you're not going to get it caught up as
much alright for the line you're going to want to use around six to eight pound fluorocarbon
remember this is the finesse presentation you want low visibility and do not make the mistake
of using a larger diameter line trust me your bites as you go higher in your line you're going
to get less and less bites so trust me on that six to eight pound fluorocarbon and sometimes i'll
actually run a fluorocarbon leader on the end of my braid and there's a few other knots that will
actually tie braid the fluorocarbon very well fg knot is the best but it just takes a little
bit of practice to dial that one in and last but not least you'll need a drop shot specific lure
my favorite are these kvd perfect plastics i believe this one is the dream shot green pumpkin
and this thing just performed to me i'm up here in northeast ohio i fish all lakes and ponds and
these things the bass just can't resist them so i also use a robo worm from time to time so i'll
throw those in the description below the key here is making sure that whenever this is this goes to
your fishing pole whenever this is in its natural presentation that this hook is actually facing up
not down and what i used to do for a long time is put the weight on the bottom and then tie
on the hook with the palomar knot and the problem with that is that a lot of times it's really hard
to dial in and make sure that the hook when you're done tying that knot is facing up so
now i do it a bit differently i actually put the hook on first facing up and then you will make a
loop with your line and i'm going to show you in a close-up here make a loop with your line
and basically take your hook and wrap it around and put it through that loop five times moisten
the line and then slowly tighten that together and boom you have a knot on your line that'll
keep that hook facing up and that's where you want it because you want to set the hook on the roof of
the mouth keep that fish pinned in and your hookup ratio is going to increase if that hook is facing
up so don't forget this part then after that you're going to type your weight i usually use 1 8
ounce whenever i'm fishing like eight feet or less and then i'll increase the weight as i'm fishing
deeper all right let's talk about hooking up your lure now this is uh there's three different ways
i've seen guys do it i have a personal favorite some guys just take it and run it just like that
and that's fine others will take it run it in the bottom and out the nose and out the nose
like that i don't like that either what i like when i think makes an excellent presentation
and i have the most luck on is basically putting it through the bottom but instead of running it
all the way out like i did last time you basically run it to where you can kind of feel the point on
the top of your finger and stop as this thing is on the bottom it's going to make for a really nice
natural presentation so that's the way i'd hook it up now if you're not having any luck with that
type of hookup what i also like to do for my robo worms a bit longer is that'll hook it wacky style
you know me if i can introduce the wacky style to any type of lure i will because i love the wacky
style fishing and man you will catch some fish if you rig it up in the center um so i wouldn't do it
for this particular lore but for a robo worm it's a little bit longer man that action just drives
those bass crazy and that's how you rigged the drop shot now that's half the battle now how do
you fish the drop shot now you can catch fish on the drop shot and summer spring fall and winter
it's actually a really great presentation for winter to catch those lethargic bass but this rig
is a common rig that i have set up on my fishing kayak i usually have six rods six different types
of setups and one of them typically is the drop shot rig because it performs so well now i'm up
here in northeast ohio and i will fish this thing just about anywhere i know it won't get caught up
and so i'm gonna find those i look for ledges that i know are there i find on my electronics i'm
gonna look for those deep weed lines if i can find those i usually will throw these next to lily pad
line and see what i can pick up there basically any place that i know this exposed hook is not
going to get caught up on i will fish the drop shot now electronics are going to help you out
a whole lot when fishing deeper water to locate those stomps those roads those deep shelves those
rock piles that structure that bass hold up on which is perfect for drop shotting so how do you
fish the drop shot there's a variety of different ways and a lot of people what they'll do is it'll
throw this out and they'll pop the weight along the bottom and sometimes that will catch fish
but that's not by design how you fish this thing the design of how you fish the drop shot is that
you kind of move the semi slack line and make this thing dance along the bottom so it's a really slow
presentation finesse presentation for those bass especially like this morning i couldn't catch them
on the ned rig couldn't catch them on the wacky rig couldn't catch them on the whopper popper
it wasn't until i brought out this finesse rig the drop shot rig that i start picking up bass
this morning so there's obviously a weight on the bottom so when you throw this out you're
going to want to let it sink to the bottom but from that point out there's a variety of
different ways you can retrieve this catches bass one just like i said you dance it two
you can actually pop the weight let it fall wait five seconds lift the weight up let it fall
wait five seconds i don't do that presentation a whole lot but if you have electronics and you
know the bass are there may be a really great strategy to use next is the slow dance that's
the one i love the most basically cast it out let it sink to the bottom and just really
slowly dance i mean we're not trying to create a techno party here i mean just do a slow dance
um real i mean kind of brutally so i'm kind of a power fisher and so to fish something really slow
like that it's kind of painful but man it just works some people fish cover with this basically
throw it out when you hit that cover stop and then you slowly dance it so that's another way to fish
the drop shot rig and the other one is if you're not having any luck with those drag it so throw
it out drag it pause drag it pause i mean some anglers they swear by this method so if you're
coming up short with some of the other message try out the drag and kind of dead stick
and you might pick them up that way now here's a unique to drop shotting a lot of times since
it is finesse and it's really light you got to pull up on your rod every once in a while
to see if in fact you do have a bass another way to watch your line sometimes it starts taking
off to the right or to the left and you don't have to set this thing and rip their lips out
with a drop shot rig if you have it set up correctly with the hook up all you have to
do is lift up on your pole and you usually will hook set them in the roof of their mouth so it's
not like when you're fishing a jig you feel bite and you try to set that hook as hard as you can
with the drop shot real easy gently up and you will have them hooked dial this lure in and i
promise you you will have a new favorite way of fishing hey guys thanks for watching see ya bye