Wanting to go out tomorrow and I know it’s a different world with the weather and water being cold (50 outside, water has thin layer of ice in the morning) at some local ponds.
Planning on fishing a river but haven’t fished a drop shot before. Does this look right?
Posted by Correct-Sea-198
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Not saying a drop won’t catch a fish, but you want to move slow in the winter. Slower than shaking a drop-shot IMO
If I’m nose-hooking plastics, I put the point of the hook into the bottom about a quarter or half inch back from the tip of the nose, rotate the hook towards the front of the bait, and feed it forward until the point is almost flush with the center of the nose of the bait, but not sticking out. If there is a lot of stuff in the water, I go to an offset shank hook and fish it weedless style.
Everyone does it their own way, though…and what you did will likely work. It just seems a bit more prone to snagging, and the bait isn’t sitting as horizontal in the water.
Just get a good jerk bait that suspends. You will catch a lot more fish.
Yes. Caught a bunch of perch in late November with a fly on a drop shot rig.
I just threw the rig in and lightly twitched the line every few seconds, varying time between twitches
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