Best Dropshot Rod

Lots of small ones with a couple medium sized fish. Drop shoting was the best action

Connor Nagy reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and St. Croix Victory Spinning Rods on Roberds Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Got into a few letting a dropshot drift over some main lake humps."

The bass were chasing big schools of bluegill around. Most of the bass were positioned outside the far weed edges on hard bottom. Usually 15-20ft. Started with big hair jigs and jigs but after that bit died down fished a drop shot really slow. Good size and number.

One of my favorite ways during the summer to find both numbers and quality of largemouth bass is to drop shot weed lines. There are vast amounts of good quality weed lines located throughout Lake Minnetonka. This day the weed lines that seemed to produce the best were near hard bottom or deeper water. Locate an area you think will produce and slowly work a drop shot through it. When you find them they tend to be schooled a little bit, so if you get one throw back in on the same spot and you might catch a few more.

Clayton reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Daiwa Tatula Series Spinning Rods - EOL on Deer Lake (2). Additional comments from this report: "Early mornings where the best find the big boulders and drop a half shell on them and have some fun! Anywhere from 3 feet of water all the way out to 30! "

Dean Taylor reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and Daiwa Tatula Series Spinning Rods - EOL on West Lake Okoboji. Additional comments from this report: "Water temp was 60. Smallmouth were spawn and post spawn phases. Fished rock to sand transitions looking for biggest boulders in 4 to 12 ft of water. Used a slow retrieve with Feider Fly while cruising the flats. Switched to smallie beaver on 1/4 oz jighead and robo worms on dropshot when fish were locked on beds."

Fishing the first wave of males on beds in ephram and sister bay with a drop shot with a short leader and the key bait was a 3” keitech goby color. Not fish caught were 3 3/4 pounds and a few were 4 1/4 pounds. Lost caught of 50-75 fish caught and returned right away to their beds. If fish didn’t bite the drop shot, I could follow up with pitching a white tube to fire them up. Fish were in 3-8 feet of water and water temps were 62 and sunny. Super fun day of fishing.

The dog days of summer is making the fish awfully picky now. I cranked a spybait and caught one to kick the day off, but the two I caught after that were done with the old reliable, summer drop shot bait, the KVD Dreamshot 4’. Target large boulder piles and sea walls, at least if you’re hitting Chicago like me, they’re loving to ambush at shade lines!

Chenchar Lee (CX ANGLING) reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and G. Loomis NRX+ Spinning Rods on Hugh Butler Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Water temps were higher than usual for this time of year and we still managed to find a couple on beds! The bass would turn away from EVERYTHING except the Berkley Gilly. as soon as we threw this in via dropshotting, they keyed in on it RIGHT AWAY and would just suck it in. the Trokar TK137 was KEY in keeping them pinned with such light line. we rigged the gilly with the hook going through nose and then out the side (NOT the top like a swimbait). "