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Best Dropshot Weight

Omnia collects thousands of detailed fishing reports from anglers across the country to power our local recommendations. Here are the top Weights recommendations for using the Drop Shot technique mentioned in fishing reports from anglers near you.

WOO! Tungsten Drop Shot Weight - Cylinder Shape

$4.69 – $7.29

Reported by
Jake Kaiser

Lake of the Isles (MN)

found some good fish along the weed edges in 10-16 feet of water pitching a drop shot. Nose hooking a Hula Stick with about a 12" lead on above the weight.

Reported by
Michael Rekas

Lake of the Isles (MN)

Michael Rekas reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and WOO! Tungsten Drop Shot Weight - Cylinder Shape on Lake of the Isles. Additional comments from this report: "Fishing a drop-shot around shallow targets and the edge of grass lines has caught good numbers with a couple quality fish in between. Small roll casts and flips have got the job done, the tighter you can get to cover the better. "

Reported by
SnowtaBass

Crystal Lake (84) (MN)

On Crystal Lake locate the deeper weed lines 10-15ft. Ideally locating milfoil or coon tail as the main vegetation. Using a VMC finesse neko hook, Texas-rig the plastic to be more weedless. Work the drop shot down the whole weed line until you get bites. Once you catch a fish there is a good chance there are multiple in the area so be sure to work the area over well before moving on. This should produce a decent number of fish with some quality ones mixed in.

WOO! Tungsten Drop Shot Weight - Tear Drop

$4.69 – $7.29

Reported by
Michael Rekas

Pool 1 Mississippi (MN)

Took a day trip to the river in mid-august to try and find some smallmouth. With the water being low bank access was much easier. The drop shot and shakey head were the ticket. With the water down and slow current fish seemed to be scattered. We caught them up and down the bank and fish seemed to be holding in the main river tight to the bottom. Dragging a shakey head or shaking a drop-shot caught small numbers, with the occasional 2-2.5 lber. Moral of the story is, don't overlook Minneapolis' urban fisheries!

Reported by
plymouthfishingnick

Lotus Lake (MN)

plymouthfishingnick reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and WOO! Tungsten Drop Shot Weight - Tear Drop on Lotus Lake. Additional comments from this report: "8/24 Overall relatively slow, couple of quality bites "

Reported by
Ben Demo

Lake Minnetonka (MN)

Tonka has been rough for crappie because of my experience but the water temp was 58-61 in different parts of the lake so I decided to go fish very shallow dock pilings in small pockets hidden from main lake. With a good pair of sunglasses and being quiet with the trolling motor me and my partner were able to get in without spooking all the fish, I used a 14 inch drop shot leader to keep the bait high in the water so the crappie can see it and most of my fish were caught lightly shaking the bait to keep it up. The picture I took was a bass in the same pocket because all my crappie ended up in the live well LOL.

VMC Tungsten Drop Shot Weight

$7.29 – $8.49

Reported by
Fat belly Goat

Lake Minnetonka (MN)

Fat belly Goat reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and VMC Tungsten Drop Shot Weight on Lake Minnetonka. Additional comments from this report: "Looked for deeper clumps of tall coon tail and milfoil on main points and some off shore structure 14'-20' these areas had lots of gills around"

Reported by
SZMTTRS

Lake Minnetonka (MN)

SZMTTRS reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and VMC Tungsten Drop Shot Weight on Lake Minnetonka. Additional comments from this report: "Dropshoting rocks 🪨 and reefs "

Reported by
Hunter Brenny

Lake Minnetonka (MN)

Hunter Brenny reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Drop Shot technique and VMC Tungsten Drop Shot Weight on Lake Minnetonka. Additional comments from this report: "Cast out as far as you can and keep hopping it on the rocks"

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