THE BASS COLLEGE

Instead of tying a lead weight to the bottom of the drop shot, try a weighted tube. this gives the fish a choice and will let you know what they prefer faster. Fish it this way for 10 or 15 minutes, then switch one out or both until you find the right combination.

interesting concept

have to try that at Lake Anna

great idea

I used to use such a drop shot technique long before I even knew their was such a name to it.  Things like this you just learn from older people when you're a kid.  Mostly it was all about fishing, and sometimes it's about fishing ontop of very snaggy bottoms or very weedy bottoms that algea or zebra mussles overrunned.  So most of the time it's river fishing.

Typically we have split shots or rubber core sinkers on the dropper line.  In many cases, it's an Aberdeen hook or a typical barbed Baithook because we use live bait.  Well the technique worked well for basically all types of fish we were after: Crappies, Catfish, Carp, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegills, Whitebass, Walleyes.  At times we would loop the main line and simply thread that loop around the hook.  The full knotted rig actually involved a Palomar knoted hook then the main line is Surgeons Loop knotted with regards to a long dropper end for the sinkers.  This allowed the hook to be offset a little further from the mainline and virtually any hook could potentially be tied to stand upright.  Only after lots of knot tying practices to figure just how to set the rig up properly.  The live bait rig didn't just stop there.  It went on to include many soft plastics, feathered jigs, and for the diehard who cared to really work a floating hardbait on the line long before suspended baits were aplenty.  Nowadays, I mostly reserve it to live bait and soft plastics.  I still remember how well those floating rapalas caught fish, so it's always on my mind.

This is how I tied my drop shot rig before I learn the name for it.

Thanks man. This is good info, especially for young guys.

About 15 years ago a guy fishing a champion boats championship on Table Rock showed me  a drop shot rig but he called it a california rig. I laughed as I flipped my jig and he out fished me.

When I fish a drop shot I use 6lb line, a small gamakatsu drop shot hook, and either a 3" senko or a zoom finesse worm.  With this setup I have my best hookup percentage with a reel-set and not a normal hook set.  If I had a tube on the bottom I doubt I would catch many of the bites and then I would start setting the hook more and losing the drop shot fish.  It seems like a good idea if you can tell which lure they are biting but it also sounds like a good way to confuse a "numbers" presentation that already puts tons of fish in the boat.

We can't double rig lures on a sinlge fishing line in the state of Minnesota. 

That does seem like a great idea. Now do you add a swivel to to bottom to attach another tube?