big fish on dropshot

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aquadementia

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nicos wrote:
Fin-S wrote:
I don't get this whole dropshot thing. We have been fishing weighted hooks for over 40 years. Some older, more well travelled anglers may remember the Eddystone eel, fishing weighted soft tailed jigs for cod, pollack etc on deep wrecks, crimping a splitshot onto a size 4 and casting a plastic crab to bones. The recent emergence of a new name for an old style is just a bit of marketing.
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LOL - that takes me back to my many years on the Isle of Man. Except that you always had to battle through the coalfish the get to the pollock, and what you really wanted was ling or cod. Not only was some of the lures a dead ringer for what is now called dropshot, some of them where replicas for what is now called jigging.

But still - nothing beats a nice strip of mackerel, or a live sand eel even better.

Art-lure is as it says on the tin, it's an art and a challenge and that is why people do it.

 
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I take it the coalfish you're referring to were generally not this size ;)
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P.S. were there many 'Caine's on the Isle of Man? its where my dads family originates, always wanted to visit...
 
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nicos

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aquadementia wrote:
nicos wrote:
Fin-S wrote:
I don't get this whole dropshot thing. We have been fishing weighted hooks for over 40 years. Some older, more well travelled anglers may remember the Eddystone eel, fishing weighted soft tailed jigs for cod, pollack etc on deep wrecks, crimping a splitshot onto a size 4 and casting a plastic crab to bones. The recent emergence of a new name for an old style is just a bit of marketing.
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LOL - that takes me back to my many years on the Isle of Man. Except that you always had to battle through the coalfish the get to the pollock, and what you really wanted was ling or cod. Not only was some of the lures a dead ringer for what is now called dropshot, some of them where replicas for what is now called jigging.

But still - nothing beats a nice strip of mackerel, or a live sand eel even better.

Art-lure is as it says on the tin, it's an art and a challenge and that is why people do it.

 
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I take it the coalfish you're referring to were generally not this size ;)
pim_coalfish.jpg


P.S. were there many 'Caine's on the Isle of Man? its where my dads family originates, always wanted to visit...
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hell no!

Regarding the Caines - pleny of them. Especially in Ramsey. You should go, it's... different :)
 
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Burtie

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sven wrote:
sushi wrote:
Thats exactly what i thought--so what exactly is the point of dropshot fishing. You spend a fortune on expensive gear to catch tiny fish that are no challenge and even too small to eat.
 I think this whole dropshot thing is a money making gimmick....
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I have seen Weasley catch a 30-40kg Kingie on 7" minnow from the shore in Kosi Bay area. So put in the time and the possibility of catching the big one is very real.

No gimmick
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Ditto. Check out the Blackfin Dropshot DVD's. Awesome. I think that Kingy might even have been bigger that the above weight. If memory serves, Rob also caught a couple of "bigguns"
 
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Cam Mundy

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I've always found drop shot to be fun over shallow reefs as you never know what to expect with every pull it's something new. on the other hand once you've fed the ocean your packet of dropshot and to switch to a buck tail you have just as much fun and you lue will last many fishing trips with a bit of luck.
As for fishing from the side I've flogged the ocean like S&M fanatic and haven't had any noteworthy results compared to spoons and surface lures.
 
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Cpt. Hook

Sealiner
Cam Mundy wrote:
I've always found drop shot to be fun over shallow reefs as you never know what to expect with every pull it's something new. on the other hand once you've fed the ocean your packet of dropshot and to switch to a buck tail you have just as much fun and you lue will last many fishing trips with a bit of luck.
As for fishing from the side I've flogged the ocean like S&M fanatic and haven't had any noteworthy results compared to spoons and surface lures.
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IMHO dropshot, bucktail, spoons, lures etc is all the same thing LIGHT TACKLE SPINNING
 
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Craig.fish

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Drop shot is alive and well guys.....Take yesterday for instance...Myself and Ray hit the water on the boat at around 11a.m....fished Durban South Pier and then some shallow 10m reef off the bluff......Big Eye Kingfish, Black Tip Kingfish, Bluefin Kingfish, Garfish, Needlescale Queenfish and a Rockcod and we were back on the docks by 2:30 pm.....All this while, many anglers on the water fishing dead / live bait and plenty spearos all reported no fish....Sure, our fish were on the small side, but on 4lb braid and an 8lb leader, its good sport....And its in the middle of Winter.....
 
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Guest

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Craig.fish wrote:
Drop shot is alive and well guys.....Take yesterday for instance...Myself and Ray hit the water on the boat at around 11a.m....fished Durban South Pier and then some shallow 10m reef off the bluff......Big Eye Kingfish, Black Tip Kingfish, Bluefin Kingfish, Garfish, Needlescale Queenfish and a Rockcod and we were back on the docks by 2:30 pm.....All this while, many anglers on the water fishing dead / live bait and plenty spearos all reported no fish....Sure, our fish were on the small side, but on 4lb braid and an 8lb leader, its good sport....And its in the middle of Winter.....
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you guys are spoiled - hahahaha. Can you ask Ray when is he going to update his Sardine blog?
 
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Michel

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It works for sure, in fact I sometimes have more luck with the drop shot than spinning, I only fish with arteficial lures and some of my best catches were made on drop shot, prefer the berkly range, attached some caught with dropshot gear from the side, got the King fish at Winkel spruit and the Tarpon at Umkomaas.

Good luck!
 

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Michel

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Hey Graig, cheers,  no certainly not in numbers but they seem to be hangin around Umkomaas Mouth in summer..
You fish that area at all?
 
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Craig.fish

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Use Umko as a regular launch site but have never really explored it from an artificial point of view.....Might be worthwhile in Summer to head down and see whats happening!
 
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yusufessack@vodamail.co.za

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we all have choices choose the one that best suites you......just bought my self 2 drop shot rigs still trying to get the hang of it, but use a gulp worm when elf are thick even as throw bait u get picked.... so find out what works for you and go with that.
fishing structures and features makes a diff see alcocks dvd's.
 
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miles

Sealiner
I've tried the drop shotting and can with-out ANY doubt say that fishing with BAIT will outfish drop shotting 99% of the time, here in the Cape.

What IS drop shotting?? Bass tackle, using light lines (braid) and bass styled plastics to catch fish. Flavoured bass worms have been available for more than 15 years already!! I've tried flavoured plastic worms in the ocean more than 10 years ago. So, WHAT exactly makes drop shotting a NEW technique?

Many of the fishing DVD's show anglers in exotic locations fishing with drop shot and landing a HUGE variety of species. NEVER does one see another angler fishing the same place with fresh natural bait.........

I can't say that i agree with the drop shotting ethos, whereby SMALLER juvenile specimens are targetted and caught. WHY would one WANT to target small juvenile species? How many of those fish DIE due to poorly handled fish, gill hooked fish, stress, etc,etc.

Sure, some big fish have been taken on drop shot, but how many MORE big fish have been taken on bait and other artificials?

Drop shotting is merely a different FORM of fishing. Not the MOST EFFECTIVE form, merely a different style of fishing.

The marketing guys sure know how to make money off us gullable anglers.........
 
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