What is Dropshot?
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Dropshot was always known as using a "soft plastic" imitation rigged up from a sinker that you bounce along the bottom. South African style dropshot uses the same type of bait or "soft plastics" but with a ledhead or jighead. Although you can rig up a soft plastic like the bass fisherman do in our waters the sort of fish we target on minnow style soft plastics prefer the faster more erratic retrieve that is unachievable with an oldschool rig....
Minnows style dropshots can be bounced slowly along the bottom, quickly up and down the water columns like vertical jigging and slow, medium or fast in any water the same way you would work a spoon with a slightly more jerky action.
The crustacean style dropshots (crabs lice worms shrimp worms etc) are usually worked very slowly along the bottom or left to drift about in the wash in a gully or moving water of some kind.
Minnows style dropshots can be bounced slowly along the bottom, quickly up and down the water columns like vertical jigging and slow, medium or fast in any water the same way you would work a spoon with a slightly more jerky action.
The crustacean style dropshots (crabs lice worms shrimp worms etc) are usually worked very slowly along the bottom or left to drift about in the wash in a gully or moving water of some kind.
Matt bru have you caught anything on that sandworm? I have some 7.5inch bloodworm type dropshot burning a hole in my tackle box. They look the same as that sandworm, would they work? As you know, Im quite anti-dropshot and belive nothing is better than the real thing, but I still want to give my dropshot a good workout and see what all the hype is about
surfaMIKE wrote:
i still think they too wide...but maybe if you trim them...
i also think you should use either camo, blood, or new penny...seem to mimic the natural thing better...
you wont have as much success as you would with a berkley one though....2nd choice is a McCarthy bristle worm...but still, not the best!
i still think they too wide...but maybe if you trim them...
i also think you should use either camo, blood, or new penny...seem to mimic the natural thing better...
you wont have as much success as you would with a berkley one though....2nd choice is a McCarthy bristle worm...but still, not the best!
Howzit BigMatt
It seems like you know your way around the whole dropshop scene! I dont know, currently I own a whole rainbow of soft plastics and lures but the only sucsess I had was with chad on a frenzy at Maphelane. I dont know, at this stage I really feel as if the lures were desighned to catch me. I think my confidence is still a bit 2 low to the lures in the shallows compared to a smelly bait.
It seems like you know your way around the whole dropshop scene! I dont know, currently I own a whole rainbow of soft plastics and lures but the only sucsess I had was with chad on a frenzy at Maphelane. I dont know, at this stage I really feel as if the lures were desighned to catch me. I think my confidence is still a bit 2 low to the lures in the shallows compared to a smelly bait.