Drop Shot Dragging Minners

[DockShootinJack]

All this talk about minnows reminds me I need to get the tank cleaned up and ready to stock with minnows

[skiptomylu]

It's been a while, but I use to do that a lot even night fishing. However you better have a rubber net or that drop sinker is going to get so tangled in a regular net, you may say some curse words, lol!

I like fishing like that with minnows a lot, but I also like taking it one step farther and in place of a weight I like to tie on a heavy jig, like 1/8 or 1/4 oz and then it's weight and bait. The fish can choose between minnow and jig!

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[DockShootinJack]

It's been a while, but I use to do that a lot even night fishing. However you better have a rubber net or that drop sinker is going to get so tangled in a regular net, you may say some curse words, lol!

I like fishing like that with minnows a lot, but I also like taking it one step farther and in place of a weight I like to tie on a heavy jig, like 1/8 or 1/4 oz and then it's weight and bait. The fish can choose between minnow and jig!

Skip

Good point

[DrNip]

That would work if I was just holding the drop shot there on them but I’m dragging my hook/minnow through the brush pile so adding an additional jig would be a nightmare and hang up city. I cast past the brush pile and let sink to bottom then drag my minnow from one side of the bottom of the pile to the other side top of the pile. This technique is when they are buried in the pile. If they were on top then would be a different story.

[Rojo]

Your post makes Crappie.com a necessity to read. Thank you for sharing, this is "NEW to Me" style of fishing!

[Ketchn]

Probably wouldn't survive the trip. Pretty rough on jigs as well.

you have to "worm" rig them on a jig head ,run the jig hook right up thru the middle of them , many a minnow has been expired by me and my use of them as a plastic replacement in the past , a slow falling under the dock fresh dead bleeding minnow WILL GET BIT

[DockShootinJack]

you have to "worm" rig them on a jig head ,run the jig hook right up thru the middle of them , many a minnow has been expired by me and my use of them as a plastic replacement in the past , a slow falling under the dock fresh dead bleeding minnow WILL GET BIT

Never thought of it that way

[skiptomylu]

That would work if I was just holding the drop shot there on them but I’m dragging my hook/minnow through the brush pile so adding an additional jig would be a nightmare and hang up city. I cast past the brush pile and let sink to bottom then drag my minnow from one side of the bottom of the pile to the other side top of the pile. This technique is when they are buried in the pile. If they were on top then would be a different story.

Oh yeah going though brush pulling or pushing will not work with a jig on bottom. Heck even a sinker can get hung in brush at times. Much of my fishing that set up was just tight lining over and around brush and even then sometimes I get hung up. However I also catch most of the larger fish on the jig when using that rig. Maybe as much as 75% to 80% of the larger fish hit the jig. One late evening the wife and I went out doing this and we only had about an hour or a touch more. We caught 28 crappie, only 8 were 10" keepers and all of the keepers came on the jig.

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[DrNip]

Oh yeah going though brush pulling or pushing will not work with a jig on bottom. Heck even a sinker can get hung in brush at times. Much of my fishing that set up was just tight lining over and around brush and even then sometimes I get hung up. However I also catch most of the larger fish on the jig when using that rig. Maybe as much as 75% to 80% of the larger fish hit the jig. One late evening the wife and I went out doing this and we only had about an hour or a touch more. We caught 28 crappie, only 8 were 10" keepers and all of the keepers came on the jig.

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This is how I use to spider rig when I rid. Minnow on top and jig on bottom.

[FishCrank]

My favorite method of bass fishing has been using a plastic worm & dropshot setup on northern natural lakes. However, I haven't tried the dropshot method for crappies on the bottom on southern reservoirs. On my last outing near DFW, I could see via Livescope many crappies hugging the bottom of the lake both in the brush piles and scattered around them. Holding a jig over them in the brushpiles brought many strikes but I failed to get strikes or catch any laying on the bottom outside of the brushplles. Your minnow/dropshot approach might be the answer to catching the many nearby crappies laying on the bottom. Thanks DrNip for your info.