Thread: Drop shot for Bream. anyone using this tactic here?

good for lakes, you cant beat a beetle spin on a pond.

Originally Posted by 32251

New member. Was looking for some Bream fishing info and found the crappie.com site and this section. Great info here!!


Been doing some drop shot fishing for bream. Anyone else here using this technique? Small bell weight on end of line and a hook or multiple hooks tied at different lengths above that with a Palomar knot. Bait them with your favorite and toss it out with no bobber. I love the direct line feel of the fish biting. This is a great tactic to find crackers in deeper water.

Like to hear from any one doing this with any info to share.

Well, I gave the drop shot method a try Saturday morning. Didn't start until around 9 am and it was already hot by then. Found some 10 to 12 ft. water and fished a red worm on the bottom hook and a cricket on the top one. On about the 3rd cast I caught a decent size gill on the cricket. A couple of casts later I lost a nice fish on the red worm. I would like to think it was a nice shellcracker. After about an hour I had managed to hang up twice and broke the line both times. It was so hot by then I decided to call it a day.

I will definitely give this another try in early morning or late afternoon.

I have used a modified drop shot in deeper water. Mostly I use a slip float and adjust the stop knot for the depth I want to fish.

Originally Posted by 32251

New member. Was looking for some Bream fishing info and found the crappie.com site and this section. Great info here!!


Been doing some drop shot fishing for bream. Anyone else here using this technique? Small bell weight on end of line and a hook or multiple hooks tied at different lengths above that with a Palomar knot. Bait them with your favorite and toss it out with no bobber. I love the direct line feel of the fish biting. This is a great tactic to find crackers in deeper water.

Like to hear from any one doing this with any info to share.

Sorry, thats nothing new I've used that method for over 50 yrs. Trout in lakes, crappie, perch, bullheads, channel catfish and the list goes on. Brim mostly on a floating fly like a spider pattern. My dad taught me that way when I was a kid. Using this method while bait fishing, nightcrawers.

I Use This Tactic For Fishing Water Over 20 Feet Deep

Sounds like fun,will have to try it.

Used this method for catfishing ever since I started fishing as a kid. Been using this technique for blue gill each spring fishing off the top of dam on local lake for the last 30 years or so. That is about the only time I bream fish. There is some art to this technique. I have seen some pretty frustrated people who were fishing next to me and not catching nearly as many fish...

I have found that a lot of times the gills do not like resistance when they first touch the bait. I'd be really tempted to have at least 2 or 3 inches of leader or a maybe a dropper loop to the hook from the main line if I'm fishing with a weight on the bottom.

Another bottom fishing technique is no weight. I like to cast out and let it sink like a pendulum. The slow fall of the bait seems to get their interest, as well as a worm crawling on the edge of a drop off. No weight prevents hang ups.