Thread: Drop shotting for bream

The drop shot works on everything. When crappie are holding tight to cover it is the best way.

Originally Posted by shooter

let me say at the start being 60 yrs old and a fly fisherman for 51 of those years ship,i must respectfully disagree on one point.
i have caught many gills and chinks tight-lining with a fly-rod with both flies and live bait on the bottom.
i roll a bait no weight or some times a bb shot,let it sink and sit,sometimes it takes more than five or ten minutes for a chink to pick up live bait, or crawling a estaz shrimp or crawfish an inch at a time on the bottom for 30 ft or more before the take.
although i do agree that sometimes it takes what you do to catch fish ,i am new to the drop shot method ,and first herd of it here.i can say beyond a shadow of a doubt it works and well.



"Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught."

Yeppir. It does. I grew up tightlining or as the young whippersnappers of today call as modified "drop shot."