mjkoter

Probably an easier option and honestly, I hadn't even thought of it. I suppose that I've always thought of drop shot as an above-type technique, sitting on the water. Since I've never fished it from shore or really seen anyone else, I wrote it off. Certainly worth a shot.

I'm new to the site, but certainly not fishing. I've been considering tacklemaking over these winter months, specifically soft plastics. What I am looking to accomplish is quite specific, maybe impossible, maybe just nonsense. I am hoping to get input from a couple of members who have already poured. As well as ideas from fisherman with more experience than myself who may have fished a similar product or seen a simpler solution. I have no access to watercraft, so I am reserved to fishing from shore. The bottom's of several ponds I fish are matted with a soft algae, which has a very mushy consistency. Texas rigged baits (weighted and weightless) produce fish when I am not pulling off globs of the stuff. I know that floating plastics are manufactured and sold, but I don't desire a bait to float, but rather "roll over the hills of algae", so to speak. A plastic that when rigged with a standard 3-0 offset Gamakatsu, it will not dive soo deeply into the algae that it becomes and indiscernible ball of green. Leading me to search for an answer and what I believe to be a possible solution. I was considering pouring my own plastics, but incorporate something, which will allow for the tip to be slightly more buoyant than its trailing body. Thinking that a retrieve (dragged, twitched) would be less likely to dive and able to remain in the strike zone longer. Taking it a step further, I though about the implications for crawfish and mimicking their defensive poses (pincers out and up). Soft plastics have the pincers outstretched and obviously they can move with retrieval, but I envision them rested out and upward while the tail is in contact with the pond floor. Once again, I have never poured, so I am not aware of any obvious challenges that would face me. My original thought was to incorporate something more buoyant, possibly a small piece of cork or foam within the pour. Maybe it would be possible to pour half, instill the "implant", and pour to completion after it had set? -Matt