I just got into drop shotting last season and, ever the tinkerer, decided to add a little twist to the traditional rigging.  I started using a shakey head jig as the weight vs. the tube style weight with the line clip.  Picked up a number of fish on the jig as well as a few on the French fry I was using above it.  With that success, I continued to improvise and tried something I've done with C-rigs. I used a 3/8oz. Terminator jig as the weight and a paddle tail worm in combination.  I would catch on the jig or the suspended worm depending on the fish's mood. From there, I'd  switch to either a heavier jig so I could maintain bottom contact and work a little faster, Or I'd opt for a swim jig or spinnerbait with a small blade that I could keep deep, but off the bottom/

Anyone else ever have success with something similar?

Good to hear about your success. However, in time, the odds may not necessarily be in your favor. Problem being is that the hook-set on a jig vs. a drop shot, are two distinctly different animations. Happy to see it appears to be working for you anyway.

For fun fishing I tie a sunfly about 12" up from the shakey head and another 12" up from that. I have never caught a big fish on it but catching 2 spots at once is fun on light tackle.

Good to hear about your success. However, in time, the odds may not necessarily be in your favor. Problem being is that the hook-set on a jig vs. a drop shot, are two distinctly different animations. Happy to see it appears to be working for you anyway.

x2.  Two vastly different hooksets.  I heard of this for the Power Drop Shot (Bubba or Power Shot). Seems to make more sense there.

The hookset on a light wire jig and a dropshot are not that different.

Innovative rigging, papajoe222. Glad you've had some success with it.

Actually, I've had success with using a jig as the wait.  Flip it under a boat dock, and slowly drag the jig.  It can be deadly.

That's pretty creative. It can't hurt to have two lures for the fish to bite, right?

If you are a numbers guy your odds are better that way.

Make sure to use a traditional t-rigged bait as your drop shot presentation instead of a nose hooked bait. Should make the hook set the same!

Jeff

Sounds somewhat like a mackerel rig with only one bait with a tube worm.  When I lived on Cape Cod we used them to catch tinker mackerel as bait for stripers.  The ones we used had a silver spoon with a hook instead of a bank sinker.  The plastic tubes were various colors, red, yellow, green, etc.