I was just at the workbench making up some brush jigs for this evening and got to wondering if I am missing something.

We have a gazillion brush piles made by our conservation department and the corps of engineers not to mention what individuals put out. Many of these piles are made up of dozens of Christmas trees cemented in 55 gallon drums and dropped in big piles. Some really nice bass live there not to mention a lot of good walleye.

Most of these piles are in 20-40 fow and are 5-10' high. Dropping into them and/or fishing through them brush jigs and trigs are all I can ever get throuh 'cause I raise and lower the bait over every limb as I come through.

If any of you guys fish this way, do you have a method that I am overlooking?

I've never fished in a situation like this but I would think a dropshot w/ the hook texposed would also work. Just keep the leader between the bait and sinker  around 12" or less.  I do this when fishing matted grass, pitching into holes w/ a flipping stick matched w/ a shimano curado reel spooled up w/ 50lb braid and a 1/2oz  dropshot sinker.  This should also work in the trees w/ plenty of power to get the fish out of the trees. Try it and let me know how it goes k. 8-)

Thanks, I hadn't even considered that 'cause I usually dropshot with 8# line. Are you fishing this vertically or casting?

that makes alot of sense.  I'm going to have to try it too.

Just a little tip I have found works for me on dropshots if I am fishing vertical over cover is I try to keep a short leader 8 to 10 inches. If I am casting the DS rig I use a leader that is 12 to 14 inches it seems to work better for me.