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Drop shot - Casting or Spinning?

Drop shot poll 36 members have voted

  1. 1. How do you Drop-shot?

    • Casting
      15%
      5
    • Spinning
      84%
      27

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  • Super User

Due to several wrist injuries/surgeries, I switched over to all baitcasting... except drop-shotting... hard for me to get the right action/control. I find you need the extra dexterity of a spinning rod to get the right subtle, finesse action.  Bubba shot - yes, that I can get away with on a baitcaster...

  • Super User
8 minutes ago, dodgeguy said:

I do everything on casting gear.

I do too. I don't really fish a drop shot but if I did it would be on casting gear.

  • Super User

I fish EVERYTHING on casting gear, except a drop shot. :)

  • Super User

I'm the weirdo again.

 

I do quite a bit on spinning...including skipping jigs, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits.

 

If it's a finesse technique...for me it's spinning. (drop-shot, ned, wacky, shaky, neko....)

  • Super User
2 minutes ago, Jeffrey Walker said:

Why?  just curious to understand.  Why not on Casting?

I am WAY more patient with a spinning rig in my hand. 

 

I can't make myself slow down enough with casting gear.

  • Super User

For me nose hooked drop shot = spinning, T-rigged drop shot = casting. Never a good time when your nose hooked soft plastic flies off with a baitcaster.

  • Super User
8 hours ago, dodgeguy said:

I do everything on casting gear.

 

Ditto ?

 

The only thing close to spinning gear I have is a Zebco 33 Authentic Platinum.

  • Super User

Spinning gear ~

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A-Jay 

  • Super User

Both....

 

BC for Bubba Shot and deep presentations and when Triged

 

Spinning for everything else.

 

That said, as I find BC rods with similar feels or spinning rods, I will more in that direction.  It's a matter of arthritis and pain for me

 

 

  • Super User

Mostly spinning but rarely casting. 

  • Super User

Spinning.  Mainly because my spinning reels are on my lightest rods.  And this is for when I have to cast extremely light lures, like ned rigs and small balsa cranks.  But typically when I use a drop shot, it has a decent sized weight because I'm using fishing in 20+ FOW.  So I could get away with a casting reel, if I had a medium light rod to pair with it.  

  • Super User

100% spinning.  here's why.  leader length and my sinker.  my rod NEEDS to have a bait keeper hook way down on the handle.  that way I can keep my sinker clipped in and that puts the bait and hook right above the reel, typically.    lobbing the bait:  you know that hunting technique that Aboriginal folks use?  two weights on tied together with a cord, that they throw into the legs of running prey to trip them up?  well, my bait and sinker are like that.  ask the goose I "Bolas-ed" as it flew into my cast.  I use a more gentle lob to cast further.  the drop shot is not a bait I just drop straight down..I like to cast it out there, and jiggle it back.  the spinning cast lets me not tangle the entire bait presentation up.  my drop shots are light!!  my hook sets are "love taps" compared to my bait cast hooksets.   

 

I use light braid with a light flouro leader to feel that ever so slight "tap" of a bass eating my bait.  gah..I love drop shot fishing.  

  • Super User

Primarily casting gear @Jeffrey Walker just because of where I primarily fish. The California delta can be a very target oriented fishery. Throwing (pitching) a jig, Texas rig, stick bait or dropshot on casting gear can be pretty much interchangeable and allows more control over the cast in my opinion. 
If you primarily fish a lake where casting distance and/or a vertical presentation is needed a spinning rod would be the better choice. YMMV

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  • Super User

Mostly spinning, but I won’t hesitate to use a casting setup. So both!

  • Super User

Spinning because using 5 to 7 lb copoly or FC line in clear water and rarely cast a drop shot more then 30’ usually drop it straight down.

Tom 

I use casting gear for all things except a Ned Rig. I'm going to be getting into drop shotting and that will be on spinning gear with the Neds as well. The only reason for the spinning is because I haven't quite talked myself into spending the coin on BFS. Cheap BFS sounds like a nightmare.

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