Greeting and Happy Fourth All,

@JonB2 I am using weedless TRDs on a size #1 EWG with a small glass bead and a 1/64 oz bullet weight on 10 pound mono with a 4000 size spinning reel. This is my summer time solution for weeds and reeds. This configuration presents the small bait in a more gentle approach for the shallow-ish areas.

I'm typically a 4 pound mono UL gear user. During the summer months, things are a bit more 'western' so additional leverage is helpful.

My only downside is the overall weight of this setup. It is far heavier than my UL rigs. So, I have it handy and use it for those areas. Otherwise like for the rocky edges and ledges, I'm back to my UL rig(s).

I hope this helps. Be well, Cheers!

3/8oz. tungsten jig with the skirt cut finesse style and a 2.5in.RageTail chunk. I've gone 1/2oz. but the fall rate is a little too fast IMO.

My go to "power finesse", bait is a 1/8oz Tungsten bullet weight to a 4/0 Owner Cover Shot hook with a Zman Bang Stick. I usually fish it on a 7' 3" LMH/F with 15lb Tatsu. It's a very subtle presentation that falls slowly and stands up on the bottom. I don't move it much or very fast and it has caught me so many fish in tough conditions.

On no planet or in any universe, real or fake, would a drop shot be worded in the same association as power. It's not possible. You could rig up a chain with a shark hook and a hunk of meat with a bowling ball as a weight and call it a drop shot, but it's still not a power technique.

If a drop shot is power, then a rock bass is a real bass. Which we all know its really not.

@gim Since I can't ruin my own thread, this sequence happened pitching a dock with a jig on a mh caster earlier this spring. Only one good bass off it, and a bunch of wannabes! Lol

Wannabes. Lol that's a pretty good description for those things