... a "Yankee rig" aka "upside-down Carolina rig" - I bet you have and probably don't know it.

Here's the deal - my wife and I have been cleaning out our basement and garage and I discovered a box full of old BassMaster magazines mixed in with a bunch of other stuff that I had forgotten about.  I pulled them out and started looking through them last night while she was watching the Bachelorette    In one of them was an "inventive idea" submitted by a reader - he referred to it as a Yankee righ or upside-down Carolina rig - I looked at the picture and discovered that what he was talking about was a "drop shot".  Now being an old southern boy (if I can still claim that after living in the Mid-west for 30+ years) I probably would have glossed over the yankee part but I had seen this used as a "drop shot" about 3 years before and it was being hearlded as a California technique.

This was sort of like an early Christmas present, finding those old magazines.  If you have any laying around, it can be fun to go through them and see what was "hot" back then and how things have evloved.

KOOL.  

How old were the mags?

Dropper loop rigs have been around forever and used in salt water fishing.

The first drop shot rigs were called down shot and came from Japan to California in the early 80's. We started to fish the down shot rigs with 2 worms about a foot apart, more are not legal in California. Then the rig was refined and became known as a drop shot rig.

WRB

this particular one was May of 1999 - the "tip" being suggested had to do with tying a surgeon's loop at the end of the tag line and then attaching a split shot to avoid losing your "bullet sinker, glass bead and swivel clip".  But it also indicted that having a loop knot at the end of the tag gave you a place to attach the rig to your reel when not being used - this makes a lot of sense.

Beleive it or not i have used it, like where there are deep rock drop offs. And i can say that it does work.

Bill Binkleman was using the drop shot way back in the 60's for walleye. It's amazing that everything new is really everything old!  

"There is nothing new under the sun", Soloman