Y'all ever read a topic & think Well Duh!!!!

While reading five.bass.limit's Drop shotters.....gather around! when that little light went off.

I thought of a place I've always thrown jigging spoons, never tried a drop shot...ya dummy

To me that's one of the best things about this forum. You can get totally new ideas, but also makes you think about better ways to employ tactics you already use. 

Y'all ever read a topic & think Well Duh!!!!

While reading five.bass.limit's Drop shotters.....gather around! when that little light went off.

I thought of a place I've always thrown jigging spoons, never tried a drop shot...ya dummy

Your not alone Homer Your not alone.

Welcome to today's duh club.

I've stuck to the small hook drop shot rig for no good reason I can think of.  That is so unlike me.  All my life I've tried to build better mousetraps at whatever I do.  I love tinkering and experimenting.

Why I "played by the rules" for drop shotting is beyond me.  Maybe because it worked so well.  Now I'm wondering how many of the missed strikes I could have hooked.

Oh what might have been.  Well, I'm going to find out.

To me that's one of the best things about this forum. You can get totally new ideas, but also makes you think about better ways to employ tactics you already use.

I agree!

What it boils down to, is there are no "set" rules. I have been fishing over 50 years and can't believe all the new things I've learned on this forum. It's also helped me remember some techniques from the past.

Y'all ever read a topic & think Well Duh!!!!

While reading five.bass.limit's Drop shotters.....gather around! when that little light went off.

I thought of a place I've always thrown jigging spoons, never tried a drop shot...ya dummy

Old habits hard to break, uh ?

Not exactly d-shot nor jigging spoon in my case, Rapala jigging jerkbait, yup that kinda stuff them northern guys use to fish through holes in the ice, there ain 't a lot of iced lakes in my neck of the woods, one of those what if ? moments

Here's some irony for you.  I've left fish that simply would not bite a drop shot, tube, or jig.  Two days later, say to myself, "Why didn't you try a shorty spoon!!!!!"

Its not like I wasn't catching on those spots but with ability to offer two techniques instead of one I've greatly increased my odds of catching.

We are all creatures of habit. Sometimes we just have to force our selves to try a different technique. When I fish a certain type of structure, I try to have another technique in mind to try. That doesn't always work if your catching fish.