Everything you NEED to know about the DROPSHOT!?!?

[@jackstein5486]

Glad to see you back. Looking forward to you having a great finish this season!❤ Nice vid Bradley!

[@marklilly9145]

Best knot I've used, and i tie mine that same way. Once you learn it, you can tie it with your eyes closed, great video !!!

[@codyhooser3333]

Great video BH. Wishing you an the guys the best of luck finishing well up North. Y'all stay Healthy ❤

[@johnnymassengale6275]

Good to see you back here! I've caught fish on a Drop-Shot before, but it can be, and is, frustrating at times. This is a video I'll need to watch multiple times to figure that knot out.

[@ralphmiller9503]

Let’s Go Hallman!!! Rooting for you

[@janosczovek8524]

Fantastic video love this type of video thanks 👍

[@randywunderlich6315]

Great video, thanks for sharing your experience & knowledge!!!!

[@texoma_outdoors]

The dropshot has been the only consistent producer for me the last month or more

[@cpntexas_x]

Great Video! Love keeping it simple. Saw Ott on his channel introduce putting a loop in the line and hooking to his real handle, made all that much easier for me.

[@bobbycolson1957]

Glad your back.. and I need dropshot advice

[@fishaholic122]

Thanks Brad for taking the time!!

[@bhmsupra]

Incredible FB method - thanks Bradley

[@benbunting2491]

Whew, glad to see you back, I know its been a grinder season, but you are where you should be.

[@martyaustin6545]

Great video Hallman and good luck and win one buddy

[@jerzdev]

Like that method of knot tying, I’ll be giving that a shot later on, good video and info

[@rogermoore3270]

Glad to see you posting again 👍

[@larrystolzman9337]

Thank you! Awesome video!

[@Brizendine7]

Glad to see u back Hallman. I’m trying to learn a drop shot. Just got me A rod for it. Dobyns Kaden 712

[@spintowinstradic6067]

Good luck this week and next. I’m marshaling at the St Lawrence so I’ll be sure to say hi if I see you.

[@DaveHagan-xg4pz]

Good to see a video from ya Man! Hope you do well up North Bro

[@dirtracinfan1]

Great video, good luck at Champlain!

[@claywills4232]

Rooting for you. Hell of a first day at Champlain

[@paulbohn1971]

I just got on you tube I saw your video I watched it and enjoyed it so I just subscribed looking foward to seeing more thank you fore the advice it will help me get better love to you and yours Paul frome p.a

[@FISHWITHAPRO]

Great video! I love the drop shot!!

[@TheFishdoctor1952]

Good to hear/see you again. I'm sure we, your viewers,l have a hundred questions about this tournament season. Hope you finish strong.

[@nawinchester]

Good video Bradley! Hope all is going well for you on the tour right now. Keep fighting. Keep battling.

[@law1831]

On the arizona lakes, i really do well in the summer with a 6 inch roboworm, roboworm size 2 or size 1 rebarb light wire hook and straight 6lb fc sniper flouro. You just have to have a reel with a decent drag set a little loose and play the fish out

[@tomsales263]

been a couple of months, glad to see you back. love your info i guess i'm going to have to start trying to drop shot, i have always been a power kind of guy.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I'd guess we were using a 'drop shot' in the 1960's on the Missouri river to catch trout.

[@FISHWITHAPRO]

I cut a Sweet Beaver down the middle on my drop shot rig (green pumpkin). I've done real well in some major tournaments on Lake Champlain fishing it that way.

[@tobycarroll9416]

Yeah buddy!! I too am glad to see you back thanks for the dropshot video!!

[@leeclack4121]

I really like your way to tie the FG knot, couldn’t talk you into editing the knot out and reposting possibly 😊

[@Brizendine7]

Try out the spro pin tail minnow

[@High-techRedneckFishing]

The leader knot I use a fly knot tying tool. I use smack down braid to 10lb Invizix. Never had a knot fail. I do appreciate you taking your time to show us how you tie the knot you use.

[@donpreller484]

2 baits for you Brad. Reins bubbling shaker 5 inch for largemouth. Strike king baby z too. Elaztech material minnow profile for smallies

[@scottclark1168]

Good to see ya back buddy,drop shot has never been my favorite but over the last few years I use it alot more,it truly is a fish catching machine,good luck up north buddy 👊

[@Sweden_mike]

Great video as usual. Many thanks from Sweden

[@FWTBobber]

Great video!!!🔥🔥🔥 only thing I could think of that would make it better would have had Panger and Upshaw on as guest experts😂😂😂 jam packed with the juice. Quit telling these guys down south to use a drop shot you will ruin any sort of advantage I have been enjoying by using it in Louisiana and Texas. Good luck yo north. FINISH STRONG!

[@lenclark6099]

Great video, full of all the right information, and you made it very interesting!!!! When does,the new season get started? You and Greg Hackney are two of my favorite anglers!!!!

[@jasonhannah2999]

Dang Bud glad to see you back

[@academicmailbox7798]

I'd work with that elaztec baits a lot different to how other folks would do.

[@academicmailbox7798]

I know that techniques such as the Hover Stroller have taken off, and lots of anglers are happy with the discovery of that way to fish now. I'd do something with the minnow shaped bait. But it wouldn't be very like most riggings.

[@academicmailbox7798]

I would set aside a couple of rods and rig them up a bit different than drop shots or hover strollers. I'd use a straightened out hook like you would work with a needle for sewing with. I'd take my fishing line. Tie to the needle that I created. I would thread the fluorocarbon line down through the head of the minnow. And then come out with the needle somewhere underneath and to the mid-section of the bait. Pulling thread and needle the whole ways through the elaztec bait. What I'd then do is I'd cut off my needle and thread one or two tungsten beads on the fluorocarbon. And then re-tie a proper 'small' short-shank hook on the end of my fluorocarbon leader. Then I would thread my short shank hook back into the bottom of the bait in some way. Enough so that it held in place (a short shank hook with a small bait keeper pointing up to the eye of the hook would be ideal).

[@academicmailbox7798]

What that achieves is a small piece of tungsten weight underneath the soft plastic minnow. Which is actually outside of the soft plastic bait, but threaded on the fluorocarbon leader. And a small hook that is mounted underneath the soft plastic bait. And pointing down. Now what do I have? I have something like the long shank hook and elaztec lure that was shown. Except I've moved the weight and the small hook. To the mid-section of the lure. While the fluorocarbon line enters into the bait. From the top and just slightly back from the front nose of the bait. Like in the way that hover stroller rigging works. Except, unlike the hover stroller. Might weight is not up front. It's further bait. I would fish this thing by snapping it the odd time in the water. In the manner that one might snap a jerk bait through the water. Unlike a jerk bait lure though. This thing would go down deeper on it's own weight (the small piece of tungsten won't carry it to the bottom very fast). However, one could animate a quite interesting and slow journey to the bottom. Using a bait that does not sink very fast. The idea of having most of the hook and weight 'outside' of the elaztec material. Is that from a hooking to land ratio. I've found it best, if less of the hook is buried in the bait itself. That's the hitch with long-shank weighted hooks. Most of the metal that you need to land the fish. Is buried somewhere in the bait.

[@academicmailbox7798]

Another way to do it, might be to use a small treble hook (and the up-point of the treble is used to connect the hook to the elaztec underneath, leaving two treble hook points exposed). And the small tungsten bead in front of that treble hook on the fluorocarbon leader, prevents the hook point from getting jambed up inside the soft plastic. While also adding some strategically placed weight at the bottom side of the elaztec minnow lure. It's a kind of a 'line through' swim bait, done on a croppie size miniature scale. I'm surprised that croppie anglers like John Soukup have never used it for that species too. As I said, the rigging has some aspects of a hover stroller rigging to it too. Except I am putting the weight in a different location, to where hover strollers position there's (at the front). My weight is more underneath, outside the bait and at mid-section. Not at the front.

[@academicmailbox7798]

Listening to Todd talking about braided lines and frog fishing. I think what I'm talking about, is like a frog type of approach or bait (a bait that just happens to be beneath the surface when it swims, but one throws it on straight braid like a frog). But sized down a bit in line diameter quite a bit. It is essential though, a swimbait, frog bait, braided line thing for species like small mouth bass. Small mouth should have it's own equivalent to the frog bait in large mouth fishing. I think, is what I'm trying to say.

[@dalejohnston9422]

good info. Great to see you back to making videos.

[@spencercline1957]

Good luck up north. I just started fishing a Dropshot last year and I started throwing a yum finesse worm 5” in watermelon seed in middle Tennessee. And as I was learning how to fish it and was catching fish it became my confidence plastic lol but glade seeing you post a new video and good luck up north bubba

[@chrisflay7806]

Glad to see you back Brad. Not a fan of that hook, like the Ryugi fog shot in size 2. Other great baits, original Berkley gulp minnow and fry, Yamamoto shad shape worm, jackal cross tail shad and xzone slammer. Good luck up north.

[@paulconder26]

Don’t like that hook. Not enough gap between hook point and eye. Love the technique for the knot.

[@roc_on_bassin3293]

FG knot on all me spinning gear and thank on a new way to tie it I appreciate you how the boys doing I haven’t seen y’all in a video together I a while if you was my apologies

[@wildbillwassmann6593]

Great video Brad! How important is the distance between your hook and the weight? For me its important, Bottom hardness, cover (grass, rock,) etc.. help me me adjust thru the day. My starting point is a foot to 16'' i've gone down to 2'' and up to 4'.. from hook to weight.

[@jtorres133]

What knot are you tying on your hook???

[@Larry77777]

Most likely Palomar knot, then poke the tag end down through from the top of the hook eye before attaching the weight (makes the hook sit horizontal)

[@ralphmiller9503]

Yeah probably Palomar. My son just ties a uni. You can still put the tag end through the hook with just about any knot👍

[@jtorres133]

@@Larry77777 right. Yeah I used that for a while. My friend showed me a really great knot which keeps the hook perpendicular to the main line like you want it. I’ve lost some fish this year and I’m not sure if it’s this new knot I’m using. Lost fish last year on a drop shot like more than I cared to lose. Im just trying to break it down because I feel like my line rod reel and hook set up is good.

[@charlesmayberry7034]

I had brake go out need the name of the boat shop

[@randycreason3399]

I've been having issues with the half hitch knots coming unraveled through a day of fishing. Have you experienced this? I'm not sure if it's micro guides or the brand of braid or what the deal is.

[@ralphmiller9503]

Maybe brand of braid🤷‍♂️

[@fishncoach8699]

Also glad to see you back. I tie the FG very similar but I keep a light tension on the braid and keep the fluorocarbon with tension as well (must be more tension than the braid). The tension allows it to seat into position faster and slip less when you tighten. I usually tie the loop around the handle but hook keeper works well in some rods. All that matters is that you have confidence in the knot when it's done! Will definitely be checking out that rod