Dropshotting Bluegills in SW VA

[drb]

Fished a farm pond in Franklin Co. early this morning. No specs. There a lot of bluegill and small bass. I had always thrown little tiny rubber stuff, spinners, and fished with floats and aberdeen hooks. This morning I drop shotted for em and it was a lot of fun. caught maybe 20 all in the 7-9" range. My setup is a #4 or #6 circle hook about 8 inches above a split shot. I know a flat that tapers down to about 10-12 FOW near the dam. Figured I would start there and walk the drop shot bait down the slope till I found them. Caught them about half way down pretty quickly. Small pieces of worm and tiny curly tail jigs both were effective. Very fun to try a new technique. If you kept tension on the line, you could effectively keep a bait right off the bottom until you got a bite. The circle hooks worked perfectly.



Here is my set up and a cookie cutter 8"er



When I fish this pond I always keep 8 or 10 for a wonderful breakfast...

[Barnacle Bill]

Nice mess of gills.

[Percidae_Papermouth]

Beautiful Pond! Sounds like a winning technique. I like to use a three way swivel with a 3/16 oz bass casting sinker. Also a 4 inch creme worm on a gold aberdeen with a split shot about 12 inches up the line, take the same set up but replace the splitshot with a strike indicator and its a hot ticket on a flyrod. Good report!

[Boscoe]

Nice looking pond. Worm and a hook fishing from shore, isn't that how we all started and it's still works!

[papermouth scaler]

Nice looking pond. Worm and a hook fishing from shore, isn't that how we all started and it's still works!

Why fix it if it aint broke Thumbs Up nice job

[JET4]

nice pond I like to fish like that

[Patrick14]

Nice looking pond. Worm and a hook fishing from shore, isn't that how we all started and it's still works!

So true! When all else fails, this is still the best go to method.