Dropshot walleyes when they won't eat ANYTHING else

[Music] i don't know about you but we have been graphing tons of walleyes the last couple weeks they're everywhere but they will not bite they're stubborn they're fussy they're walleyes being walleyes until you bust out the power finesse the drop shot way to fish fast put that bait in front of their face and move it really slow let's take a little look at the components catch a few walleyes six pound test but we're gonna clean a couple of these tonight and that is the perfect heater we'll drop shot in the snout there we go bumping this off spot lock like that really good at catching tons of fish but you get a lot of small ones mixed in we're gonna have this one to launch so just drop shots are just a super efficient way to fish fast but finesse keep your bait right in front of their nose my go-to setup is a little number two finesse nico hook it's got this little floral carbon keeper on there that's made for plastics but if you shove that knife crawler up over that and over your knot it helps keep it up i'll run a full crawler sometimes i'll pinch off a third of it run a 12 to 18 inch dropper depending how high you're seeing them on bottom and i like doing a 3 8 ounce weight that egg style is just universal for rocks or weeds or whatever uh i'm running six pound test for my leader today like a 20 foot liter clear water fussy fish and just light line trying to get more bites but the whole thing with the drop shot is just you can fish slow and keep it right in their face you know that that bait isn't laying on bottom you're not fishing it too fast it's right in front of their face so you catch a lot of small fish doing it but it's really good and efficient for just covering water but fishing slow and getting bites another thing i like about that finesse niko you can see it's a longer shank hook i like that it gets that bait away from that line if you run just a typical standard little circle hook when that fish is grabbing that worm they're getting the mouth full of line at the same time and i've just found better hookup ratios with that longer shank hook and with that thin sticky little finesse hook you don't do a big giant hook set what i'm doing is just a reeling hook set letting the rod load up almost like a slip bobber or like a lindy rig or something you know you're not just cracking them like you're popping a jig just slowly reel into them and once you're about half loaded then you can kind of lean as you do a sweeping reel and with that nico hook you lose so few fish the hook-up ratio is just insane and as far as working the bait if i'm using a crawler it's hard but you got to just slow down that crawler's going all over the place i'm so used to uh working a drop shot as a bass fisherman where you're doing a lot of like bop bop bop bop bop and just really pop in that bait because you're the one that's creating all the action but if you've got a a night crawler on there and you start going crazy it just wraps up and it doesn't look natural so it's more of just kind of like a little lift and stop drag stop and wait until that tip starts loading up you know if you're using a plastic absolutely pop pop pop put that action into that bait button crawler slow and wispy same with little sucker mills like a three inch sucker minnow is incredible on a drop shot especially in the fall once you get towards like the back half of september that's when those really shine it's kind of late summer deal crawlers are just always the deal you got lots of bug hatches going on and there's just something magical about crawlers when you got 70 degree water so i mentioned the reeling hook set and that kind of an important thing to deal with that well the bluegills are liking this right now is a soft medium light rod i like about a seven foot medium lighter so you want lots of load and i pair it with braid which is kind of what gives me the power but having that soft mushy load for just kind of slowly leaning into them and then cranking down on them is what is just the perfect combo for me anyway for hooking up and keeping fish pinned i like running a braided main line just for feel for when i am making longer casts but i do a long floral leader and like i said earlier today super clear water fussy fish got boats trolling circles around us i mean they've seen baits and boats and splashing and noise so i have six pound test on and probably a 20 foot leader so basically my entire leader is all that's in the water looks like we've got this bright line like okay won't they see that it's literally laying on top of the surface and it's only leader down there so big spools just for big smooth drag and also if you're making longer casts and typically drop shots are thought of as like a vertical bait but i love getting 30 40 50 feet out away from the boat just because we got such spooky fish and that's where that longer rod helps too with the reeling sets i know a lot of guys like six six rods for drop shots and if i could find seven six i'd be all over it as far as weight sizes goes ninety five percent of the time i'm using a three eighths ounce which is actually a pretty heavy drop shot weight but i just wanna get down there fast and know where my bait is so i know that even if i'm dragging it shaking it whatever that bait is staying on bottom and i'm not losing contact um i know that sometimes you could probably get more bites with a lighter weight but for me like i said power finesse i want to be able to fish fast make casts through schools of fish if they don't bite onto the next and i know this is hitting bottom instantly as far as locations go anywhere you're graphing walleyes and they're not biting right right now it's late summer and the water's warm these fish are just still fussy until it starts dropping temps i'm just seeing graphing tons of fish and they don't want to bite so that's the reason i'm using it now but literally anywhere that you're graphing walleyes and they are not biting but more specifically this time of year late summer using it on outside wheat edges and saddles uh where you've got kind of like two points coming together and you've got a little saddle in the middle or just a pinch point like a high percentage deal where you got fish following the contours on four different spots crisscrossing x marks the spot you know you're just upping your odds of getting in front of more fish i don't know if it's a walleye if it's a bass if it's a what it's a pike no we were gonna end it here because we're running out of light but we can't in a pike can we yuck i lied we are gonna end on a pike this is one reason that i don't like to start with a drop shot because you've got a lot more moving parts and a lot of things a lot more things to get tangled and messy did you see that just pull up i don't like to start with a drop shot if i can catch him with a jig catch him with a chicken wrap whatever else i'd rather do that but when times are tough and i have to i will and now we're running out of light my hands smell let's get out of here nice sound effects [Music] you

Channel: Target Walleye

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Length: 7min 39sec (459 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 31 2022