The BEST Multi-Species Rig for Beginners (How To Drop-Shot)

guys welcome back to the shop as you can see it's a little bit messy we're uh we're adding some more shelving so that's exciting but it's kind of a disaster right now today i'm going to show you guys a technique it might be new to you it might not be it is called drop shotting i think it's one of the best techniques for beginners for for perch for crappie for walleye for smallmouth bass like it's just it's so versatile and for someone that maybe doesn't have really good feel not the same fish sense it's it's a good rig because essentially what it is it's the weight on the bottom a hook a couple inches up with your bait on it and the whole key is keeping the weight on the bottom so often when you're fishing you know jigs and that sort of stuff you want to swim it six 12 inches off the bottom to stay in that strike zone but the beauty of the drop shot is the weight's on the bottom the bait's up top so as long as your weight's on the bottom your lure is in the perfect strike zone so we'll talk more about that yet but i have some molds that are actually pretty ideal for drop shots this is this is the one that we're gonna play with the most today this is the it's called the crosstale carrot it is like a typical uh drop shot minnow type mold and uh we've got some other ones some smaller ones for crappies and and stuff like that but that's the main mold we're gonna be using today we're gonna be pouring some soft plastics which i love i love making my own lures and doing these type of videos and then we're gonna go to the water and see if we can catch some fish with it i'll kind of show you the ins and outs of drop shotting how i rig it up first thing we're gonna get some safety gear on we're gonna get some plastic melting and i'm not gonna go too in depth with the lure making but uh here we go got the plastisol we're not gonna make too many today that looks good put it in for three minutes for the first run [Music] while it is microwaving normally it takes like a couple two to three minute increments to get to temperature uh giving a shout out to princess auto they've been partnering on my channel for a while and uh they they help help make it possible for me to make youtube videos for you guys to watch so huge shout out to them as you can see i use a bunch of their stuff gloves you can get masks there and this is actually something new that i got for lure making these are c-clamps that i need to clamp over my mold but something that's kind of unique about this maybe it's not a big deal maybe these have been around for a long time i've never seen them before but your typical c-clamp you know you just wind it up to crank it in but this one has a button so it's just a quick release so if you want to do a bunch of molds at once it just saves me from winding it like 4 700 times so anyways um princess auto link them below some of these tools i'm using anyways we are going to get geared up because i don't want hot plastic all over myself and once it gets to temperature we're going to add probably not add any dye but we're just gonna add some some glitter to give it a little bit of a hue we're probably gonna go for like a bluish or gold we'll probably go blueish reddish minnow pattern kind of a um iridescent type sheen to it but uh anyways here we go i'm going to take my molds now they're locked in on my c-clamp this is my injector i'm going to pour the plastic into this baby and this is what pumps into the mold all right it is now a nice consistency look at that nice blue color to it now we're gonna add some of that all right here we go i overdid it [Music] here we go we gave the baits a minute to cool all right here is the crosstale carrot the one that we're going to be using today sometimes the first pour doesn't go perfect but i think that's perfect check this out we're going to pull it off here you're gonna see the magic [Music] oh baby those look nice [Music] i love the molds that do lots at once look at these i'll rip one off for you that looks absolutely phenomenal that on a drop shot is just gonna be absolute candy for anything that swims right there all right guys now i'm gonna show you how i rig a drop shot of what you need so on the bottom row here those are all drop shot weights there so as you can see you got quite the quite the variety on what you're using so you can go anywhere in between there typically you probably want to go as light as you can to still feel bottom cater it to your situation i'm just going to go on the bigger scale to show you guys so it's easy to see for the camera as far as hooks go there's like specific drop shot hooks there's finesse finesse wide gap i mean there's there's a bunch of different options i think like a size six or size four can do pretty good but you definitely can go bigger as well this is you know what i like using for smallmouth here it's a gamma gatsu i think it's a oh i'd probably say a size four size two somewhere in there um so there's the hook and the weight though that's pretty much all you need plus the plastic so um as far as tackle goes i'd be using probably eight pound braid for a main line and then eight pound fluoro for um the leader material in this case i'm just gonna use this orange line to show you guys the knot i like to use a little bit better and just to show you how the rig sets up all right so we are going to pretend that this is coming off of my rod tip this is a knot that uh apparently this is how aaron martens who's a professional bass angler one of the best guys out there at drop shotting this is how he ties them up and this is how i've copied it so it's it's a double uni knot and there are hooks that specific drop shots that have swivels to might make it a little bit easier to tie but this is this is the way that uh aaron webb told me that he learned from aaron martens so right now i'm gonna have to use a bigger hook this is the hook i'm gonna use for a demonstration it's it's a big flipping style hook but anyways you're gonna take your line and you're going to double it over right there then you're gonna pass it through the top of the eyelet and you're going to tie a uni knot so i've got that doubled line i've got the tag end and then i've got the tag end here and then i've got the main line going to the rod so i'm going to take it in my fingers and i'm going to tie a uni knot now with it doubled so i'm spinning it you can see right there taking that double i'm spinning it and now i'm going to wrap that double piece of line about four times you can see it's sliding here so it's lit i'm gonna pull the tag end in the main line now you could wet it as well and it's gonna cinch up so right now you've got a weird loopy tag end right now that i'm gonna cut you trim it nice and tight all right so this is this is the key part right now you have this tag end right here you're gonna take that tag end and you're gonna pass it back through the eyelet of the hook so you're gonna pass it back down and now what that's going to do is how that weight sits it's actually going to force the hook so i'll lay flat here you can see when i put tension on it right now when i put tension it wants to hold that hook straight and that's what you want it for when a smiley comes in eats right so the next step is to clip your weight on there's tie on weights you can see this one has a little clip-on piece at the top so basically all you're going to do is you're going to slide your line through that little gripper and then wherever you want so if the fish are biting you know two inches off bottom four inches off by you may want to you might want to lock your weight in there if the fish are biting you know 12 inches off bottom you lock it it's all i'm going to do right now is i'm going to take that line and i'm just going to pull it it might not work with how thick this line is but now it's just going to so i pulled that line and now you can see it just notched itself it just notched itself in there so right there that weight is more likely to pull off and break than you lose in the entire rig so you could even leave that tag in there if you want to adjust later but right now this is your drop shot rig you've got your weight you've got your lure sitting off bottom and then as far as hooking it obviously this isn't the right size example but you're gonna hook your new bait on just like that and then when that weight is touching bottom and you're wiggling your rod tip that bait is just gonna dance in the water column so that is a drop shot rig as far as rods go i like a 7 2 to 7 6 medium light rod with a nice soft tip all right guys that's it for shop talk there's your drop shot rig obviously you don't want to be using line like this or a hook like this but that's the basics of it next up we're off to lake of the woods to hopefully catch some fish all right guys we've been doing some driving around i think we've located some bass i'm gonna try to video game it for you we're literally right on the edge of the ice this is hilarious the rig has been created i went with a gold color and we're kind of on the top of the reef here i zoomed in so hopefully you guys can see some some video game smallies i'm just letting that weight hit the bottom and i'm just holding my bait a couple inches off it looks like there's a fish sliding in there on the left i can't see my bait but i see a fish moving and now i'm just keeping that bait on the bottom and just kind of shaking it on a slack line so right now these bass are going to be kind of in a wintering area kind of where they ended the year is where you're gonna find them right at the start of the year so you know deeper humps points rock look at that fish coming up i'm gonna try to get him to chase a little bit he's right under it so you can see my bait's on the bottom there's a fish coming got him oh that was cool smally fishing and there's literally literally ice oh my goodness that's not a smallie look at the size of that perch wow guys look at that perch that is a big chunky perch we're keeping that guy wow i thought those were all smaller so cool so i was right on the top right on the top of the reef where those chunky boulders are so very cool we're gonna try to get back on it so as far as the size of the weight goes it really depends on on how you're fishing um you know heavier weights probably gonna be more likely to get snagged um in this case i may be using a little of a heavier weight than i need because i want to keep it under the live scope so you guys can you know see what's going on yeah we'll see if we can do it again i i'm not convinced those were all perch i think there's some smallies in the mix people often ask me why do i have a tiller and it's this type of fishing when you're trying to stay on top of the fish and move around hollow your electronics right there it's it's a little tougher to do in a console boat i mean obviously console boats have their positives as well but for a scenario like this it is so nice for staying on top of these fish staying mobile all right i'm just seeing that a little bit of rubbly rocky stuff on the bottom and i think the smallies could be hiding in there oh look at that that's a snake but a fish could pull it out of the snag there's a fish coming up to it be nice if a fish pulled out of the snake oh he did he did that's ridiculous that was so cool i think this one's gonna be a bass so cool so much fun on a homemade bait like i know that's not a big bass i don't know there's just something about it we got smallmouth we got perch jay's jigs is back in business and we are about to drift into an iceberg there's a nice boulder down there deploy the drop shot so you can see i'm just taking the rapist out of boulder there bass lake boulders oh there we go hooked up this might be another big perch wow look at this the perch population on lake of the woods is just ridiculous we're having a perch fry tonight boys and girls amazing amazing on that big bait oh i just missed him he's still there oh i missed him again but oh no oh [Music] oh my missing so many all right well you can cast it as well we're gonna try that just because we're not not crushing them right now so the thing to remember is that weight is supposed to be on the bottom when you're actually shaking it right you can you can swim it and stuff too but that weight on the bottom you can just kind of shake your rod on a slack line which is different than a lot of techniques because typically you need to actually move that the weight of the lure but in this case that way it's sitting on the bottom and when you make your rod go when you make the line go slack that bait's dancing up and down so you can drift with it you can cast with it we're gonna try dropping in this quick 30 feet looks nice and rubbly i might be fishing on top of the boulder like right where i'm dropping there's the fish oh that was subtle i thought it was another perch but it's setting too big to be a perch another smallie wow those fish are sluggish the water is cold 30-39 we've got another very small mouth that looks like fish underneath us there's the weight there's the bait you can see dropping down you can even see my line look at that fish coming up two of them [Music] there we go that's decent oh man another small mouth a very small mouth one thing i definitely gotta say about these baits is nose hooking them is you know how i like to do it i think how a lot of people do it but the thing is that can tear very easily so don't throw this away once they're torn one thing you can do is you can shorten it or secondly so there's the water on the lens you can shorten it or secondly like hold on to these and you can re-melt them if you do get into making your own baits uh there's just no reason to throw your baits away because you collect a pile of them and all of a sudden you can you know melt to melt a new bunch there's a fish under us there just zooming around from hump to hump looking for fish as much as i'm looking for fish i'm also just paying attention to kind of the bottom composition right now and because those fishing kind of hide in the boulders but i'm looking for like deep deeper boulders and you know 25 to 25 to 30 is what i'm keying in on here we go look at this fish coming up oh oh got him look at that big blob he was right beside the boulder like right where you'd expect me to be [Music] that's more like it chunky early season bass eating my homemade drop shot bait so good i think we got another fish cruising on the left let's zoom in oh look at him look at him i can't see my bait but i can see the fish i'm just gonna hold that weight on the bottom and just shake the rod tip i'm not even gonna try to move the weight and move the entire rig look at that he's on it there's no reason to move the rig when that bait is just wiggling perfectly in his face i can see more fish down there there's another fish in the distance out there oh there's we're on the jackpot now another chunky little smallmouth on that beautiful bait and they all just hook really nice in the top of the mouth here's another one coming in two of them coming in come on here we go here we go oh that was good that was so good that we didn't play with those fish for a while that's more like it and that's the best part about bass at this time of year is typically if you find one you find a bunch i think there's a fish staring at me look at this that's a little better come on baby be the one want one decent smallie 10 the afternoon not a monster but by far the biggest no three pounders today but i got no complaints for my first smallie session of the year so good jumbo perch big smallies this is such a deadly technique for walleyes as well and it's a great beginner technique i do it a lot for walleye fishing as well back when i guided because the thing is you just need to tell whoever you're fishing with to keep that weight on the bottom if you can keep the weight on the bottom you know you're keeping your bait in the strike zone that you know five to ten inches which is so good for you know deeper bass for perch for walleye so if you're you know you got kids in the boat or something that can't feel the bottom is good give them you know a really heavy drop shot weight get that bait a couple inches up and they're gonna be catching fish but thank you guys for watching hope you guys like the lure making videos if you have any other suggestions comment them below and uh don't forget to wear your life jackets thank you guys for watching [Music] [Applause]

Channel: Jay Siemens

Views: 71,732

Keywords: fishing, lure making, smallmouth bass, perch, jigs, lake of the woods, Ontario

Id: uUkneu3stKI

Length: 18min 54sec (1134 seconds)

Published: Sat May 01 2021