 Oh my god. I'm glad that fish bit it like that. I'm so glad that fish bit it like that. So Right now guys. I don't know if you guys saw that Look at his fat stomach. We got a security guard right next to us. I'm about to get kicked out But anyways beautiful fish He slammed that thing right when I was jerking it really hard, you know, we're not really soft I was jerking it pretty hard moving that bait a lot and that triggered a reaction bite Let's get back in the water Keep the camera. Yes, sir. Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome to another video. Thank you guys so much for clicking on this one today I'm really excited to bring this for you Let's restart that over. Hey, yo, what's going on guys? Welcome to another video. I'm excited to bring one Yeah, but I cannot talk today. What is going on? Welcome to another video So today we're doing something that I've been wanting to bring to you guys for a while now You guys have been coming in the comment section below know what we want to drop shot video know what tips you have for a drop shot No, how to rig a drop shot. So guess what guys that is what we're doing today First of all, if you guys are enjoying these tip videos Be sure to leave a like on this video and also leave a comment below on what tip video you would like to see next So I'm gonna die sex kind of what we're gonna talk about today in this video and pretty much I'm gonna show you guys how to tie a drop shot I'll I rig my drop shot what baits I throw on a drop shot ought to go throw it in the lake and catch more fish So that is what we're gonna be covering today. Let's go to the back of the kicking mobile And I'll show you guys how to recover drop shot So first things first if you guys haven't subscribed to the channel be sure to click that subscribe button That means a lot everybody who supports me on the day-to-day basis. Thank you guys so much So I got something a little bit tricky today. So all my spinning combos, which is what I got today That's what I highly suggest throwing a drop shot on you can throw it on a bait caster We're gonna actually be throwing a drop shot out today We're not gonna be vertically dropping on a fish and I'm still gonna be using a spinning rod really light tackle This is actually a fade black by 13 fishing paired with a Kree GT by 13 And if you guys notice, I actually have this on braid right there. This is very thin braid This isn't nothing like 65 pound. This is very very light braid around 20 pound braided the line right here So we're not gonna directly tie this to the drop shot This is one thing that you guys need to take into duration when you know fishing Baits like this in clear water as well, you know, you don't want to throw it right on braid The fish can see that and that's not gonna be your best bet So what we're gonna do is we're actually gonna tie a fluorocarbon leader onto this braided line So first things first, I'm going to push this through these eyelids And then I'm gonna show you guys how to tie a double uni knot so you can put a leader on So funny thing I actually do not have fluorocarbon with me today like on a spool So I'm actually gonna take some off of my bait caster. This is 10 pounds Seaguar fluorocarbon This is in Visex really smooth line. I've used it for years now That's just my all-in-all favorite of all the time. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna cut this jerk bait off And I'm gonna take a little bit of leader line, and I'm really onto my spinning rod So we need my good knife cut that jerk bait off And now we're gonna tie This onto here so you guys are probably wondering know how in the heck Are you gonna tie two lines together and this is where a uni to uni knot comes in handy And it's very strong when you're reeling it through your eyelids It's not too bulky and heavy especially with the small line, and it's just the perfect fit for you know Tie in line together. So this is what you're gonna do So I got my braid right here my fluorocarbon right here. I can make a separate video on this I'm just gonna make this very quick and simple for you guys We're gonna line them up to one another. All right So you gotta do is line them up. Now I'm gonna take one in and I'm pretty much gonna tie like a standard uni So I'm gonna grab my line. I'm looping my fluorocarbon Around my hand just like I would for a standard uni knot which I already have a video on that you guys can go check that out And I'm gonna loop it around in the circle All right, I'm gonna do this about five times and then I'll pull that tag in I Just have it like that then I'm going to do the same thing onto this braided end Look at the same way. This is why it's called a double uni knots. You're technically tying Two uni knots together. That's really all you're doing Really simple like that. I can make a video on this I know this is not easy to follow and it's not supposed to be I can make another video where I'm you know Demonstrating that if you guys like to see that so let me know once we finish that right there We have our two uni knots. We're simply gonna tap not the tag in but the line to the rods We're gonna cinch them down together as you can tell I'm not holding the tag ends They're gonna collide Just like that. You see that those two uni knots that are cinched down together now and that is perfect For our old leader and now all I got to do is simply cut my tag ends and I'm good to go Just like that as you guys can tell it's not like a super bulky profile So that's gonna go right through your eyelids perfectly and you're really not gonna have too much trouble with this I promise you it's not this is what I've used for years It just works best for me and now all I'm gonna do note that these poles are tied to one another now So I'm gonna make sure that this is Clicked so I can take some line off And I'm gonna apply a little bit of pressure. I'm gonna reel about 10 to 15 foot in just like so that's all I did Just stealing liner out father real That's an easy way to save some money too because I know you guys are all into you know budget fishing and boom We got our braid on a reel, but we have a fluorocarbon leader So he gives it that finesse profile when tying on a bait like this All right, so it's time to rig up now. We've got our fluorocarbon on I'm gonna simply just grab me a little nose hook Let me explain the difference between a few hooks right here You can weed this hook your drop shot and that's very productive All right, but today we're just gonna be nose hook in the bait And we're just gonna be using a standard little size one the size two drop shot hook right there And you're just gonna nose hook the bait see we can let me show you like right here We could really get weed list with this hook But this one we're just gonna be nose hooking it and let me explain the difference So this one is going to be you know when there's obviously you're pitching this around trees and a lot of cover You really don't want to get snagged up that easy and your hook's not exposed You know your bait is dug in to the point of that hook But when we're fishing grass as well, you know, you're gonna want something like that But when we're fishing these ponds in the more of open water I tend to just nose hook the bait it gives it an easy it's easier to penetrate a fish with it one But two this hook is exposed. That's the perfect hook that we're going to use today Like I said, this is a size one or size two drop shot hook both work very well The trick to the tying a drop shot I'm tying a standard uni knot is to have a bunch of tag in line Because it's I'll show you here in a minute, but you're not going to want to tie it like a specific You know little bait on your hook. You're going to have a lot of tag in line Something sometimes simple or not is a uni knot See how much tag in line I have left over It's because that's where our weight is going to go on the bottom It's going to keep this hook off the bottom. It's all I got to do Web my line Sense it down and this is the most important part right here This is one of the reasons why I wanted to make this video today Because I feel like a lot of people miss fish because of this Once you tie your hook onto your line and you have your tag end All right, you're not going to cut this much. You're going to want to put your weight at the bottom This is the trick You're going to take your tag in and you're going to go back. All right See my tagging down here. You're going to take this And go back You're not already tied. You're just going right through the eyelid on top You can see your hooks facing up And you're going to pull this back down. All right, just like that And you guys are probably wondering Noah. What is this doing? Why like, why do you do that? Why do you stick your line back through and this is exactly why so on a drop shot You're not really hooked setting a fish. You're just lifting up slightly lifting up or or you're vertically dropping on a fish The most important thing is to have this hook facing up So when you lift up it goes right into the top of his mouth because if the hook is faced down or sideways Your hookup ratio isn't going to be as good. You know, if I didn't stick my line back through this hook I promise you the hookup ratio is going to be horrible But with it like this, you're going to catch every single fish. See all your hook is faced perfectly up That barb and the point of the hook is literally Faced perfectly up. So when I go to lift boom right into the fish's mouth That is the most important thing When drop shot fishing that that is probably the most important step And I'm glad I could add it into this video and if you guys are watching this far in I'm so glad because you guys are probably wondering why, you know, no, I'm missing a lot of fish. This is not That's probably why right there and now I'm just going to tie simple little cylinder weight right here pop it on there Loop it around one time Then got my little weight you guys can tell my leader is not that long. It's about Seven to eight inches. I really don't have too much line in between that right there It's not like I'm fishing, you know, some super deep water fish aren't too finicky here. It's a pond You know, I want to stick to about that seven eighth inch Range I do like a foot leader as well. But that's that's just what I use Usually when I'm coming to ponds and if we're not getting any bites I will lengthen this even more and I'll and I'll bring it down about, you know Two to five more inches. That is what we're dealing with right now And we've got our hook straight up. That is a drop shot fish catching machine right there You guys need to go take these tips go to your ponds or lakes wherever you're fishing And you will catch fish and go use that little tip about putting the line back through and you will catch I promise you 10 times more fish But let's go ahead and get us a worm and then get out to the pond Where I'm going to show you guys how to rig and fish this bait So when it comes to picking out the right type of worm or minnow to put on your drop shot I use a few simple rules when coming out here So if I'm fishing clear water, I'm going to fade towards, you know, more of a natural color like green pumpkin watermelon red Got your like prism shads or like, you know, like a bluish translucent look You got your robo worms in like morning dawn, which are more of a pink color And that's usually what I'd fade towards with clear water I'm moving over to this dirty water, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna start adding in my darker colors So like junebug junebug is a really great color green pumpkins great as well Usually watermelon red. I wouldn't use in dirty water I'd fade towards that green pumpkin junebug color deal more of the darker color for the dirty water So today with these ponds, I'm going to whip out this pack of worms. I looks like I only have one more junebug worm That's what I usually use in ponds, especially ponds that, you know, the water's not doesn't have a lot of clarity That's usually what I use now have these that are called watermelon slice And it's like a green pumpkin with a little bit of red on the bottom That's great for dirty water as well. These are the two colors that we're going to be fooling with today Probably my favorite of all time. It's probably like a watermelon or not watermelon uh morning dawn I'm telling you killer little pink worm. You cannot beat that usually dirty and clear water You'll catch them, but uh, that's what we're going to be experimenting with today The only thing left to do is go out to the pond and catch some fish, baby I remember if I told you guys I do have 10 pound fluorocarbon onto that leader I like eight pound as well something very light So you're gonna have to check your drag make sure it's pretty loose and we're using light tackle today They're on a drop shot so very important to check your drag make sure it's pretty loose And you're going to give that fish a chance to you know tug going out with the worms I think we're just going to start off with this june bug one. I mean we got one left We might as well pop them on the hook and see what we're going to do And let me show you how I'm rigging this thing since we just have a standard simple Old circle hook. This isn't weedless. All right So all I'm going to do is see I got my hook right there Just through the head of the bait you're just going to Boom That's all I do right there simple sample. All right. It's really easy. That's all we're going to do. All right So it's time to catch fish boys And I'm going to experiment with a couple different things with this drop shot I don't like to work it the same way every time I go out. You know, I try a few different things But that means said we're going to be casting around We're going to be figuring out today if they want this bait really moving off the bottom If they want it dragged off the bottom if they want it, you know me dead sticking this thing We're really going to have to toy around today and figure out what these fish really want and how they're going to commit So we can catch more fish. So always when I come to these ponds I try to look for the cover that you know, I'm going to be fishing. I got a pipe in the water right here I'm suddenly flipping this drop shot all around it. That's so important when coming to these ponds To break it down and really figure out what you're going to do find what covers in the pond figure out Whether those fish are sitting whether they're out deeper. They're on some trees up shallow, whatever it is Start fishing. So right now. I'm just kind of searching, you know, I'm searching to figure out where these fish are And what they're going to how they're going to eat this bait today. So, oh Oh my gosh, what in the world that was You guys just watched that that's about stupidest thing I could do. I kind of I feel like I gave him a little too much Yeah, I gave him a little too much. I that's Learn from my mistakes. Don't all right. So this is the thing with the drop shot You're not wanting to hook set too hard. I'm doing it really really soft So when a fish loads up on it, I'm just lifting up really I want to show you guys this real quick See if we can get this fish to bite again. He was on there I feel like I kind of just started to swing towards it and say he's lifting up I got a little excited there for a second. See if this is going to bite I'm just simply hopping this thing as you guys can tell by my hand motions Simply hopping it lifting my rod up much. I'm not, you know, jerking this thing around too much All right. Well Matter of fact, I am jerking that thing a lot What in the world, man? That is all right. This is awesome. This is this is why I like making these tip videos because it shows you guys Look at look at his lipstick right there. Gosh. Look at that Oh my god. I'm glad that fish bit it like that I'm so glad that fish bit it like that. So Right now guys. I don't know if you guys saw that Look at his fat stomach We got a security guard right next to us. I'm about to get kicked out. But anyways beautiful fish He slammed that thing right when I was jerking it really hard, you know, we're not really soft I was jerking it pretty hard moving that bait a lot and I triggered a reaction bite. Let's get back in the water Keep the camera roll. Yes, sir All right, so, um As I was saying people. Yeah, I got kicked out. So that's okay though. I can't fish that front pond I'm not allowed to fish that front pond. I know I wasn't allowed to fish that front pond I'm gonna tell you guys don't do stuff like that. No, I'm just when it comes to fishing I have no limits. I'm crazy. Okay. So we're gonna go fish another pond. We're a lot of fish places around here I just can't fish that pond. Um, I've I've been fine. That's the crazy thing I've been fine with fishing it this whole time this first time and someone's actually kicked me out of that front pond So that's fine though. Um, we got one fish. I did figure something out Maybe we can take this to another pond see if we can catch some more fish So this video is not over people. We're gonna continue. We're gonna catch some Let's go There is one thing I really want to talk about in this video That's very important and pretty much why I made this one is the different retrievals with this drop shot That I kind of experiment with depending on the conditions of the day And how active the fish really are so one way that I love to work a drop shot very clean and simple And it's going to be a very productive way pretty much any time whether the fish are active What are the fish are very lethargic and it's going to work every way and it's going to be simply just dragging that thing like this Lifting your rod up just kind of dragging that thing off the bottom and then you just let your line slack So what that's doing is you have your bait at the top and your weight at the bottom when you have Tension in your line and you're dragging that bait it's off the bottom when you let your line slack and just lay down and wait a second What that bait's doing is it's falling right to the bottom. It's laying on the bottom So then you pull your line tight again and drag the bait and it's off the bottom Then you give it a pause and it falls down That is a very very very productive way when when the fish are really lethargic And they're not really eating. You know, they're really it's really tough like you're on a tough day You really can't get them any bites and that is one way that you know, you can really catch them Another way when it's really tough is simply throwing that drop shot out there boom Letting it hit the bottom And what you're going to do is get slack and not no slack in your line get tension in your line And just kind of hold it there. All right And you're just going to barely wiggle your bait and then you're just going to let it sit And I mean you're going to let this thing sit for I mean you're pretty much dead sticking this bait But you're just giving it a little tiny You know wiggles just like that So it's just giving the bait a little bit of motion keeping that thing off the bottom And that can be a very productive way because you're not just bouncing this thing all over the place You know, you're still keeping it really really really really really really slow Godly man You're still keeping this thing really really subtle But you're giving it a little bit of movement just in case the fish is kind of looking at it And he's wondering, you know, what's going on you give it that little sporadic movement Just that little wiggle and then the fish engulfs it So when the fish are a little bit more active, you know, they're starting to chomp This is you know, just the basic way that I work a drop shot is pretty much throw it out there And just bounce this thing off the bottom, you know slight motion in your rod I'm not you know going crazy with it But I'm just kind of you know bouncing that thing along the bottom and I'm working it back to me Just like I would a shaky head a jig Um any bottom bait really mainly a shaky head that's pretty much just how I'm working I'm just working it back to me. I'm covering water I'm able to throw this thing in a lot of different spots just because I'm not keeping this thing still as long Therefore I'm going to be able to make a lot more cast So that is probably the basic way to work a drop shot So that's what you can experiment around with right when you first get out there is covering water Really figuring out what this fish want and then once you know, you notice the fishes aren't biting That's when you slow down to dead sticking it or just barely moving that bait or dragging it on the bottom And then the last way that I'm going to show you guys Is simply throwing it out there and just working it back pretty fast pretty aggressive You know wiggling your rod a lot really making that bait move just really overall working it faster than you normally would And that's going to work on those days where this fish are just chomping, you know, this fish are just active They're ready to eat. They're hungry and they don't really care You know, they're just going to buy whatever is really in front of them That is when I would do that and obviously this is for Casting a drop shot out and obviously I'm at a pond right now So like when I'm on a lake like if I'm dropping down on a fish I'm going to work it a lot different than when I'm casting out at these ponds and other places You know, I'm probably going to drive it down and just slightly wiggle the rod or just drop it in front of one's face And bring it in front of them and I'm kind of watching the fish on the graph That's totally different But this is more for when I'm casting a drop shot out and using it as many places I can And swishing up the techniques So those are like four different ways that I would really stick to when throwing a drop shot to get more bites If you notice that fish aren't biting the bait like you're just not you've tried everything You've tried dead sticking you've tried to move it around the best option from there is the switch colors So you're going to switch colors from you know, a june bug to a green pumpkin And that might just be that little kick right there That's going to allow you to catch more fish and I've seen it happen on a day to day basis And I actually see it on my graph when I drop down on fish. They won't eat a pink worm But then I put a green one on and they gobble it up every time So just a simple little adjustments like that can really help you catch more And another thing is not only just switching the color say that it doesn't work And you're just not getting bites on a worm. All right, and then you have to pretty much Guys, I'm having the roughest time today. This is not even the best day for me Instead of throwing a worm you want to throw like a little shad profile minnow And that's always great. That's always good to rig on a drop shot Especially if you're vertically dropping on fish But those are all just little easy tips that I use on that day to day basis when throwing a drop shot That really helps me figure the fish out and catch more and catch a ton more if you figure out Really what they're wanting to eat that time of day. All right, everybody that is going to conclude this video I didn't catch any more fish and I've just had a rough day today guys and I'm it's about to get dark and I just really need to get out of here I really appreciate everybody and all the support and love every single day on the channel really means a lot If you guys want to see some more tip videos, be sure to leave a comment below in the comment section If you guys have not subscribed to the channel channel yet Be sure to hit that subscribe button also pepper that like button up if you guys haven't already And let me know what tip videos you want to see next I really want you guys to do that so leave a comment below. Thank you guys for your support I love you guys so much and I catch you guys in the next video They can't stop you