Fishing Drops?

[CTFSHWHISKER]

as champion cole said you have to find the sweet spot on a drop,and as Danny said when the fish are that deep usually they are not in feeding mode.
look for the place that will be a ambush spot,a rise on the drop rock pile log stump.a flat bottom that just drops sometimes will have fish but more times than not it won't hold good fish.watch bait activity on the surface.Use your depthfinder and spend more time looking and less time fishing for a day or two.remember too the deeper you are the harder it is to hit the spot every cast,use marker buoys they are your best friend.i have a little rock spot on a drop on nolin we had over a hundred fish in 2 days,a good limit both days,if you hit very far at all from it you wouldn't get bit but we could throw our jig on the spot 2 feet apart and doubled many times,lots of them were little 14" fish but fun.out of a 100 yard ledge you may have 5ft of productive fishing.
nota pro at all but just my experience.remember too bass are not the only fish in the lake some of what you mark may be other species just keep trying and if you mark fish come back every hour to see if they are biting.

[Danny]

Hey Whiskers,

Your Nolin spot sounds like one little point on Mid-lake Barkley. I have caught as many as 35 fish an hour there, and the action lasts all day, but they all seem to be 14.90 inches...LOL That is where I take folks in the summer who want to catch fish, just to be catching the fish. I'm sure the place has taken a pounding over the last few years as I've concentrated on KY Lake. And like yours, your lure had to hit a target about a 5 foot circle, otherwise nothing. Actually, I've tried to duplicate that pattern, it is almost perfect, and one spot almost exactly like it, I can not buy a bite, and another I get a lot of bites and catch a lot of small fish, but on a completely different bait.

Drops are the most interesting form of fishing because it seems to be such a changing type of fishing as Devilshorse mentioned.

I just wish I could get one of those whack 'em stack 'em periods on the type of fish Kelly Jordan found on UMF!! and not those 14 inchers I seem to always find.

Danny

[F16ENGMGR]

If you've never tried jiggin spoons go for it. They're great to fish drops. I've caught as many as 7 different species in one day using them. I remove the nickel plated hooks and replace them with wire hooks. Also use braided line 40-50 lb test. If you fish areas prone to hang up, you can usually straighten the hooks especially if you're close to location where bank fisherman congregate from snagging on to old line. If you watched Ultimate Match Fishing recently Kelly Jordan was slaying the bass at KY Lake. Also Stanley Mitchell won the Bassmaster CLassic using a spoon.