re: heavy rig drop shot

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anybody drop shot with baitcaster equipment?

gonna give it a try. set up: 7 ft GLoomis glx, quantum accurist 7:1, 30 lb. power pro braid, 15 lb. flouorocarbon leader. plan to use brush hogs, beavers, flukes, craw critters, etc.

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It's called "power-shot" or "bubba-shot" when you beef up the gear, and I do it all the time. I use it in a horizontal presentation more like a carolina rig than in the traditional vertical presentation of a normal drop-shot. The advantages over a c-rig are that the bait never sinks all the way to the bottom and you can leave it in one spot (on a bed or next to structure) and keep the bait in the strike zone longer but still give it plenty of action by just twitching your rod tip. It's also very effective when fish are sitting on top of grass beds in deeper water. You can set the drop of the weight to the thickness of the grass and have your bait just skimming along on top of the grass.