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GET THE DROP ON CRAPPIE

and then I am going to go straight down the Barry Morrow uses a variety of hooks and
trunk.” weights for drop shot techniques using soft
When swimming the rig, Morrow never plastics or minnows.
lets the weight hit the bottom. “If I am fishing
10 feet of water I am going to flip it down to
about 4 feet under the water,” he says. While the surface which allows him to fish different
positioning his boat about 10 feet from his levels of the water column before trying a
target, Morrow either pitches to the cover new spot.
and swims his rig back through the tree limbs When presenting his drop shot to cover,
or drops his rig near the boat and “walks” it Morrow depends on either a 10-foot Todd
towards the trunk of the tree. Huckabee Dipping Rod or a 10-foot, 7-inch
If the swimming presentation fails to Todd Huckabee Pro Series Rod. He matches
trigger strikes, Morrow moves closer to the the Dipping Rod with a Quantum spinning reel
target and drops his rig straight down the spooled with copolymer line and combines
tree trunk. “I let that weight touch down on the Pro Series Rod with a B’n’M Buck’s Best
the bottom and bounce it two or three times Ultra-Light Reel filled with braid.
there and then I am just going to hold it,”
says Morrow, who usually holds it still for
10 to 15 seconds. “A lot of my bigger bites
come off the bottom.” If crappie ignore the - John Neporadny Jr.
still bait, Morrow slowly raises the rig back to

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