The Original Mojo Weights
Why Drop Shot Rigging?

WHY DROP SHOT RIGGING? Drop Shot'in is another rigging and presentation to add to your box of fishing tools. This method presents the bait in a suspended and neutral mode, making the presentation natural and buoyant. As if your "offering" is magically floating about. This rig makes your "offering" accessible and vulnerable since it can be easily sited, especially in heavy cover or in clear open water.

Visibility is the key object, since the weight is attached to the end of the line and the hook is attached anywhere between 2" to 36" in front of your weight, when you vigorously shake your rod tip, the bait quivers and dances enticingly. Just remember the bait shakes and not the weight.

The Drop Shot rig can be used in a vertical presentation over suspended fish and cover that are intentionally targeted. It can also be cast and retrieved over a large amount of water for enticing finicky or aggressive feeding bass. Drag this rig, shake it, crawl it, dead stick it. Allow the bait to stay fixed and motionless while applying a tight line to suspend the bait off the bottom. Adjust the rigging distance between hook and weight. Just remember to try all of these methods until you find the right combination.

Also another advantage is that the heavier weight can be flipped or pitched through heavy matted grass, allowing the drop shot rig to reach the bottom where it becomes productive since the grass is heavy mat only on and near the surface. Under the matted thick vegetation is hawg heaven! (The unexplored zone, the twilight zone!) Now drop shoting isn't just for small baits, light lines and rods anymore.

Drop Shoting was originally designed for use with light weights, 1/4oz. max. and finesse style baits. Vertically fished with 3" to 4" style plastics and small worms with light line 4-8 Ib. test. Light to medium action rods depending on depth and weight size.

But we at Mojo believe anglers will be taking drop shoting to the next level as anglers will be demanding a much heavier weight in the very near future, if not some fisherman as of now. Mojo predicts weight sizes from 3/8 oz. - 1 oz. if not more. We have found when casting these heavier drop shot rigs they can produce a lot better results than the lighter weights. But Why?

You can cast a lot further especially in windy weather and get to the bottom quickly in deep water and rough water. The heavy weight stirs the bottom and makes plenty of noise drawing aggressive strikes.

The heavy weight gives the angler a much better feedback as to what the rig is coming through such as rock, brush, hard bottom or soft weeds, grass, isolated pieces of structure and cover. This feedback allows you to know when you may get a strike and be prepared. It also makes you a confident angler, because of what you can feel. You can practically see the fish in your mind viciously attacking your bait and you just know you're going to get bit!

When you do contact something related to the bottom and you feel the weight lightly hang, you are able to keep your bait in that strike zone without it moving. If the weight was to hang after setting a fish, the Mojo weight is designed to release without loss of your fish. Remember the weight is at the bottom and has a break strength much lower that of the palomar tied knot attached to the hook.

Do you drop shot?