The jury is still out for me, I have my reservations (they look rubbish) but this was going to be my drop shot virginity breaker.
A warm up/rekkie session on one of the Quays in town, we saw some quite good Perch in there few weeks back, never fished it before, quite alot of water to go at too, we were originally just going to go for a Pike session but we decided on trying a few Perch methods.....including drop shotting!
We plummeted and got over 18 - 25ft drop offs in quite clear water (clear to our visibility to a depth of about 10ft)! I found it hard going.
She was using worm, lightly ledgered using a FG telescopic 240, and was the only one of us to catch anything! (few small/medium Perch).
Only having ever caught a few Perch before, my biggest is a 2lb+ from a local river last year, I've always just stuck to worm and a little "Karma" Carp picker rod with light quiver tip for my Perch, my only issue is with getting a good free supply of tiger worms (Eisenia fetida) in winter becomes harder to achieve, so that is where the other methods I thought might come in handy, as worm is hard to beat imho but like to leave the lobs (Lumbricus terrestris) in the soil to do the great job they do when I leave them alone.
So.....I bought the Power bait Power pack from Go-Out
mg:, not that cheap either but as I was intending on trying 4 baiting methods:
Prawn (ledgered)
Worm/tigers (ledgered & free lined)
Mepps
Berkley Power Pack
Worm worked the best, however, it was a one off so not sure how much can be accredited to what at that stage.
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That is exactly what I did (I do for spinning the small Mepps also) has worked surprisingly well so far.