Reply To: Drop shot rig retrieve and mid water depth fishing advice

[Devin]

To further answer your question:

What do you do in this situation?

Get in your presentations. If you don’t catch anything then go to the next spot.

I am not sure these were but I was thinking maybe black drum or maybe some other trash fish.

I’m not saying black drum never come off the bottom, but they pretty much never come off the bottom. Whenever I see them on sonar they are glued to the bottom.

If you ever visit the aquarium in New Orleans, they have a large exhibit with sharks, tarpon, redfish, and a lot of other fish, but also black drum. If you watch them (and I have, I absolutely love sitting there and watching the fish) you will see that they stay on the bottom.

You will also see gar suspending. lol

I wish they’d make a more in-depth inshore exhibit. It’d be cool to watch a school of speckled trout swim around!