How does one fish a steep, weedy dropoff from shore?

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(10-29-2013 10:41 AM)MichaelAngelo Wrote:  

(10-28-2013 10:19 PM)MuskieBait Wrote:  How about THOSE frogs? Granted, it'll be a surface bite only...and being that it's fall time, fish are less apt to hit something on top.

Well... I don't know if anything is cruising up top. I've worked a fair assortment of subsurface lures in various retrieves and haven't gotten hit. I don't know... I'll figure it out eventually though.

I still wouldn't discount trying a few dozen casts or so with a surface popper. Make lots of racket - like 3 violent jerks immediately back to back then a slow retrieve for a foot and repeat......etc....... if they are hungry, smallmouth will come up quite a distance to hit a popper - but first they gotta hear or feel it.

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