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I first heard about drop-shotting in the late 1990s , and I have to admit that I dismissed it at first . I thought it was a light-line , finesse technique that was only good for numbers – a small bass method . Of course , my goal in tournaments is to catch bigger-than-average bass , so I figured drop-shotting was something I could ignore .
Then , in 1999 , I was fishing a tournament on Lake Oroville in California and Japanese angler Seiji Kato pulled up . I had caught a fish or two on a jig , but nothing special . Kato came in and caught a bass on every cast . I started to look at the technique very differently . A couple months later , on Lake Pleasant in Arizona , I was throwing a big jig with little success . Brett Hite pulled up and caught a limit practically under my boat . That ’ s when I added drop-shotting to my arsenal .
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