while fishing a walleye tournament on a local river, i had to deal with pretty strong current and was struggling with my usual presentations because i like to fish light weight tackle. i couldnt get the action i was looking for from my lures with the bigger jigs required to get down to the bottom.

i then tried drop shotting with a big bell sinker and used a long shanked light wire hook to get a little more subtle flutter out of the plastics. the water is still pretty cold (38 degrees), so the fish werent hitting hard, a pretty subtle bite and they wanted a really controlled fall on the lure.

what i found to be most effective was an 1/8 oz jighead (with the stinger hook eyelit) rigged as my dropshot hook with the stinger line as my dropper to the big sinker. with the jighead the plastic didnt tumble with the current nearly as much as the plain hook during the slack line portion when the sinker was on the bottom and i had really good success.

this application worked really well in heavy current, not really applicable to the standard Q locations, but little modifications to the usual methods can be super effective, dont be afraid to think outside the box