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No Bassmaster Elite Series pro deploys a drop shot in more situations than Idaho’s Brandon Palaniuk. His drop-shot mastery with smallmouth bass is well-documented. But you may not know that he also catches drop-shot bass supershallow, in frigid water and from boat docks, laydowns, sunken brush, submerged grass and more.