This year I have been using yum dingers. most of my fish have been coming on june bug color.
Also I have been using a bait i got in one of those tackle box subscription thingies called a havoc money maker. color was a purplish flakey one. that bait is meant to be wacky rigged on a drop shot but i have used it both ways with success. They really seem to like that bait.

Aarons magic comes in many colors, is one better?
thanks

Do most of you usually nose hook them or Texas rig them?

I use Aaron's magic, Aaron's pro magic, morning dawn, and margarita mutilator. I nose hook them so the hook just barely pokes through the tip. I never need to Texas rig them, as I am usually fishing them on main lake stuff. Marking and dropping on them. Vertically. Every once in a while, if I am searching, I'll cast it out and hop it along back to the boat. Sometimes, I guess, a t rigged version would hang less. But, 75% of the time, if it hangs up, it's the weight stuck...not the hook.

It all depends on the cover I'm fishing. Heavy cover - weedless rigged on a 1/0 hook. More open water or rock - nose hooked on a size 1 hook.

Steez is right about the weight hanging. If you get hung it's usually the weight caught in something. I finally realized the importance of actual drop shot weights, that you can pull lose from. Saves a lot of hooks and baits.

Zoom Finesse worm Texas rigged. Also Zoom Z3 Swamp Crawler. Both work well for me.

It drifts to the bottom really slow, and darts around like a little fish when you twitch the rod. Sometimes I even put the regular size rattlesnake on there. I have good luck with both... Like you, I exclusively fished roboworms until I experimented with the baby rattlesnake on a whim and made immediate catches. Now I toggle between the two. I still find roboworms to be more finesse and I give them the edge most of the time, but there are conditions under which the rattlesnake works better for me by a large margin. Try roboworm's prism craw, I love that color.

Does anyone use the VMC spinshot or do tie your hook on?

Nothing wrong with the VMC spinshot, just have to tie an extra knot.

I really like the Matzuo 1/0 J bend sickle hooks; very versatile-work well from nose hooked to Texas rig depending on cover/bait/etc.

xcite, netbait, roboworm, and zman elaztec make my favorites for drop shot, along with baby brush hogs.

I have a spin shot tied on. I also have some Mustad 2Xwide drop shot hooks I like as well. The spin shot doesn't really help a lot with twist. It does...just not the be all end all. The little wire twist isn't a swivel. It is just a way for the hook to spin a little. The wire will helpi with twist, but it doesn't make the hook stand out like a palomar pull through knot. It also kinda numbs the subtle action that you need to impart on the bait.

Best bet is to tie on the hook direct via palomar. Pull the long tag end through the hook eye so the hook pops up and out to the side. Then slip on the weight. Make sure to nose hook the bait as straight as possible. This is going to prevent twist. When the bait is crooked, it causes the bait to twist the hook around the centerline of the weight and rod tip. This twists the line.

I use the VMC Spinshot Wide Gap hooks for TX rigging larger DS baits. I've had good luck with them but I wish they only required one knot. I bought some Decoy hooks that are also wide gap but you only ha e to tie one knot.

For smaller DS baits, I mostly use the small Roboworms in Aaron's Magic but lately have been using Baby Rattlesnakes and Tiny Brushogs.

I have better luck with texas rigging a 1/0 roboworm or gamakatsu offset round bend worm hook. Doesn't snag as much and bass seem to get the hook point in their mouth faster. I had decent luck with the spinshot hooks but my line would always eventually wrap around the swivel and render it pointless. As other people said, you also have to tie two knots.

I don't like those hooks at all. I tried them for about a month. They'd get fouled up worse than a normal dropshot. And the extra knot is just another weak point that can fail. I know it's only tied to the weight, but I still don't like it.

I've never had any issue using a lightwire 1/0 hook for weedless rigging and a size 1 octopus hook for nose hooking it.

Try the Gamakatsu swivel shot hooks.