1. I dont wacky worm i take a gulp minnoworm and hook it right through the nose of the bait and slowly move the rod up and down making the worm work
2. Not at all near senko fishing if you ask me. but then againI dont fish senkos the normal way
3. It should work just fine. I put mine on a three way swivel with three uni knots.
4. I personally dont know, but likeI mentioned aboveI use gulp minoworms as well as zoom super salt flukes and sometimes ifI am fellin frogy Ill throw a lizzard on there, but make it a floatin lizard.
5. 3/0 is plentyI usually use a 2/0 in fact.
6. It is hard to beat live bait and different area of the US require different tactics there is no way to know if you will catch as many fish on the drop shot as you normally would on a shiner. The best advice i can give you is to get out there this weekend and fish your butt of and throw everything at them that you can think of until you catch fish after fish which seems like it hasnt been a problem for you here lately Chuck so I wouldnt worry about it to much.

Brent