Hi everyone. This is my first official post, I've been lurking around for some time reading all this site has to offer. But any ways back on track. So today I had some free time and thought it would be a good idea to practice a little flipping and pitching in the back yard. My son's 4 foot plastic pool was filled to the brim from all the rain we have had recently and I thought it would be perfect. So I noticed when I was flipping or pitching both the jig and texas rigged sweet beaver that they always fell over in the water. The jig would just turn over on its side unless I hopped it across the bottom. The texas rigged sweet beaver would no matter what, always land and settle with the hook pointing down. I tied both baits with a clinch knot and improved clinch and also a polamer knot and nothing improved. So this has me thinking. Do you guys think that since I was using a hard plastic pool with less than a foot of water and no current that it was causing the problems? I made sure the jig trailer was lined up and hooked properly as well as the texas rig. Maybe it has to do with not having much line in the water since the pool was so small. Either way what do you guys think? Thank for your help

Probably due to the depth.

I forgot to mention I tried both a egw hook and offset shank hook as well. thank for the help guys

Don't worry about it, it happens even in a lake but usually deeper water will hold it for a bit. For flipping jigs I use a wedge head that is never going to stand up but I don't want it to, I want it to fall though cover and hit the bottom and then I'll jig it up and down a few times and pull it out and go to the next spot. Bass hit these baits on the fall most of the time, and even when dead sticking the fish will inhale that bait, so it isn't hard for them to get it off the bottom. I use a finesse worm on a shaky head that is loaded with salt and I do very well with it, I think the upright position you see in fish tanks is overhyped and while it looks good to us we really don't know what looks good to the fish. I have fished stand up heads with floating style worms and I found I do no better than I do with sinking models and the same can be said with beaver style baits, I catch fish on them when they hit bottom right after the fall or during the fall so standing up on bottom isn't necessary so don't worry about it.