As you let out over more than 100 feet of line in August.  Fish are ALL sitting in the weeds.  Highest clear sun angle.  You are entering dehydration. Drag that lure as fast as you can run.  3 to 6 feet above the short weeds covering the bottom. 

 

BANG  fish on.   ?

 

What Arthritis ?

 

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I have seen a school of biggies very deep. not 3 seconds later the rod is bent & shuddering as I slow down in gear . They do compete in a race up to get that big lure in perch colors.   A lone perch 3 feet down is room service. If 1 is hungry. 

Out where I fish a squarebill fished on 30lb braid and 15lb mono leader rated for 2-5 feet won't go much over a couple casts without getting pulverized, burn it too, they don't mind, especially later in the month as the summer/fall transition gets going, after it's all the way fall it's still one of my top 3 lures, the Pop-R or other variant is an enormous producer, and the Spinnerbait is the other, but basically once we hit fall I don't touch another crawfish imitator until winter or spring.