I love spinnerbaits and jerkbaits around standing timber, caught my biggest bass that way.

At that time period the early 80’s I’am not a traditional double tandem blade spinner bait angler I am a twin spin angler. I make my own wire frames and use a 5/8 oz football jig with vinyl skirt and Pork rind trailer starting with PVJ purple vinyl jig with purple pork rind twin spin. Cast to a tree and let it fall until it stops  and start the retrieve. This works. My partner is casting and retrieving with no success.

Tom  

Rat-L-Trap, that's what they were invented for.

Square Bills, 6th Sense Movement 80X, I have some Bagley Balsa Bs

I’ve developed a lot of confidence casting/pitching Heavier or weighted Fluke style baits like the Yamamoto D shad into a tree that I think may be holding fish and allowing it to fall to the bottom. In 30+ FOW I’ve reluctantly found a spinning reel is the better tool for the job as you don’t get the pendulum effect pulling the bait away from the cover. 
 
I fish it like some guys punch mats. More focused on line-watching the initial descent and then onto the next target.

Don't fish a lot of standing timber now. But I used to catch some good largemouth in a flooded timber area near the mouth of Duck River on Kentucky Lake on a chartreuse big Balsa B square bill.