What do you guys use? only deep water i fish is by a tiny dam and it might be 10-12ft deep with all kinds of structure on the bottom. I normally use a 10" texas rigged worm and do good but I wanna throw something new out there. Water is usually never clear.

C rig and/or jig can be a choice for you. If the bottom isn't too soft and there's not too much heavy brush or timber, dragging a Football jig will wake'em up too.

Big O

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the lake the dam flows into use to be a corn field. theres old fencing there, trees, rocks, no telling what else. i get hung up sometimes and dont even know what on.

A Bomber Fat Free Shad Jr. would be perfect for that, just guide it through the cover and hold on!

This is something I'm trying to learn as well. The best I had done was in 15' with a shaky head. I had troll around the 15'-20' range with a rattle trap yanking them out with a gold/black one knocker by Excalibur. I even troll 60' passing a d**n to get to other side and caught a tiny bass, shocked me. I heard wacky is productive deep so I'm going to try that as well with jig heads. I never had luck cranking deep but might been ratio speed at time which I recently bought a setup for cranking but not for deep unfortunately. I was told here though I could go with 14' divers though with the rod I have/ I got myself a slower ratio reel as well.

With all that structure. A jig sounds like it would do the trick.

For deeper water (especially on dams like you have mentioned), I'll throw a DD22 or a 1/2 oz. jig. Get them active fish, and then slow down and get the more lethargic/calmer fish.

A rage rigged Rage Tail Lobster