Also the original Kentucky rig that had a heavy sinker on the bottom with two droppers above it. It allowed you to let down slowly and hopefully feel the brush before the hooks got in it. Still use that..for catfish too in the big rivers drift fishing...you feel that sinker touch you pull up before you can get snagged.Big Catfish will hit it a lot of times when you bang a log with that sinker.

Also a lot of lakes had more standing timber and a lot of the crappie used it more...you dropped it down in the branches and along the trunk. Many of the lakes you fish that have stumps you hang your boat on or are two or three feet were standing tall above the water 40
years ago.

There is no species that we did not fish for deep at least part of the year. The clearer the lake the more time you have to spend deep. Course some Ozark lakes you can see thirty feet or more deep. You're not considered really fishing deep until you exceed that. Then some of the swamps deepest water is only 5 or 6 ft at most. You knew where the underwater limbs where because you knew what Cypress tree or Tupelo gum they were by.