I think it was Rees Guide in the Mississippi forum last year, was trolling crankbaits in 2 ft of water with only 5 ft of water out and going next to flooded bushes and buck brush in the shallows nailing big crappies with crankbaits. I tried it with my 12’ rods last year on Cataract and Monroe. On the Cat. I had my 300 series Bandits and Arkies set 2’ deep and caught good fish spawning over the shallow points near deep water. On Monroe, with high water, nailed a ton of fish along the bushes and flooded trees super shallow. The fish will come right out of the cover and hit the baits when they,are feeding no matter how shallow you troll at certain times. I need to troll more out of the back of the boat but can never bring myself to stay off the front for line control. I guess it goes back to my Bass Fishing Tourney days. Sat and Sunday, trolling off the front, I lost 8 to 10 super nice fish head shaking the bait out and might have had better results working from the back as I found myself getting up and landing the bigger fish from the back anyway. Old habits,are hard to break. Great info Locator79.