If you are fishing 10 feet of water and the brush piles are sitting 3 feet off the bottom then the fish are only traveling 3.5 feet to get to your offering. That is not far.

They look up and see my jig and say ..............."There's Shipahoy41. It is an honor to be in the same boat as him. Get out of my way....I'm headed for Lake Crisco."

Yeppir................that's what I heard the last one say too.