I think it will work just fine, I've been catching a lot of them rigging out of the front at Pomme in swallow water fishing as deep or even deeper then the water so like 8-10 feet down in 8 feet of water, but when I do this I'm going faster and pulling the baits right along the bottom. It works!!! When I'm in deeper water or the fish or up off the bottom I try to go slow and keep the line vertical.