I would have to agree in general but have found many instances when dead stickin is just as, if not more, productive than a moving bait. When the ice first leaves the lakes we use 10 - 16 foot poles and set jigs right in front of their noses just as if we were ice fishing. We are also doing some of that right now to get them out of the brush, and will continue to do so all summer. Or in late May or early June when one of those crazy 40 degree cold front comes in for a day or two. We then go right to the stumps that are protruding from the water. I have found over the years that them big old specks will hug the stumps tight in such a situation. We have plucked 10 - 20 slabs off one stump many times, but only if the jig is just dangling in their faces.
It is not about the equipment you have to use,
It is about how you use the equipment you have. :D