Picture this. You take about 15 long 2X4s fishing with you. When you get to the place you want to fish you start driving them into the river bottom at a depth they will reach and 15-20 feet apart. After you get them all in you go back to the beginning and start fishing around them and catch fish. I've never done this but watched it being done and apparently this is the only way this ole man ever fished. He said if needed he would move them until he started catching fish. I did watch him catch a few crappie but I believe he was mostly after white perch. I am/was too lazy to do to that much work but it worked. I just had a thought - spray a bottom section of the 2X4 with slab sauce before putting them in. I don't think there was such a thing back then.
Fair Winds and Following Seas
Bill H. PTC USN Ret
Chesapeake, Va