If I'm fishing a deep hole with fast water, I'll typically go more towards drift gear, typically, I use jigs for just about everything. In my experience, when the fishing is tough, fish will hit jigs more than anything else. Several times I've gone to a river and there will be people already there drifting bait and what not with no luck. I'll use a float/jig and out fish them easily. Sometimes it's slow all the way around but it seems like jigs out produce.