Jig fishing,

I yousto try and get as close to the bottom as possible but I found that its not really that important.

In 8 feet or less I try to be withing 3 feet of the bottom. In bottomless pits I go 5 or 6 feet.

If they want it the fish will come up and instead of loosing 5 or 6 jigs a day I might loose one or none. Havent notticed that I catch less fish either on jigs.