This lure easily covers water from 2 feet deep out to 40 feet deep effectively. All you have to do is change the weight. For guys that hated dragging a Carolina rig, the football jig offered an alternative that didn’t just have to be drug on the bottom. It’s equally effective being hopped, ripped or stroked off structure for fish not hugging the contours. In the last five years of bass fishing, it's become the workhorse of the tackle box.