Man my eyes were openend up with the Elite guys on Douglas Lake this past weekend. I believe BASS runs it on a week delay so the show will air this coming weekend.
The way they were fishing was new to me. The top guys and probably most the field were cranking in 30-50ft of water with Strike King Series 6XD. Almost all of them were using the same bait and
hitting bottom in those depths with an unweighted crankbait.
http://www.bassmaster.com/news/long-lining-crankbait
Jeremy Starks won the event on Lake Douglas with a better than 4lb per fish average. On that lake its pretty darn good. He also said in a clip from day 4 that he could hit bottom in 50ft with his series 6XD without weight.
Talk about giving the bass something they haven't seen before...The end of a long point was where he was fishing which also had a depression on it. He said there were so many pre-spawners stacked up that he couldn't bring a retrieve in without hitting a fish wit hhis lure and at one point he had slime on his line from running through so many of them.
Check it out this weekend on Sunday where they air the show on ESPN2 (8am-9am eastern time).