Be careful a big bow may come swipe that Dancer.
I do that a lot in the kayak and did it a lot in my river boat using just oars. Speed or lack there of is the key. I'd catch a bunch of crappie in summer on my crappie spots when they'd move out from spawning areas.
Another technique I want to try is tying a small bell sinker on the bottom then a TM jig onto a dropper loop and fishing it like a micro drop shot. I think I can find some big shellcrakers on a couple gravel channel banks that way.