Big Deep Fish

[jooleyen]

I'm in need of some tips here. I need to catch some bigger fish with more than just one technique. I'm gonna try to get really detailed.

My dad and I fish at a really deep quarry. (seems to get down to about 60 feet right at the bank)
It's ultra clear and rocky. There are nice smallies and largemouth in it. My dad landed about a 7 pound largemouth and about a 4 pound smallmouth. We've both had numerous 4+ pounders come from this place.

There is one technique that will catch the bigguns. It sounds really dumb, and I think it's really dumb, but it works VERY well at this place. We just walk along the bank, drop a jignpig down the ledges about 10-15' and bounce it slowly for suspended fish. I've used a dropshot, but I catch small ones. Would maybe a senko work better on a dropshot than a little finesse bait? Are the little ones all the way on the bottom? I always have crankbaits tied on no matter where I am, and I'm extremely confident in them, but I normally catch small ones. Very small - like 12". I will cast the shallow diving cranks parallel to the bank and walk it over the rocks, getting reaction strikes, but those are the little aggressive fish.
I've caught a couple of four pounders on crankbaits, but very rarely. I've only caught big ones throwing crankbaits onto what is either a big mound or just a transition from deep to shallow and catch fish, but it's been failing me lately. I'm just sick of bouncing a jig, because I know I won't be able to apply the technique to other lakes as well as I could with a crankbait or spinnerbait or other technique. I also know that that jig technique might not be working at the time, so I need a backup. There is also three corners of the quarry with shallow water and matted grass. I've caught a couple in the grass. There is also a slow tapering point adjacent to the "big mound or just a transition from deep to shallow".

So far, my idea list to catch big fish consists of :
1.Bouncing a jig.
2.Dropshotting a big soft stick bait.
3.Slowly yo-yo-ing a lipless crankbait near the bottom of very deep water.
I've got some more ideas, but they don't really seem realistic. Who knows.

So... Any ideas on catching bigger fish? Not just with a jig.

Thanks,

Julien