Going to try it out tomorrow for the first time. A bunch of us are taking servicemen and women out on Great Pond for a Tribute to Service event. Rigged tubes, senkos and pop rs for my anglers but I will mess with the Ned rig on 7' 3" 2 power rod 6lb floro 1/15 oz for the little fishing that I will do. It is all about them but a chance for me to experiment a bit to be sure that we are on fish. Should not be a problem for me on Great Pond.
Question: Did that lake have any weeds on the bottom or was it clean, hard bottom?
Change your mindset about fishing and adopt finesse and you WILL catch many more fish. Now, if there is a downside, you WILL have to weed thru the smaller fish to get a bigger one, but the likely hood of getting the bigger one is much greater with finesse especially in tough conditions like post front blue sky days.