I remember when the A-rig craze hit the Ozarks, I believe that was about 6-7 years ago. That first year it was stupid easy to get fish on it, I personally saw a couple of six+ lbers caught on it, and some pretty good best 5 fish bags. And there wasn't much science to it, toss it around some deep trees and you'd catch bass. It caught some big walleye too, according to one of the retirees I talk to that lives over at Eagle Rock. Nowadays from what I hear, you gotta work that A-rig to catch fish, the easy days are over.
Personally, I don't fish it, just not something I like to fish, but I am not mad at anyone who does.
I got a kick out of Bill's statement that: "You also like any other bait have to throw it where they are, you throw it where they are not, they will not just mysteriously be there. "