RE: these conditions...what would YOU have done?
Always hard to know what to do. Worming is also good like you did but takes alot of time. Shoot...if they had cat-tails around 5 ' of water I would have flipped all day. Another thing my reaction lure would have been a 3/8 ounce Rooster -tail fished just fast enough to turn the blade and just off the bottom.
Chuck
PS The picture in my signature was caught just like that. 3 pounder