In Australia majority of our fishing involves structure and there's plenty of it. When I'm not fishing dams I'll be pushing up rivers to hard to reach honey holes and 9 times out of 10 the banks are littered with massive trees that eventually will be swept into the river from yearly floods. I've swam for most of my lures even little 2.5inch paddle tails, it's just an regularly occurring thing in our realm ask anyone that fishes for bass in Australia,