Earlier this fall, mid-October, I used the regular 1/16 midwest finesse head coupled with a Slick Shiner on rock rip rap on the Mississippi and caught a mess of walleyes with a couple smallies tossed in.
Yes, where the bait met the head wasn't exactly a flush fit but the fish certainly did not care. The rip rap was real steep, maybe only 15-18 feet deep only 6 feet from shore. The boat was kept about ten feet from where rock met mud and the jigs were pitched to the rock and allowed to swim down slowly. The Shiner stood just about straight up as the jigs fell. Cool way to fish that rock.