Numbskull has endless knowledge/experiments on anything made in the Donny style and I've never made them using the high slot lip although I made several variation using a mid slot lip to make surface swimmers in that size. (same lip position)
From my basic observation I noticed in all sizes, (I've made them tail weighted, non-tail weighted and fished them with a rear treble) when floating leveled it gave me a better swimming plug that was more appealing to the eye. When floating with the nose slightly angled down gave me a more versatile plug. I never fished the smaller ones in big water so it wasn't a concern but with the senior size I felt like the few surface swimmers I built without a tail weight held better in bigger water (nose angled down slightly). Could have swam with far less finesse but I could feel it at it slower retrieve where as the tail weighted versions seem to give out if I fished them in chop.
Strange as it goes against compensating for the rear hook but then again I've read that most fished the Donny stuff in calmer conditions and the Danny stuff in stirred up conditions.
As far as how deep yours sit I think you are fine. If I remember correctly I've read a tid bit where Numbskull mentioned he thought the plug began to swim sooner when sitting lower.
Maybe he will chime in as I'm
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