Jig Fishing

[Bob Smith]

Bama, you live near a lake that practically made jig fishing famous! lake Guntersville is an awesome jig lake! You have boat docks (pitching jigs around docks goes together like peanut butter and jelly!), you have grass edges, you have steep rock banks, riprap shore lines, muscle beds on the river channels, laydown timber in creek channels and shorelines. Pretty much any place where a crawfish would live is jig water. I glimpsed one post on here that mentioned Pork frogs or trailers? Great choice, not only for cold water but for anytime. People have gotten away from using pork, but I haven't! I like both pork and plastic.
As far as "working" a jig, every day is different and every location requires a different approach. I have caught fish vertically, casting, hopping, crawling, swimming, threading and dropping. Sometimes the only indication you get is a "gravelly" feeling or a line jump, or someting that simply gives you that "sensation" that the jig is not doing what it should be doing (set the hOOK!). I use braided line and that has increased my detection and hook ratio dramatically!
Colors are usually pretty basic, greens, browns, black, blues and reds.