I'm going to chime here as a relatively inexperience angler --- I had no idea how to do this until this summer! I was completely baffled by this "jigging thing" even though it's very popular and effective. I finally took some advice that I received on one of the fishing threads here and researched (via youtube-- no kidding  :) --- a "how to" clip. It gave me enough of the basics that I could start practicing...and I've had enough 'success' (i.e. a fish here and there) to keep working away at it. It IS great fun...and I love hunting down the 'structures' by reading the banks, slopes and lake contour maps (...as I save up for that eventual depth-finder ;)). Jig on.