PhantomJug wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 11:26pm:

Telling someone how to jig is difficult if not impossible; especially when we are talking about doing it from a canoe.......  I would rather soak a jig than cast a crank bait any day.

Same here! I fish almost exclusively with jigs but do troll an occasional F-18 rap or sometimes even cast a jig. My biggest NP (45") was on a barbless 1/4 oz. jig with a 2" plastic minnow and 6lb test.

I don't endlessly lift and drop, lift and drop. My technique is more like dragging it lightly across the bottom. Sometimes I get the a hefty tug, sometimes it's a light tap, sometimes just a pressure or tautness in the line, sometimes I just see the slack disappear, sometime the line becomes slack. To be very successful you need to recognize all the subtleties of the bite and get the feel for it then get in tune with how the fish are biting.