You sure you weren't using a #2 Aberdeen hook ?? I don't even use a 2/0 hook for plastics when I'm Bass fishing ... LOL !!

Personally speaking ... I use a 1/32 or 1/16oz ball head jig head (unpainted) ... both with a #2 Aberdeen hook & a Y-guard or the fiber brush style weedguard. I have them custom made by P&S Custom Tackle (Vicco, KY). My plastics of choice has changed over the years ... going from BPS Squirmin Squirt hollow tubes to CrappiePro solid body tubes to Bass Assassin Panfish Assassin Tiny Shad to custom poured plastic minnow shaped bodies. They've all caught fish. I prefer to cast jigs for Crappie, so a weedless jighead & plastic trailer is what I use ... so I can get my jig down into/around/over the cover and still expect to get it back 95% of the time.

I don't use floats when casting jigs, and I don't do much vertical jigging. But ... either one of them can/does work. My preferred way of fishing jigs/plastics is to cast and slowly swim the bait back, with a retrieve speed that keeps a slight bow in the line from the rod tip to the water's surface. ANY movement in the line, that I didn't cause (or the wind) ... and I set the hook, hard & fast.

Color preferences are personal choices ... but I like greens & blues with chartreuse tails, solid chartreuse, and solid pink. The Crappie seem to like them, too !! LOL !! I've caught Crappie on a lot of different colors & combinations of colors, but those 4 have been my most productive over the years. I've used those colors on different bodies of water in 3 states, and they've worked in all cases.

... pappy