The good thing about a jig is they can be fished any place. Pitching and flipping shallow cover, fished deep along ledges and creek channels pretty much any place any time of the year. I love to pitch to shallow cover. Use the lightest jid you can get away with, especially in cold water. My go to is a 1/4 oz. year round, unless I am fishing pretty deep or the wind is blowing so bad I can't keep it on the bottom. I use the size and design of my trailer to help control the fall rate, larger plastic trailers with more appendages tend to make them fall a little slower where smaller more slim line chunks tend to fall a little faster. I always use florocarbon on my jig rod, I like 17lb. xps. Florocarbon is so sensitive when you drag your jig across an old tire you can read the tire size just by feel. When you fish them just think about a crawdad sitting on the bottom and make your jig moove like you imagine it would. The best thing you can do is just devote time to fishing them, you will catch fish and once you catch a few you start to figure things out.