Hooked_Up,

It may be that jigs just aren't the best bet at your lake. Some lakes are just poor jig lakes for whatever reason.

I do believe that color is important, but it's more about shade than color. If the water is murky, looks black colored or dark green, I like a black jig. I seriously only fish one color of black jig and it's black and red. If the water is clear, has light green or pale brown grass, or the bottom is generally brown or sandy, then I use brown jigs. I like the Assalt brown/copper color or just plain brown. It's kind of vague, but I try to go with what looks right. Sometimes black jigs look right in the water and other times brown jigs look right. Throw your jigs in 1 foot of water and look and see if they 'look right'

For my black/red jigs I like black/red trailers :) For the brown jigs I'll go with watermelon red flake, brown, or brown/purple. I like the red bluegill Assalt spyder grub on my brown jigs because it has a neutral look to it. The color is basically smoke with red/gold/silver flake. But it's not flashy at all in the water. Some guys like contrasting jig trailers, I don't. Crawdads aren't contrasting, they're one color and I want my jig to be basically one color or one shade.

What about the rest of your setup? What pound test are you using and what is the water visibility exactly? Maybe you need to go down in line size to get bit if the water is clear. Take a minute to read about Mike Long's 17.2 at Jennings on bassfanarmy.com

http://www.bassfanarmy.com/bfa_news_article.asp?id=26

I don't think Mike is pulling any punches there and the key thing he says is that he's using 12lb. If you're looking at 8+ foot visibility, its' going to be hard to get bit on a jig on 20lb. It can happen but it's just less likely.

My main message though to you is that maybe it's just not the right thing for the conditions right now at the lakes you are fishing. I know it's easy to get caught up in wanting to learn a certain technique because you see people getting fish on it, but that doens't mean you can ignore the realities of the conditions where you are fishing. A more productive thing if you want to expand into new techniques might be to take what works for you already, then try to expand on that with similar baits, different colors etc.

-Rob