I have tried and tried to gain confidence in a jig but just can't seem to get on a good jig bite. I have guide fished with it and fish with numerous friends that primarily fish a jig, but still minor results for me. Must not be holding my mouth right!! I will stick to shaky head and Tx rig I guess.

Get a black/blue jig and trailer or one with a green pumpkin color skirt and matching trailer and pitch it to stumps along the edge of a creek channel. Concentrate on the bends in the creek and on the biggest timber in the area. Pitch it beyond the stump and shake and crawl that jig through the roots of the stump. You will get bit.

The four color jigs I use most are black/blue, a blend of green pumpkin, Peanut butter n jelly, and a custom color I make.
On the green pumpkin color I use ones that have accent colors of either purple or orange in the skirt.

Take a skirt like this (except I like black and blue), remove about 1/2 to 3/4 of the strands (I only like to have about 15 to 20 strands, too many creates drag on top of the water when skimming across), slip on your line between your texas rigged Sweet beaver and A Tungsten weight....don't peg the weight (the weight and this type of skirt with a ceramic grommet will clack against the tungsten, flip under dock...hold on!

Disclaimer...this will not work if you can't flip a dock correctly. getting your Beaver only 1/4 to 1/2 way under a dock is not the proper way. You must reach the far dark corners of the dock....all the way under the dock. If you can't do this PRACTICE!

A dock that has only 6" or less of a gap to flip your bait under holds more fish than a dock with a foot or more. When I say getting a bait "all the way under a dock" I mean having the ability to scoot that bait 5 / 10 even 15 yards under the dock with 6" clearance or less.

I have developed my own way of accomplishing this. It's a hybrid of your typical flip and an under arm sweep at the same time. I put enough momentum in my under arm sweep to put a good sized dent in a pontoon if I miss....dock owners love me! A Beaver can actually skim or ski across the top of the water with lots of momentum. A jig will a lot of times dig in and fall short. Do I ever miss?, get horendous backlashes?....Hell yeah I do but that's part of it. 20# mono is important, leave all that braid and fluoro junk on the bank! Braid is not your friend when it comes to backlashes.

Become a master at removing backlashes...this is not my video, just one I found on you tube