Mark, you might have read the book , but obviously you didn't understand it. Mr. Herzog was reffering to drift bobber selection, when pink/white/black was mentioned, NOT jigs. and yes against the dark background of the river bottom, white and pink,(among other colors) show up well in shallow water if they are "flourescent" and that is if they are a foot off the bottom, achored by a piece of pencil lead!
it takes light to make anything have color, if that pink jig of yours is above the fish, and the fish is looking into a light colored background, that jig is invisable, as there is no light coming from underneath it, now is there? for those colors afformentioned, (except the black, I'll deal with that in a minute) to work, they must be below or directly at the fish's eye level to appear against a dark background. so you kill them on pink& white? you are fishing very close to the bottom, with the lighter jig against the dark background, and what do you know, it works. try that with the same jig three feet from the bottom.
(I can hear it already ...I do fuzzy all the time.....yeah right) have you ever had a fish visable, and fished over it with a lighter colored jig, only to have it come up and inspect it, and turn it down? thats because when the fish got close, the appearance changed, and it was no longer the dark profile that it thought it was, and the fish didn't commit. black on the otherhand, is best visable against a light background, and should be fished above the fish's line of sight, as should other dark colors like red, purple etc... these colors presented at or below the fish's eye sight are lost in the dark background, and aren't seen near as easily, and often missed completely.
jigman is right, it is the amount of flourescence that is in the dye color that the feathers are dyed with, that makes them appear "bright" in the water, just because something is labeled "flourescent" and looks bright to you in the air, doesnt make it so either. so it pays to know who is doing the dying, and their processes. different materials take dye differently, Saddle, Hackle, Schlappen feathers, and Marabou all take dyes differently, and dye lots, and amounts vary from time to time.
give you the colors that will take your pink/white to the cleaners? surely you jest!

Fuzzy Silent Approach Jigs There IS a difference