Nookie you got it figured out. If you put a jig next to the pilings that the fish swim next to with mouths gapping open, gasping for oxygen and blinded by mud sooner or later an open mouth will have a line in it. It will pull on a rod and some rod will slam that jig hook into the corner of a fishes mouth or the roof of its mouth and claim the fish must be sucking that pretty jig out of the mud. With a sensetive rod and a quick trigger you can out fish the the pink, orange and chartruse jigs with any color you want and hookem in all sorts of places. When the fish are fresh and the water is cool eggs under a float on the ditch is one of my favorit things to do. That being said I will admit to flossing a s^%$load of kings up there with a big glob of eggs next to a corkie a couple feet below a 1" chunk of pencil lead. This will get you real bitters and flossed fish and you will learn to know the differance buy how far the rod moves before the hook strikes jaw bone and weather its hooked inside out or outside in. If its hooked in the head its a Keeper and its your choice what to do with it. 99.9% of those fish are hatchery fish and most will be wasted if they make it by the nets in the bay and the sporties on the stinky muddy bank of our beloved ditch. Its not a lovely fishing experiance but it can be a hellovalotafun. I don't condone this type of fishing on a real river and I will never fish it with a jig unless its under a bobber. The ditch is no more than a entrance to a fish factory when it comes to those KINGS???? What ever you chose to do enjoy it and to hell with what anyone else thinks as long as your within the law.
Hope to see you up there in the next 6 weeks...Art