Another words check them often. For boats that carry live bait any time you get a jig strike or see fish, try to chum them to the boat. Always chum so that the boat will drift over the chum not away from it. You can chum dead bait but be careful that you don't put so much bait in the water that they will follow the sinking bait down. Use light colored jigs on bright days and dark jigs when conditions are darker.
Good patterns are.
Zucchini, Mexican flag, red and white, blue and white, green and white, green and yellow, purple, purple and black, and root beer. If I only had my choice of four. They would be, zucchini, Mexican flag, red and white, and purple and black. My favorite brand of feathered jig is Zukers, because the eyes move. Rig some of your lines with daisy chains.