Friend of mine in Tennessee who guided for years and fished for jacks said he always had the best success once water temps got into the mid-50s and there was at mild to moderate current.

He also fished bigger hair jigs in neon green, chartreuse, yellow or orange tipped with minnows. Worked them below tailraces, not in the immediate current but downstream and/or in channel bends with some depth of 20 feet or more. Depths like that on down the river in bends also worked for him.

Nasty days - cold, clouds, front moving in or having arrived, seemed to be the best.

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