If you need to cast far--use a football jig

These jigs don't get hung up and cast well.  Add a white pork grind to a blue or green jig.

Jigging is similar to using a small worm. Jiggle is forward inc by inc, wait between motion.

I have a friend in the UP of Michigan who is excellent fishing worms--very patient,  a lot of slack in the line.  When we met on a pond in Texas, I was better with jigs; he was better with worms.  We learned from each other--subtleties of  technique.