Wally Marshal's latest video and the video from Ernest Paty are full of examples of shooting docks with jigs....don't know why it wouldn't work to pitch minows on jig heads the same way.
I will be back on the home lake, hillsdale, on Sunday. Hope to try Chat's technique arround the trees.. the wife and I slaughtered them a few years ago by casting minnow on bobbers up to limbs barely submerged in the lake. The crappie were so aggressive that day, I watched several jump over the limb to get to the minnow. That was a fun day!