I don't disagree with you at all John.
I have the tendency to think that due to on a good pompano bite that there are normally a huge number of people throwing jigs, sometimes shoulder to shoulder and 100 anglers down the east side of the pier. With that many jigs being sent to the bottom, I want mine to be different than all the rest, and definately different than the 10 on each side of me. Color, shape, size, length, flash, no flash anything that would seperate mine from the other 100 or more jigs bouncing on the bottom.
I love the feel of the first 2 seconds of sticking a good size pompano. Dang.