Yeah, you'll get the hang of it. It took me a while to gain confidence in a system that I was not familiar with too. I was fortunate in that I grew up fishing at Blue Creek as my Dad always packed me around with him on his fishing excursions.(My Father is the ultimate combat fishing champion). Anyway, I was fishing next to a liitle old man by the name of Leo. (Leo's jigs...... Does that ring a bell?) Everybody was drift fishing except for him.... He was using one of his jigs. Everyone was glaring at him like he was an idiot or something. Next thing I know, Leo goes and digs a coffee can of these jigs out of his day pack. He then proceeds tyo start handing them out to ALL of the fishermen at Blue Creek. Most of the guys said thanks and put the jigs into their vests. A few of the guys just tossed them into the river, and about 1/2 dozen people, myslf and my father included, put on the jigs and a couple of old 1-1/2 inch cork floats we bummed from Leo. IN THE NEXT HOUR OF FISHING THE SIX OF US ALL CAUGHT FISH!!!! With a limit for my father and for Leo. You should have seen the scrambling that was going on as people tried to find thos jigs! Also, hardly anyone had bobbers, so anyone who did have one had every jerk off on the bank trying to buy one from them. Since that day I have been a jig fisherman. I've tried to refine things a bit from those old days of using an old eagle claw glass rod with a Zebco reel and 12LB Charterboat line, but the basic theory is still the same. Keep your line out of the water (keep Mending it) and try to produce as dragless a prentation as possible. Talk to some flyfishermen....... They will tell you all about drift mending.