Funny you mention the jig thing.

I was down at Blue Creek about 20 years ago, and the guys using jigs at the creek mouth were killing the fish and the drift fishers, well, weren't. I cruised up to Andy's place and asked him if he could set me up with a jig and float. He looked at my rod/reel, and said that I wasn't really geared for jig fishing, but he could set me up to do the best with the gear I had. Got me a styro float, a couple Leo's jigs, and some shrimp oil.

He showed me how to rig it up, and off I went to hang with the jig crowd. I looked like a monkey phucking a football for a while, but got my float out in the sweet water in a short time. Float down, fish on.....first fish spanked. A couple casts later......float down, fish on......second fish spanked.

Then I did a really stupid thing. I stopped fishing jigs up until about 6 years ago. What a dope.

I'm pretty well convinced that if I had listened to Andy about getting a spinning outfit, and fishing jigs all the time, that I could have done waaaay better in certain situations over the years than with the gear I was using. Andy was always a good guy.