i too fall under the tipless group. if you want to run bait run bait. but jigs trully do fish very well all by themselves. keep the jig horizontal and in the proper zone, and your fishing. i've witnessed summer steelhead hit a jig 3' under a bobber, in a 9' run. so steelhead will rise to a jig just as they would for a surface fly. however winter steelhead the jig must be down in the fishes zone.