"Gettin-it-done" with the long rod is correct. I had a guy in my boat last year that had no patience at all. He wanted to learn something so I took him along. He had his own equipment and had fished it before so it was not totally new to him. He casted well, worked the jig well, and did all the right things. The problem was that after about 20 minutes of no action, he laid down the long rod and went to jigging. Fishing was very tough, high blue skies, no wind, tough conditions for any fishing. I kept changing depths, retrieves and flies until my first pulldown mid to late morning and landed a 3 1/2 pounder. He picked up the long rod again and tied on the same jig, same depth and everything but after a short while gave it up again. To make a long story short, I caught 4 fish that day all over 3 with biggest just shy of 4, all on the fly and he never got a bite on any bait that he threw. Each time I landed one, he would try it again but never longer than 30 minutes before he gave up on it again. It took all day and a lot of changing to land those 4 but last I checked 4 was better than none any day. You have to have patience, persistance, flexibility and confidence to fish the fly.