I fish an IMX 1084c in the winter and float fish about 50% of the time. Its a great rod and drift fishes great. As far as float fishing goes its OK. Somtimes I wish I had somthing a little longer but it does the job. The biggest problem ive had with it is the reaction time to the take down when using floats. It shines when float fishing in small rivers but when you get on big water and have allot of line out thats when you run into ploblems.

I fyour going to use it for both than its a good choice. I dont have an 1143 but have heard lots of good things.