The best float take downs in the world are the ones when you are casting for hours without a hit and you take your eyes off for a few seconds to see whats goin on up river and WHAM bobber down and you are left looking frantically all over the river for your bobber. You would look like the village idiot if you laid into nuthing and your bobber was actually right by your feet.

Nothing is easy steelhead fishing. Normaly you have to work for every fish. I love bobber down, the "spungy" feel of a drift fish take, the "stop" of a fluttering spoon, and the smash of a spinner take. All aspects of steelheading are awsome!
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown