If you think in relation to current speed how fast your gear is moving between float fishing and drift fishing, its different. Float fishing is presenting the jig a little faster than current speed where the fish are since the float is on the top. Water at the top of the river is moving faster than water on the bottom. The water is hitting the bottom and slowing it down compared with on the top. So I imagine drift fishing is going slower than current speed since it is in the slower water on the bottom and the lead is touching the bottom and slowing it down. Both techniques catch fish so I don't know if you have to worry about it too much.

~ Dr Pepper

[ 12-22-2001: Message edited by: Dr Pepper ]