Give FC a cigar! That's very true. And people don't really believe this until someone shows them the light.

I was lucky enough to get a chance to parasite fish next to Nick Amato for summer runs a few times. One time several years ago, we were fishing the Hood river in Oregon and I had already made a half-dozen casts in a really nice looking hole when Nick asked if I cared if he tried it out. I said "not at all, please do". I watched as he tossed in and immediately pulled back on his float....he waited a second or two and then let it go. It didn't go half a foot downstream when the float went under.

He smiled and said, "Don't feel bad, it took me a while to dial this hole in......but there's almost always one there if you get your jig where they live. You have to tug back a couple econds to let your jig fall just a bit before your flaot moves out of the sweet spot." That 2 second pull was the difference between a fish and passing over that fish.

In any case......I'm pretty sure more fish get caught drift fishing, but I think that's just a numbers game. More people do it, so they catch more fish. I know that since I started primarily float fishing, I've caught many more fish. More effective technique? Just more fish around recently? Maybe I just learned something after all these years? Who knows.....it doesn't matter anyway.

Everybody has their favorite technique, and "rating" techniques is a fool's game (Sorry Zog). Fish the method that you dig, fishing isn't about numbers anyway.