LT,

To combat the problems of differing water speeds between the top and the bottom, you can also extend your leader a bit and use your thumb on your levelwind to slow down the float to what you approximate the speed of the deeper water to be.

It works for me, as you saw this weekend.

I like to think of it as similar to backtrolling when I'm using eggs.

I use a float to weight leader length similar to that of the water depth, then hold the float back with my thumb, allowing the weight to sit at about fishy level and the leader with eggs to drift straight back from it.

The biggest difference is that you'll have to be pretty quick on the hookset, and you'll have to pay attention to smaller movements of the float (indicating fish), as you won't always have the luxury of the float diving down with an audible "pop".

Still on for Sunday? River is dropping fast!

Todd.