DK,

Here are a few reasons...

1. Uneven water depths throughout a drift are more easily fished while driftfishing.

2. While it is satisfying to watch a float rip down, it pales in comparison to the throb of a hit on drift gear.

3. Some water is too shallow to fish appropriately with a float.

4. In some situations a light weight and small bait is less intrusive than a float, if you're fishing shallow water.

And...at the risk of starting an international incident a LOT of the float fisherman I see on the Vedder are flossers. They use really long leaders behind their weight, with pretty short leaders from the float to the weight. When they swing it through the schools of fish, it's pretty effective, but it's flossing.

Plenty of the guys I've fished with up there don't fish that way, but plenty of them do.



Fish on...

Todd.