I prefer fixed floats.

Fishing in the SRC, it would be hard to use a fixed float and cast your leader with a 20 inch rod, though!

Parker, my pre-SRC fish came on a fixed float...and, yes, it will take you a while to live down rigging up *almost* every team members' rods (eight of them, I believe!) with the bobber stop below the float. The fact that most of the team fished with them for a few casts before noticing the problem should also be hard for them to live down easily!

Due to my need to be the master of my own fishing destiny, I'm glad I took the time to rig my SRC rods myself the night before the SRC, before a kind and helpful soul rigged all mine backwards, too!

The reason I prefer a fixed float is that I like to use a very long float rod (11'), and keep a fairly tight line from my rod tip to my float, with slight tension on the float as it goes down the river.

This allows me feel most strikes before the float even wiggles much, unless fishing really flat water.

Keeping that tension on the line that I like, in moving water, will cause the bait to rise up and the float to slide down the leader, making it hard to maintain the depth I am looking for.

With my long rods, so long as I am fishing less than ten feet of water, you will always find a fixed float attached to my line on the river.

Fish on...

Todd