Anyone fish spinners with the same technique as they do spoons?

I fish them as follows and with that said I haven’t caught crap on a spinner \:\)

I haven’t fished spinners much but they say for summer runs you want to cast them upstream into the heads and then reel the spinner down stream for Steelhead. Same goes for shallow faster moving water in the summer, cast upstream and reel downstream.

Why reel down stream, are they to hard to keep near the bottom during the swing if you were to fish them like a spoon?
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