The wider the spoon the more water it deflects thus rising to the surface in current.

If your buds are catching them on steelie's I guess they are casting and retrieving in frog water. Any current and they would pop to the surface pretty quickly hence the "tailout" references above.

Still worth buying the book though. If for no other reason then the pictures of Toads page after page after page!
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