Ron,

I got me two of them long rods. Got two that are 10'6" long.. I use both of them for tossing floats and jigs (or whatever).

Last year when I tried float fishing for the first time I thought it was just like fly fishing with the float acting as a fly. This year I've taken to running fly line cleaner (ala mucilin) on my spinning line to make it float so I can mend it.... just like mending a fly line.

Dang... the more things change, the more they remain the same.