Sorry Marty, have to disagree with you on this one and so would many others including float fishing author Dave Vedder. You only want the top 1-2 inches of your dink float showing. Line control and for the sometimes extremely subtle take on your presentation.
SNAGLY, why not just scale down your slinky size, said it yourself in your first sentance, the weight is your problem. So for the Canadian style dink floats now found just about everywhere instead of using a 10 shot slinkie with .300 grain lead, use 8.
For a 12 shot slinkie of .270 grain lead shot use 11 shot. This is exactly what I use slinkie cord shot and all. I am also using about a 3 foot leader with my jigs. Remember jigs are strictly a visual thing and are usually fished in water with 6+ feet of visability. In low clear water conditions I'll with slow to medium flow I'll use a small "Thill" float with no weight, just a jig.
If your float fishing jigs another thing to remember is that you dont want your system
coming straight down river at the fish vertically,(Jig head first) You actually need to thumb your spool and hold back a little on your set up, thus jig hook coming at the fish first, followed by head, leader, weight, ect. Your hook-ups will improve greatly too, keeping a little presure on your line as you back it down the run.
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[This message has been edited by JohnnyCoho (edited 03-25-2000).]