You float and fly guys need to get out more

Geo is absolutely right, what the guy was calling float and fly is not float and fly, it's just fishing a jig under a slipfloat, something that crappie fisherman have done for decades if not longer. That's actually the INSPIRATION for float and fly, if I remember correctly. Guys who were fishing a jig under a slip bobber were thinking they were missing strikes that came up from underneath the bait, because the bobber didn't do anything, so they modified a weighted bobber to be slightly top-heavy, so it would lay over if there wasn't any weight under it.

Geo, my friend, there are a lot of people out there who believe that float 'n' fly fishing is done with a slip bobber. It's not their fault, they're just ignorant, poor ******** Best thing we can do is educate them. I posted another response, backing you up.

Take a deep breath,

RoadToad