Quote Originally Posted by peter View Post
I'll take a stab at it. The fly is so light and the float is so small the weight of the fly would not be heavy enough to pull the bait down through the bobber?
Might also have to do with the action of the bait which is created by "wiggling" the rod.

Seems like you could just put a slip shot a foot or so above the fly.

In any event I am displaying my ignorance here.

Sure would make things simpler gear wise.
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I am out of my element here also but I did try the technique a couple years ago and had the problem peter described with the slip float... The major peoblem I had was landing the fish with the fixed bobber and it just wasn't worth the frustration to me... I never tried the split shot above the jig... The slip float would seem much better to me if you could just get the jig to sink... You might lose the ghost hit with the additional weight on the line.