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[Shmoke Shaman]

I know that this might be kind of off topic but it might save another post.

For this float & spinner technique, would I be able to use other spinners like vibrax or koho?
My guess is that they might be too heavy and will not perform as well.

[Every Day]

I know that this might be kind of off topic but it might save another post.

For this float & spinner technique, would I be able to use other spinners like vibrax or koho?
My guess is that they might be too heavy and will not perform as well.

Vibrax might work, I know people tend to do blue foxes under floats and they can work well.
Koho as far as I know only make spoons (although I could be very wrong on that one). Spoons won't work very well under a blade if at all.

[nickredway]

If you need to get down in deep with a spoon just add some weight, I was always told it wrecks the action but some wiser heads turned me on to this and it works well in deep canyon water - with a float its harder to tell what the spoon is doing, I like direct contact to feel that fishy bump bump action. I've tried using using blue foxes but they always want to ride up in the water column, to get them down I prefer to use no float cast them upstream and dead drift them downstream and then swing them out at the end.

[mr.p]

I have used spoons under floats with some success.  Its all about presentation.  You have to fiddle around and figure out what technique creates the action you want.  Dead drifting a spoon probably will not work unless the current is really really heavy.

When I put a spoon under a float, its usually a hailmary attempt after I've tried everything else.  One recent example came last steelhead season.  A buddy and I had pounded a run with everything...  I decided to throw a large ironhead spoon under my regular float and split shot setup....few casts later, FISH ON!

[nickredway]

Nice fish!

[jacked55]

Thanks for all the tips guys. This turned out to be a great resource of information on the topic.

[Shmoke Shaman]

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[fishseeker]

I have used spoons under floats with some success.  Its all about presentation.  You have to fiddle around and figure out what technique creates the action you want.  Dead drifting a spoon probably will not work unless the current is really really heavy.

When I put a spoon under a float, its usually a hailmary attempt after I've tried everything else.  One recent example came last steelhead season.  A buddy and I had pounded a run with everything...  I decided to throw a large ironhead spoon under my regular float and split shot setup....few casts later, FISH ON!

Not always so.  Last weekend on the Vedder ALL my hits were dead drifting light colorados in slow current - it surprised me.  Until this season I would have agreed with you.

[mr.p]

Oh, I agree...dead drifting blades and spinners does work.  Even if very light flow colorados will spin on their own.

I was talking about spoons....koho, croc, ironhead, whatever.  I can't see those having much action being dead drifted unless the flow is heavy.