Ready to do a little fall steelheading.

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The major difference is pretty major. Drift fishing is bouncing your presentation along the bottom with a sinker. Float fishing is slip-bobber fishing - hanging your presentation down from the surface. It usually requires a sinker too of course, but it's an entirely different principle.

Beads can be fished either under a bobber or drifted. Spin and glows are used primarily for plunking and backtrolling, but you can drift them too. Wouldn't really work under a bobber unless you wanted to really get out of the box.
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