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When the bubble comes to the end of the float, count to ten before you begin your retrieve, slowly, unevenly, taking at least twenty seconds to bring it up within rod's length. The weighted float can be fished upstream, downstream or across. Some accomplished spinmen fish it mostly upstream. This calls for short casts. As the lure comes downstream, these anglers must maintain a light tension and yet not so tight but what the lure can act natural. It's exacting fishing. It is much easier to fish across stream and let your nymph, bait or wet fly work down with the surface-riding bubble; and it can be highly productive, too, as it allows the spinman to fish water which the conventional angler usually cannot reach, thus capitalizing upon the superiority of the spinning tackle. In fishing with a bubble downstream, some extremely long floats can be extracted. As the float rides downstream, open the pick-up and allow the thread line to pay out without drag. Use your index finger to control the release of the line, snubbing it up promptly should a strike be telegraphed through from the front.
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