When I first started work as a fifteen year old a senior angler showed me how to fish what he discribed as "the lift method". He used a float, about 8 inch long, made of a cane stem with two balsa bodies, one an inch below the tip and one just above the eye. The float was attached bottom end only by looping the reel line, passing the loop through the eye, over the float tip and back down to the eye. Tightening the loop onto the eye fixed the float. Adjustment to depth made by easing the loop open and sliding the float on the line. The shot load was less than 2xAAA. The rig was set up with 2 x AAA shot pinched four inches from the hook, which would sink the float, and the depth set so the float just or almost laid flat on the surface. The rod was set on two rests and the reel, a centre pin, was tightened to take up the slack and cock the float. Bites were enormous lift bites and unmissable. I have used this method for years and taken big bags of bream and skimmers. You need reasonable conditions to make it work properly and two rods out is about the maximum distance for it to be effective I found. I never understood the dynamics of the double bodied float, but back then a fifteen year old did as he was told. Pete