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Like your thinking Suppose the fish are feeding on a bed of particles, and you put a pop-up out there. The pop-up level may actually be above the fishes feeding, and so ignored. The fish feeding in the silt, noses in, pop-up is above the carps feeding level, and again, ignored Or a pop-up at 2cms off the lakebed, a big fish approaching from above might not even recognise that the bait is off the bottom. My view with pop-ups, you need to know what type of silt, or lakebed you are fishing over, and to some extent, the depth of the silt. No point fishing a pop-up with the weight 2cms under the hook if the silt is 3cms deep, and smelly, thick and black. You need the pop-up to be above the silt and bottom debris. Also no good fishing a pop-up above the level the fish are feeding at.