hi everyone.
im lazy so thought i would combine a hello with a question
lets start with the hello.
Hi all my girlfriend and i have just moved to malta. im english and she is swedish and we are now living in Gzira (if anyone ever wants to meet for a drink just give me a shout) we are 24-31. so neither of us know much at all about fishing but we both bought some fishing rods and reels the other day as well do enjoy a bit of amature fishing (10 pound line im told with size seven hooks and a 5/8 wieght well that might be wround but thats what i can remember)
Anyway wanted to ask a little about bottom fishing. from what i can see when watching a few of the local fishermen it looks like you just have a normal setup just without the float so that you can get the depth? now i might be very stupid but i just imagen cashing out and then everything sinking with the wieght and all the hooks/bait laying on the bottom in the silt where very few fish are going to bite. do i perhaps need to get some kind of small floats just to keep the hooks out of the dirt?
anyway thanks alot everyone

Pete & Jana
P.S. (please dont use to much fishing talk as i have no idea for the names of most of the things...hehe)