I do both, longline and push. The beneift to pushing is when you run over a school of fish you can turn on a dime and go get right back on the fish. I push 8 /18' poles with 2 oz on the bottom of line between .8 to 1 mph all the time. That weight will keep it down and the long poles get the bite even when the fish are only 5 feet deep. The deeper the fish the better control of spider rigging or pushing. Hope this helps.