Hi Will. I have been using a baroque bow for about 30 years. I always felt that the modern bow - which, after all, has been developed for violin, not fiddle music - is too long for fiddle playing. You'll often see fiddlers holding the bow two or three inches or more above the frog. This has the disadvantage that half the weight of the bow is acting as a counter-balance, and cancelling the other half out. You need the weight for fiddle music. Mind you, you wouldn't want to take too much notice of what I say. I'm the worst fiddler in Christendom.
JK.