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1) Diver Setups - I like my Daiwa Accudepth Plus 47LCB reels. I run both braid and wire off of these. Reels with smoother drags are important for divers. For rods, I've been using Okuma dipsey rods (the ones that sell for about $35). 2) I like black or clear divers, but will run orange & yellow when fishing up higher up in the water column (diver settings on 3 or 3.5 or the smaller divers) 3) I don't use snubbers unless I'm using mag divers. I use 20 lb test flouro leader. Haven't snapped a fish off yet. The snubbers you say stretch too much have several strands of heavy monofilament inside them - I would doubt you're gonna have anything snap the snubbers themselves. 4) For planer boards I run Okuma Pro GLT trolling rods - the specifically the ones made for copper trolling. I run both longer leadcore & copper off of these rods. For short leadcore segments and mono trolling i like the Okuma Pro GLT precision trolling rods in 7'10". 5) I use both copper & leadcore. They both work. I like leadcore for getting down to about 5 to 30 feet, whereas copper for 20 through 80 feet. 6) I run rigger rods like you do with 20 lb test mono. I like the stretch of mono - and have not run braid off the riggers. If I'm fishing spoons only, I've run down to 12 lb test on lighter rods. 7) I don't run leaders for the downrigger rods. 8) Lakers - 5 to 20 feet. Steelhead & browns - generally 50+ for spoons. 9) Spoons... I run all sorts of spoons. My highest used ones are Dreamweaver Super Slims, Silver Streak Mini's, Silver Streak Mags, Moonshine, Stingers. It's easy to buy too many spoons - and then have trouble deciding what to run. 10) I just run orange & reds shallower, greens/yellows below the orange, greens/blues below that. Put out more of whats working if you see a pattern. 11) How would you be using flasher/fly setups? It can be a little crazy figuring this out. It really varies by time of year, the fish you're fishing for, what depths the fish are at... 12) Change speeds until something works. Then replicate. I fish from 1.8 to 4 mph.

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