TyeeTanic

Definitely the biggest trick is to get them out of warmer water. If you're catching kings at 50 to 60 ft, the steelhead are there are 20 to 30 ft (actually depends on the water temp profile). We target kinds at 48F and steelies come in more like 52 to 54F. The other thing is the pattern. Most of my steelies have come on white tackle, like a wonder bread spoon.

3x paddle length. So for an 11" padle 33" is the leader length. You can use a quick connect swivel so you can change fly colors easy. Some guys ditch the swivel and put in a hoop, so they can tie the fly onto the paddle by going in through the hoop.

Walley or Salmon Fishing? For salmon, my opinion it's not worth the money as you are not going to really be looking for structure. Yes, there is general structure to target salmon, but it's a much bigger picture ... and topo maps are good enough.

Kings stop eating when they get ready to spawn. Their stomachs actually shrink. Irratic motions and brite colors back and forth seem to do the trick. That's why guys like plugs this time of year.

Are you not worried about big hooks around an inflatable watercraft?

A good rod is the talora 8 ft lead core rod. A decent reel for 200 copper is either a Convector cv45 or tekota 700. If you want 300 to 400 copper you should go with a Convector CV55 or tekota 800.

Back to back uni

Smart troll

I prefer to use braid backing as it has no stretch and does not take the wire off track like mono can. I'd add a few hundred feet of braid to get the reel completely full with 1000 ft of wire on.

I can mark my balls on an 83/200 no problem.

Dipsey rod should be stiffer than a downrigger rod.

On riggers I would go with a clean spoon with 20 ft of lead out and one cut bait or whole herring on an 11" paddle, with about 40 to 50" of leader between flasher and spoon, and 20 ft of lead out from cable. On divers I would use flashers and flies. I don't ever use flasher and spoon. Spoon doesn't need the action of a flasher. In terms of depths, you should as a minimum check out this site and determine what depth you want to be in. You want to be fishing in 42F to 48F water. If you can find a slice that's around 30 ft thick with 42F on bottom and 48F on top, that's great. Speed at 2.5 mph average but try changing between 2.2 and 3.0 mph until you generate hits. Remember hits in one direction, may not mean hits in the other direction. Normally if I get hits I confirm depth of line, speed and direction, and color/bait. I then repeat, repeat, repeat.

I live in Oakville. Probably 1/2 mile out and your in 100 ft. Water drops to 60 ft pretty quick. Lots of big salmon being caught in 70 to 130 ft.

Uni knots.

Anywhere from about 1.8 mph to 3.6 mph. Currents can easily be 1 mph in any direction. And as you go along, it changes, so you might need to do 2 mph in one area, and then 2.6 mph in another area. Without downspeed, you can only start at 2.5 mph, and then varie your speed up, then down travelling the same direction, to see if that generates hits. Then repeat, repeat, repeat (in the same direction).

We fish temperature. Put the lures in 45 to 46F water. If you don't have down temp then put the lure just above fish arch. Fish generally come up to strike.

30 lb 7 strand 1000 ft all spooled onto a size 30 reel.

Most guys I know. I'm happy you are different. Lol. It is not a scientific factual point.

Most guys quoting length are saying that at a 1 setting.

The precision trolling app is on Google Play. I think it has dipsey diver info.

When I got started I ran either 4 dispeys or 3 dipseys and 1 flat line down the chute. I caught a lot of fish.

Leadcore should get 20 ft of 20# fluoro leader. Dipsey should have around 8 ft of 30# or 40# fluoro leader after dipsey.