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If you are trolling for salmon or trout, you don't need SI or DI. Yes, it will show you which side bait is on, but honestly, if your screen is bright red, the bait balls right under your transducer.

That sounds like a good price. More important how are they preparing the hull? They should remove the mold release wax, sand or sand blast to etch the gelcoat (do not remove the gelcoat completely). What paint are they using? I use Micron CSC and it only needs a touch up here and there every year. Are you planning to apply a barrier coat before the anti-fouling coats?

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Yes. You want your highest line to the outside so when a fish hits it goes over your deeper lines. If you have a deeper line on the outside it will cross your shallow line once a fish hits and draws the line to the center of your spread. Only thing is the 2 color and 3 color have the same sink rate, so they are basically at the same angle. Normally when a fish hits it will go up and to the center of the boat. So the 2 color might clear the 3 color better if it is in between the mono and 3 color. Not sure on this one. Ideally you want 3 lines with different sink rates, with the deepest sink rate on the inside.

Copper sinks on its own. Get about 15 to 20ft depth per 100 ft of copper out. But it's dangerous to put copper down the chute (middle), although some people do. If another rod hits a fish that line will cross into the copper and you will have a mess on your hands. Most guys will put the copper on an online planer board like a TX44. This pulls the line to the side of the boat and out of the way.

Braid. Copper takes up a lot of space so you need to be efficient with your backing line.

300 copper is the most popular size on Lake Ontario. Need a big reel for that like a CV55 (I got 280 ft on a CV45). You need to add backing normally broad to save on space and at least 500 ft. Then add the copper and finally a 15 ft fluoro leader 20 lb test. Need to put it on carefully and let it out slow so it doesn't tangle. Best used when fish are 50 ft or deeper. We just add it to our spread of 6 to 8 rods. Have 1 or 2 put. Normally put meat on one and a spoon on the other.

Beckman net with 10 ft extendable pile. I thing the opening is like 40" or so. For some big fish it's still a little small. Lol.

Exactly what I do. It works.

Any leadcore rod with the large all metal eyes. You will have some bigger than normal knots going through those eyes, so the cereamic eyes don't work! I have the talora rods - they are great, but $$.

SWR.

We generally move to spoons and definitely flies which we feel are more effective. Not saying plugs won't work but flies work better. If it's slow then we might put a plug on to see.

300 would be the most popular length used so I would say go with that.

Are you using single strand or multi strand like 7 or 19? If I get a kink it generally doesn't break for me but always happens in the first foot so I just cut off that small piece and reterminate. It's no big deal. I have wire setups that are going into their 5th year.

Why is wire a pain? I find it pretty easy to use.

Interstate. They have a good guarantee as well.

Fleas. That's the main issue. Wire cuts through them and they accumulate bad on braid. Wire also has a humm cutting through the water that supposedly attracts fish.