Nameless Fish

I run meat rigs at the same speed I run everything else for salmon, 2.3-2.8.

I think most people back their LC setups with braid, but it depends on how many colors you're running. 12lb mono backing is prolly fine for shorter brown trout LC setups (1-3 colors) but anything you plan to target salmon with I use 30lb or 50lb braid as backing. I don't use the alberto knot but I do my tie my knots the same way by removing lead and tying to the sheath.

Looks like this should work... https://www.amazon.com/Propeller-Johnson-Evinrude-Outboard-114848/dp/B013QRZCOC

Backing is necessary! 100yds of 25lb mono then your 1000ft of wire will fill a 30 size Okuma reel. Check the spooling chart at the top of this section of the forum.

They are too close together depth-wise or you're trying to run a deeper copper over top of a shallower dipsey. Your deepest setups should be closest to the boat with the shallowest the furthest away. Set your dipseys deeper or run shorter coppers. Or there is something wrong with your dipseys and they aren't diving to where you think they are (loose/broken ring, loose weight?).

When I initially start I do boards then dipsey then riggers, always seemed to work well. But if I get a fish on a board I've never had issues getting the boards out over my dipsey lines. I use inline boards as well, when deploying them I will free line them way down the center before I engage the drag and swing them over to their respective sides. Only thing I can think of for the OP issue is if the dipsey and copper are both running at a similar depth you could have issues while deploying. My board lines are usually my highest lines so I don't have issues going over deeper setups like dipseys.

Rain, T-storms, scattered fish and deep temps.

No problems other than it's prolly a little shorter than what most ppl use for leader. I run 20-25ft personally but 10 is better than 0.

Bottom jaw and I only have 3-4ft of rope, just enough to submerge the fish. I don't want it long as sometimes I need to lean over and steady the fish so I don't drag it upside down.

Depends on where you're fishing out of, but personally I would come late July/August. There should be fish to catch out of any port at that time.

That's salmon staging time, means lots of boat traffic, picky fish, and likely some fish already gone in the river. Also means larger fish, in a smaller area, closer to shore... pros and cons to that time of year.

Usually you run dodgers at slower speeds than you do for flashers. That being said, flashers are more speed tolerant than dodgers. So if you were to try and run the two at the same time I would suggest to try running in the dodgers speed range which is like 1.7-2.0. But personally I would run one or the other, dodgers below 2.0 and flashers above 2.0.

Download the Navionics app on your phone, just as good if not better maps than you will find on most mapping cards.

There's no "turning on" an e-chip... all it is, is a small metal ball that hits some kind of microchip crystal as it spins and is supposed to give off a small electrical impulse. I've never seen any flasher with something that needed to be charged before. Could have been a UV light they were using to charge the glow paint on the flasher? They make lighted flashers as well but I think they just use small watch batteries.