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Hello, this being my first year, has been a great learning process so far.
Is it safe to say at this point that the coho and other salmon have now gone deeper in the water column? Am i spinning my tires using 5/8ths weight with dodger/fly?I will be getting my downriggers and dipsys set up soon.

From the look of my graphs, it looks like i should be fishing 15 ft and down now, does that sound right? Will dodger/peanut flies still produce at these depths or should i be running flashers and larger flies or spoons? My setup will be 4 dipsy rods and 2 downriggers, as this is all new to me what would be a good setup for that 6 rod spread?

Sorry for so many questions but just looking for some direction, you guys here have been a great wealth of knowledge and have really enjoyed myself out there this year so far!
Thanks

They follow water temps. They like to stay in their comfortable range up to about 52 degrees. They will come out of temp into the warm water to feed but they will go back to their comfort temp. Watch the noaa sea surface charts and the bouy chains temp graphs if you don't have a fish hawk or depth raider.

Okay, I'll look at those chain temps, no fish hawk or depth raider here.

lot of fish still coming on yellow birds and 5/8 sinkers, could always use a little bigger keel weight, pay attention to depth of your hits and try to concentrate your baits there, far as your spread when you move out typical spread would be 2 rigger, 2 dipsy, 2 long lines, that would be copper or lead

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lot of fish still coming on yellow birds and 5/8 sinkers, could always use a little bigger keel weight, pay attention to depth of your hits and try to concentrate your baits there, far as your spread when you move out typical spread would be 2 rigger, 2 dipsy, 2 long lines, that would be copper or lead

Thanks, i won't be running lead or copper but i can run tadpoles to get me down 25 or so. What would you typically run off the long lines-spoons? Or could i run a dodger fly set up?

Also i never run downriggers yet, how far back from my cannonball should i be putting spoons back? Thanks again

You can run everything on lead and copper. Riggers lead back from ball anywhere from 50 to 100. Now if your feeling frisky through a 2 color lead on your downrigger, people call that the secret weapon rig (swr).