[jimmythegreek]

I agree with all the posts, but I do it a little different. I dont rly use leadcore cause I dont need it, I either run downriggers for lakers and stack a line for trout, or I use snap weights or inline weights. I use my trolling combos for lots of other duties so leadcore would make little use to me as I mainly troll live bait and usually for stripers, hard fighting fish put a hurting on leadcore. But in ur instance I would do the same setup on all ur leadcore rods and hopefully u have line counters, trolling is all about being able to reproduce whats working, and knowing where ur lure is. U still didnt say what lure u plan on running, so thats gonna play into the setup too. I personally like long leaders, unless Im tieing to mono. mono to floro is 5-6 ft, in clear water like the valley I personally would go 20ft minimum prob more like 50ft. Trout can be very finicky and line shy, 8# seaguar is my RV/MC leader line, for lakers I go 12# floro off 12# mono on downriggers. To see fish 10-20ft down on your graph u are going right over them, ur cone angle is very small, if they are in open water and you are sure its fish then they are trout. If u have a humminbird and the fish ID thing is telling u its fish, it may not be, u wanna use raw sonar data to determine actual fish and bait balls. If you have tattle flags on your planers send them out a ways, 75ft or so is good for a single set, if I run 4 boards I go 60 on insides and 100-110 on outsides, of course if the water is glass and bluebird skies I go further. If your trolling a spoon 3 colors at 1.5mph w a 50ft leader will put u down close to 18ft so its usually best to fish higher than ur marks by a few feet, try one board 2 colors and one board 3 colors and see what works.