Salmon gear for...?

[kjackson]

As I keep working through my tackle stash, I keep running into some stuff I used for salmon in the PNW. Quillback will recognize it, but many won't.  I'm trying to decide if I should keep it and try to find uses for it or if I'd be better off to learn how to eBay the stuff.  What I have is a bunch of divers, a pair of manual down riggers, flashers (both kinds), dodgers, and a bunch of lures--mostly spoons and heavy spinners but also a lot of drift-fishing gear like Spin-N-Glos, Li'l Corkies, and a bunch of various hooks.  Did I mention Jet Divers and side-planers? 

The Spin-N-Glos and Corkies will stay here (walleyes like 'em), but the rest give me pause.  The smaller in-line flashers will probably work for stripers/wipers on deep trolling applications, but the dodgers?  Dunno, y'know.  The side planers might work in the tail race somewhere, but I'm not sure what they'd drag out there.

I'm hoping some of you have experience with salmon gear in use around here and will be willing to help me resolve the stacks of stuff in the basement.

Thanks.

[Quillback]

I have seen some boats out at Beaver using downriggers for stripers, and some using side-planers.  You'd think trolling with flashers or dodgers for stripers would work, but I have never seen anyone using any of that stuff.  

Still have some salmon stuff myself, have a bunch of Silver Horde plugs, they were my go to plug to troll in Puget Sound.  

[kjackson]

In a switch, I used to do fairly well with jerk baits on coho from shore. It didn't seem to work with fish that were staging off the mouths of creeks, but when they were traveling, they would smack it. I wish that I'd played with it a bit at Neah Bay.