Here's my take:
Hot Spots:
summer kings
42 - 44 inches for hoochies, 40 inches or so for spoons.
blackmouth
36 - 38 inches for hoochies
same on the spoons
silvers
38 - 40 inches for hoochies, 34 - 36 inches for flies
Metallics like Abe & Al
kings (summer & BM,) & silvers
28 inches for hoochies
31 inches for flies
same for spoons
This one worked the best for the silvers in Sekiu this year, cop car coho killer or old style size 3 "freak" spoon 40 inches behind a large fish flash. As you can see I rarely run bait, but I always marinate some herring in anise & WD-40 to add as strips to the hoochies & flies, not on the spoons as it kills the action.
Good luck and tight lines, Jeff