I don't know why anyone would use a downriger, when you have that much fishing going on. You spend to much time rigging up and not fishing.
Get that rod in your hand, slap on a herring and mooch.
If you can get it down to the bottom, you need to work the bottom twenty or thirty feet. There are a lot of kings at other depths also, but too much action is a real bummer. ( too much rain, sun,wind, waves, not enough fish, too much fish, Don't worry I am never happy either. Who ever thought we would ever complain about to much fish.
Please don;t take me wrong, I am just trying to be funny.
Good fishing