Now you've got me a little confused... A couple questions:

1. You say this serves to break the electrical connectivity, but doesn't this defeat the purpose of a black box or Canon's Positive ion control? Do you use vinyl covered downrigger balls?

2. So you snap your release to the nylon cord instead of the wire. Where do you get the nylon cord and how do you connect it to the downrigger wire? Splice?

3. How are you able to get a better feel or a better hookset? Doesn't seem to me that there would be any difference. I can't picture the improvement.