Speaking of Tomic plugs...anyone know why they stopped putting a welded ring (to tie to) on them? Our hot plug at Ucluelet was on old 6 in that I had and rarely used down here. We bought new 7 in plugs that still didn't catch many fish (silvers will hit anything up there), until we noticed the old plug had the ring and the new ones didn't. We added split rings to tie to and the hot plug the last day was one of the new ones. My guess is that it allows more action from the plug at a slower speed. Any other thoughts?

Another tip is to tie a flasher to your downrigger ball about 6ft back and then stack the plug about 6ft above it, 40 ft back.