Shaggy,

There are as many ways to fish spoons as there are to fish eggs, or any other tackle.

I would recommend Herzog's book "Spoon fishing for steelhead". It gives a wide variety of recommendations on ways to fish spoons, and Herz. has fished just a few.

I typically fish DN's with just enough pencil lead to be able to adequately cast them, attached at the swivel where my leader attaches. Leader I use is rarely over 30".

Personally, I prefer bigger metal...than them little bitty things...but I do try them when nothing else is working. Haven't caught Coho on them either...but did get a nice Dolly on one last weekend.

Mike