The advice on tackle is spot on for coho in my experience. Mooching is killer for coho, if you just have to troll I like a 3.5 coyote spoon in cop car, blue magoo and funky chicken colors for coho. Cop car, or uv green typically for kings. If hootchies are what you want to run its hard to beat the uv green, purple haze, triple glow white etc.
But that time of year mootching would likely get the nod. I also run 30# maxima mainline, 20-25# leaders at 6-8' with 4/0 Matzuo sickle hooks as I feel they hold better then standard salmon shanks.
I use the newer 9'6" Lamiglass E-glass Rods on my riggers or trolling with Shimano Tekota 500's, 9'6" x96j casting rods with a Quantum cabo for mooching if level wind trips my trigger but most of my mooching is done with a 10'6" loomis and an Islander MR2 ( antireverse direct drive single action reel, no knuckle busting and a [bleep] ton of fun with the soft rod and no gears, but its not cheap reel)
