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I don't fish with either very much any more but have all the gear still. Like others I use the penn wire set up with a roller tip for wire line. I think there are better choices if you start from scratch and make a custom but I would go with a roller anytime you use wire. there is too much drag of the Carboloy tip on the wire and it makes for uneven retrieve.
The only lead core set up I have does not have a roller. The rod is a (believe it or not) a heavy Tsunami boat rod that has a soft action. It was not expensive (70 bucks I think) and has has worked well for the lures I pulled with it (spoons and tubes mainly.)
Last year I dusted off the down rigger and used that quite a bit at times. I caught a lot of fish with it esp when the action slowed. The only thing I didn't try but plan to this season is to use it more offshore. I think it will work for tuna and wahoo esp with the depth control features it has. (it has its own transducer and you can tell it to maintain a certain depth or maintain a depth off the bottom or to zig zag thru a depth range) Overall I find they complicate fishing to a degree but they work. If you slow troll a live bunker or squid 4' off the bottom it almost always get eaten by something. I want to try the same with a small bluefish or rigged ballyhoo offshore on a big game set up this season.
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