So these are heavy spring clothespin type things? Seems easy enough but how deep do you guys fish?

I was thinking another option for 30'+ (if you know you can eat a laker you're gonna probably kill anyway). Tie on a big ol' tinsel jig or a doctor spoon and drift a sunny <ten and >two o'clock (angle of the dangle) day away. It's much more enjoyable than trolling for laker meat anyway. My guess is braid may be better as mono does stretch a bit too much for a barbless jig. I've not jigged that way since that reg came out but could see line stretch being an issue either way.