Kerry wrote on Jul 26^th, 2013 at 12:18pm:

solotripper wrote on Jul 25th, 2013 at 6:55pm: Just a thought Kerry, why not combine the 3-way swivel with the snap-weight. I've done this. Take a 3-way swivel and attach mainline to one side with your braid and a good swivel. Clip your snap weight to 3-way ring or use a another snap-lock to attach. If your worried about weight hanging in rocks and losing whole set-up, use a short piece of mono line that will break before braid. Run a 3-4' leader other side for your lure of choice. Snap weight should be easy to unhook or just leave on while you bring in laker. I'm sure a little experimentation will give prove what works best. Trying to unloop braid 50' up the line from lure/fish would be a hassle. I'm not sure I'm following you here, ST.  I would typically set up a 3-way swivel by tying one end off to my mainline, tie a snap weight off on a 3 foot leader and attach to the other end (in a vertical line with my mainline) and finally tie my lure off to a 3 foot leader and run that off the horizontal end of the 3-way.  I'm not sure if you are suggesting something different.  Are you?

I found that when I tried using a 3-way rig ( paddling solo) was that unless your moving forward the set-up you described would tangle on the descent faster than I could get enough forward momentum to deploy it properly.
9 out of 10 times when I reeled it in the weighted dropper line was tangled in the main/leader line.
I decided to eliminate the dropper line and attach weight directly to 3-way.
Next trip I decided to just take some keel weighted trolling sinkers.
My jury rigged 3-way was just a keel sinker anyway.