my partner is a loyal coho killer user, so she started with that until i convinced her to switch to the purple haze squid after the CK went dead for over an hour. she hooked up within 15 minutes of the change
as far as the brad's cut plug, we had good luck with that the other day dragging it 40' behind the boat as the third rod, so i was just experimenting. a dummy flasher is a flasher snapped directly to the DR ball, set maybe 5-10' back, then clip your line and whatever lure about 5' above it and about 5' behind it. the flasher is just there solely as an attractor. when they hit your lure, it's just you and your fish, no flasher. i usually use Qcove's anyway, but still there's some drag even with those. like i said, was just playing around.