Trolling set up's

[chumbucket]

The TLD's are a good buy for the $$ I have a TLD for my Cod jigging rod.
For trolling, I'm using a couple setups with the old trusty Penn Senator 4/0 113H's mounted on Penn Senator 6'6" rods 30-50 lb. Mine have roller strippers and roller tip tops, but you really only need them if you're going to be running wire setups. My reels are loaded with 50lb leadcore. I'm mostly trolling tube and worm or some deep divers.

[Destroyer]

Like everyone else I have my favorite setups. I have Penns that are nice, but I have several Diawa 50H reels that I love. I run downriggers (Invader brand) and these reels just keep working. They are just over 30 years old and look pretty much like new. (Maintenance is a wonderful thing). You can still see/buy them on eBay.
I use different rods depending on how I'm going to be trolling. If I'm using umbrella rigs I go for the heavier 6' rods because of the extra drag of the rig. If I'm using worms, j-plugs, any kind of single lure then I use 8' downrigger rods.
I usually use 25lb mono but I'm liking SpiderWire braid more and more.. Tried Monel and SS and leadcore.. it just doesn't do it for me.. that's why I went downriggers. I cast my own fish shaped 10 lb weights, and I can control the depth easily. It's cool that along with the counters on my downriggers I can also see my weights on my FF so if I mark fish at a particular depth I can precisely put my lures at that depth.