How do you boondog spinners and what setups seem to work well. I've never seen anyone do this, (or at least not heard them call it boondoggin) and would like to try it. I can always use another tatic, thanks for the help.

Shep, Like I mentioned in the other thread, have boondoggled spinners effectively for fall kings. A #5 spinner w/ french blade works under most conditions. The technique is executed exactly as it sounds. Cast the spinner at a 45-degree angle behind the boat and use the downstream motion of the boat to tow the spinner through the holding water.
As with most oddball techniques, spinnerdoggin' is only effective in the right water. This water is the deep, slow stuff commonly found next to clay banks, riprap and revetted banks. Use lighter spinners in the slowest water and weighted ones in heavier flows. After casting out, free-spool spinner to desired depth and engage reel (Note: spinner need not be on bottom). Give the spinner a pop to engage the blade and hang on. Pay attention to the thumping of the blade; if it stops, set the hook. The spinner will slowly glide through the kill zone and upwards. Watch the angle of your line. When it shallows out, begin a slow retrieve back to your rod tip. Have scored many times on the retrieve, especially with silvers. Recast and repeat the process. After pounding the hole with kwickies and bouncing bait through, try spinnerdoggin' on your way out. You might get lucky and elicit a strike.

This is a technique used on the Columbia in the Hanford Reach area for upriver bright chinook... it works quite well, but the guys there do things a bit differently. They use Vibrax spinners by Blue Fox as these have a rattle in the body. Then they wad a huge cluster of eggs on the hook and wrap it with a lot of thread. Next step is to pinch a few extra split shot on the line ahead of the spinner.
The idea is to keep the spinner ticking along the bottom every so often. As long as the spinner is close to the bottom, you catch fish. The drift then is the same as Flatfish/Kwikfish.
Steelhead take the spinner as well.

I think I have one of the very best ways to boondog for steelhead and salmon with spinning rigs. We really put it to the test this fall on the Harrison river in BC. We make Colorado spinners out of one split ring and 2 barrel swivels. Put a #4 hammered colorado blade on a split ring and then add 2 swivels. Put a #1 siwash hook on the down stream swivel, you've got the spinner (40 cents). Put the spinner on a 6-8' long leader out of 12# to 15# test. For weight use a sliding dropper (6"-10" dropper with a tear drop sinker) above a barrel swiveel on your mainline like you would use for back bouncing for springers. Always put a bead between your dropper swivel which will be sliding up and down your mainline and the barrel swivel attching your leader. It prevents line twist. We generally used 3/4 to 1 oz weights, casted the straight out and then drug them at no more than 45 degrees and then did the slow reteive as needed to stay out maintain a good drift and a slow blade spin. This dropper method keeps them on the bottom allows you to have a slower blade spin and with the homemade colordo spinners you don't mind if you lose a few a day. We use the same spinners under dink floats for steelhead and have very good success. We caught and landed all 5 species of salmon on the Harrison river one October day last fall with the same lure type.