New Member - Going light, what essentials would you reccomend

Hi All,

New member here hailing from Seattle. I grew up doing a lot of sea kayaking up in BC, but now that I am older and have a kid I've kinda switched over to sea going canoes (Sea Clippers). (Hopefully I don't get banned from the board!). Anyway, I am heading up to the Braughton group (near Port Hardy/Black fish sound/Johnstone Straight) on a 7 day paddle and I wanted to pick your brains on gear. I think we'd be mainly targeting bottom fish (Rockfish, lingcod, maybe small halibut) and Coho. I was also thinking of bringing a lighter rod and try for searuns/salmon from the beach.

So first question is for my main trolling/bottom fishing rods what's a good length and what weight should they handle. I was kinda guessing something like a 6' 2 piece handling 1 - 4oz? Does that seem reasonable? I was going to rig them all with 20# mono. I have two different reels, a penn 209 level winding reel and a shakespeare spincasting reel (pretty large), if it makes any difference.

If you are trolling for Coho, if you could only bring one or two setups what would they be? (No bait since I'm on a long trip). I was thinking of a small flasher (or something like the KoneZone), a range of weights 2 - 4 oz, and some squid. I also happen to have a few apex lures and some buzzbombs  ( jigging and casting ). What would you take?

My third question is what kind of lures would you take for bottom fishing. I was thinking of Buzzboms and a few softail jigs.

For beach fishing on my light rod, I was thinking of taking a few really small buzz bombs and some large spinners like blue fox. Any other recommendations here?

Any other gear you might bring? I was thinking a small spool of leader material, around 20#, extra snap swivels, bead swivels, sliding clips (for weights), pliers, clippers, filet knife, weights ....

Sorry for the huge amount of questions!

Mark