What are your thoughts on depth control?

[SkunkedAgain]

I was curious of your thoughts on the different ways to control what depth you fish at?  My summer keeps me too busy farming to have gotten very good at my trolling routine.  So I've used lead core lines and this works good for me as long as I'm not going deeper than maybe 30'.  I also have used downriggers, that I guess I assumed was the best way to go deeper, but I've been hearing a lot of talk about dipsy divers.  I've never used them, so I don't know much about them.  What are your thoughts about different methods and what are draw backs and strengths?  I'd say for lead core it puts the lure where it needs to go for early koke trips and trout after the water temps start to climb on the surface.  Drawbacks are the heavy weight really takes a lot of the fight out of the fish and it feels like cranking a winch to pull in payload rather than enjoying the fight of the fish...  So I use it and it's worked well for me at times, but it's not the most enjoyable fishing...  For the down rigger, it's great for being able to land right on the depth you want to, and catches fish as they go deeper.. But for drawbacks, I hate being clipped in and missing the big strike hit feeling and for small fish it seems like you really have to watch and make sure your hardware is set up right so you don't pop out too soon, but you're not too stiff for small fish to pop the clip...  I like that you can be on light tackle and have a fun fight after you get out of the clip, but I still miss the fun of a big hit on a regular trolled light line.  Anyway I've heard a lot of folks that have told me that dipsy divers are a good  solution for helping me get more of what I like from trolling, what do you think?  Thanks all...  Jeff

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PS..... This is definitely not limited to these three methods, I know some like clip weights and other things so I'm open to what you're thoughts are for different situations... Thanks J