Just for my own knowedge and interest, your says you run the reef, followed by a 40 leader ( assuming floor or mono), 5 colors ( am I correct that 1 color is about 10 yards or 30ft....so about 150 ft ) then you pale out another 50 of mono backer to get to 50ft.

Maybe it's me thinking but that's almost 200 ft out and a couple joiner knots, seems like a good chance for things to go wrong or get tangled.

I would think if if you ran a 3 oz snap weight 20ft in front of your runner, then another 100 ft out@ 1.5 I bet you would be real close to 50 down