TnS:

I had the same logic in my head last year and tried "heading them off at the pass", well in this case the boundary between West Pt. and Meadow Pt. Fished it a couple of times with no takers. Tried the bare hook, but they seemed uninterested.

If your going to try it the best tip I can give you is that many years ago back in the early 90's I worked as a DFW observer on the commercial sockeye boats up in the San Juans. Many of a time I inspected Sockeye on the deck that had a small pink hootchie stuck in thier jaw that broke of from some poor angler. One fish even came in the net once that had a red hot spot flasher and the pink hootchie dangling from his gullet. I would also recommend fishing in the top 25' of water, sockeye are typically caught in the top layer of the gillnet 85% of the time in the salt.

Good Luck!

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