Well, let me tell you, I am overly convinced now! Went fishing today on a semi-zipperlip river with my dad. Between the two of us, we hooked four chrome winter steelies with sea lice between 6 and 10 pounds using rubber worms! I lost one of them, but I got two and my dad got one. My dad also got another fish plunking a spin'n'glow with scent. We both ended up limiting out on steelies-all in all, going 4 for 5! Two hens and two bucks. Two of the fish were hooked on pink power worms. And two were hooked on the salted red/orange seducer worms. And then the one my dad got plunking was on a rainbow 'cheater-glo' is what I actually like to call it. Don't know if such a thing really exists, but I created my own little invention. Took a spin'n'glow without any wings in it that I just found laying around and shoved/superglued in some perfect looking mylar cheater wings that I took from a severely damaged large cheater body. I put the wings in sideways. Dang, I wish I had a digital camara so I could post pics of this neat looking thing and also so I could post fish pics of the four we got. We're strictly bank fisherman and don't like to fish in crowded areas, so limits aren't very common among our types anymore. It's been a few years since my dad limited out on winter steelhead, and I can honestly say I've caught my fair share of steelhead, but have never never limited in one day of fishing. I want to take the time to personally thank all of you who have helped me and others to learn about this effective technique (you know who you are). Thank you all very very much. Today was Awesome!!! I hope to repeat it again soon. Not tomorrow though. Working around the house, smoking fish, etc... We fried some of that fish I caught the other day (on the worm) for breakfast and it was great! Going to do it again tomorrow. And the next day, too!

Jellyhead, thanks for the info. I tried the "suck test" on the seducers. Yep, definitely salt on the outside! I'll take your word for it that there isn't any inside these worms. Seems to me the fish we hooked on both the power worm and the seducer held it for a while cause we let them have it for a couple seconds before setting it to them. And they held it in the meantime! All fish were hooked in the lower jaw except one which was in the nose. Also, I've found that you better use light line in the clearer low water with these worms and the smallest lightest rod you can use. I'm no expert yet, but that's what I would recommend as that's how we hooked our fish. I tried drifting these worms with my 8'6" lamiglas 1000 northwest special and it was too big IMO, if that helps any. Me and my dad both used spinning reels, 8 pound mainline/and either 8 or 6 pound leader (light I know, but...it worked!). My dad's rod was 8' and mine was 7 1/2'. Both were heavy enough to fully be able to control average+ sized steelies, but sensitive enough to feel bottom and a subtle hit. Also, we used light lead like I remember somebody on here suggesting to do. We only tapped bottom about every two feet or so.

Steelheadaddict01, thanks for the site, I'm gonna check it out right now. One thing I wonder though-could it be that just the fish on this one river are crazycrazy about the worms and other river's fish don't get that crazy over them? Like I believe RT said, maybe hatchery workers wore pink rain clothes while feeding fish in the hatchery or there were automatic pink feeders in the concrete ponds? This maybe attracts them, since they remember getting food when they went towards the pink stuff. Who knows. I'm just happy we got fish! Maybe I can experiment in another few rivers soon.

ONTHESAUK, what/where is Holiday Market? I live down here in Battle Ground near Vancouver, WA. I don't think there are any of those near here-are there?

Thanks again from me and my dad, everybody!