Been doing a little research and found this on the bcadventure website. Parker, any of your ideas similar to these techs?

...Behaviourally, sockeye share characteristics with coho and pink. During summer months, schools of all three species intermingle on the migration route from the open Pacific to inland waters prior to dispersal to streams of origin. These schools travel 15 to 20 miles per day, swimming in the top 50 feet of the water column 1 to 3 miles offshore. On occasion sockeye will be taken as deep as 125 feet, but this is not common. Look for sockeye to be bunched in tidelines.

In the past, sockeye were not caught by sports fishers. Fortunately for anglers, 15 years ago sockeye behaviour altered and they began hitting red Krippled Ks trolled dead slow behind a small Gibbs flasher. In the intervening years, they have begun to take other lures: pink or orange hootchies, squirts and plankton squirts on 24 - 34 inch leaders behind a flasher. Occasionally, they will take bait in a red teaser head, and green or black apex lures. I anticipate many lures will develop over the years. Simply a piece of pink surgical tubing on a hook, the relatively new Happy Hooker is one example. Some days this very simple lure outfishes anything else in the tackle box.The sockeye bite dramatically improves when other species are present.

The sockeye angler now has some specific techniques at his or her disposal. Consider any red lure, even a hook painted red or a red bead on a hook. With sockeye, less is definitely more; rip out at least every second frond of a hootchie. True herbivores, sockeye target plankton and krill (euphasiid shrimp) and this probably accounts for the preference for pink and for small lures. For some reason, sockeye are far more stimulated by flashing light than other salmon. Consequently, the rule with sockeye is: get as many flashers in the water as possible. Tie 10 feet of leader to a flasher and attach it to the downrigger ball and then your fishing line 10 feet higher. Alternatively, stack more than one fishing line per downrigger. Just get those flashers in the water! As for electrical potential, sockeye prefer the highest voltage of any salmonid - .75 volts.

Sockeye are great followers, passively floating along behind lures for great distances without biting. Along with their herbivorous nature, this may help to explain why virtually all sockeye are caught on trolled lures. This behaviour can be used to catch them. Trigger strikes by changing lure action: crank tight turns every few hundred yards; take the boat out of gear every now and then; and, when fishing with slip weights, pull 2 feet of line, hold it for a second and let it go. When the rod tip dips, sometimes a sockeye will strike. Some days it is truly amazing how many fish this simple technique will take.