I've been fishing the Fraser hard for about four years now. The first couple of years I used more Yankee technics than I do now. The first year I couldn't figure out why they used such long leaders and I ended up using five inch leaders with bright red corkies in slower currents on the edge of deeper faster moving water. Guess what, it worked. One day me and a buddy hooked fish after fish and I swear these fish were biting the hook. That same spot gets so much presure any more that I have given it up and now fish much faster and heavier water. So consequently I've adopted the Canadian method of 11.5 foot rod with ten foot leaders. This year I've hooked hundred of Sockeye's and five or six Springs using the long line method. I actually have to say I don't think one of the Sockeye's I've gotten has actually bite the hook. I think if you work the slower waters you can probably get these guys to bite but if you fish all the faster water which the Fraser has a lot of your going to floss the fish. It's pretty obvious that when you toss it out into mid current and all the sudden feel something rubbery on your rod you've just flossed a fish.