Salmo,

Glad to see your still around. The board misses your intellectual comments. My opinion is under certain situations, sockeye will take smaller and sparsely tied fly patterns that are well presented. I also believe once they become sexually mature, they will become more aggressive towards flies drifting through their redds. I believe sockeye are prone to display non biting/feeding situations, even more so than other salmonids. Like most situations, good fishers can and will get sockeye to take their offerings: whether it be a feeding response or out of irritation/aggression who knows. But this method does require more work and skill hence it commonly is not the preferred method.

DaveD