We know that sockeye bite real well when they are in the lake. They also bite in the salt - I've caught them before trolling real slow using a flasher and a tiny pink squid with a lot of extra dummy flashers to attract and hold the schools. But they don't seem to bite while in the river, or if they do it's in slack water or if you present your bait real slow, like in a lake. Got a theory for that. Sockeye rear and feed in lakes and in the saltchuck, not in rivers. All they do in rivers is migrate. So perhaps their feeding reflex is not triggered in rivers in fast water traveling areas using conventional drift fishing techniques, and is only triggered in slack water feeding situations, which would explain the hits on real slow or stationary baits. You have to troll real slow to catch them in a lake or in the salt, so why not drift real slow when in the river? Make it look/act like something they feed on in a lake and perhaps these Fraser sockeye will bite it. Just my .0128 cents (.02 Canadian)