I’ve never fished the area you refer to, but jigging is my favorite way to catch salmon in the salt. No flashers, down riggers, boat navigating (trolling), weights, or leaders to tie and get tangled up. Just tie your jig to your line and your fishing. Jigs come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. There are herring, anchovy, and candle fish imitations, just to name a few. After much experimenting I’ve had most of my success with all white candle fish jigs (long and skinny) and green back, white belly herring shaped jigs. However, if you get into the salmon thick it doesn’t really matter what you use. I put a slight bend in them and keep them clean between uses with WD40. Here is what I do, first wile cruising around in the boat I look for signs of bait fish. Flocks of birds on the water, herring jumping out of the water, and bait balls on the depth finder are all dead give aways. Next I figure out what way the current is going, mostly through trial and err. I then go to the far side of the bait so the current will push me into and over the bait. The size of jig I use depends on the speed of the current, the faster the current the bigger the jig I use. Your jig should be heavy enough to get down to the bottom before the current has pushed you to far away from where your drop it. I like to cast my jig with the current so I eventually pass over it with my boat giving it a few jigs then letting out some line and repeating this until it reaches the bottom. I then repeat this process back to the surface. This way I fish all depths. I used to not always go all the way to the bottom every time when fishing for silvers, but realized if I do I catch more things like ling cod (yum), and big kings (fun). The only drawback to jigs is a high mortality rate, just something to consider if you can only keep marked fish or plan on releasing fish and want to feel good about your ethics. I once caught just the eyeball of a salmon on my jig (I guess he was really checking it out) and hooks in the tongue and gills are not uncommon. However, the way I see it the seals and sea lions are going to get there fill of salmon no matter what so I don’t really feel bad releasing a fatally wounded fish that is going to become seal food either way.