One day at Westport this summer I saw several purse seiners working and heard them talking on the radio..I did not realize at the time that they were seining sardines. Most of the fish we caught we feeding on sardines in the 10-14" size...the skin dissolves faster than herring so some people were talking of large herring but the feed was definitely sardines. Much higher protein to be had in sardines than herring so the salmon were fat and growing fast. I used a 6" nickle plated spoon with no flasher at all depths and participated in atleast one 100 fish days....yes 100 salmon for three fishermen caught and released before noon. I used the same spoon for weeks.....The spoon is not available locally and is normally used on the Great Lakes. The large Silver Horde spoons had the same high catch rate. My biggest King of the year was caught on a flasher and Yama****a squid behind a Hot Spot flasher at 130 feet down in 220 feet of water approx 15 miles offshore.