Don't rule out big and flashy. I just spent a week with the good EYE doctor on the Kenai and cought one on a big wad of eggs with a spinnenglow and the largest size twinfin in front of that. Yea probably a fluke but the fish hit it three times with everyone watching while I was backbouncing it about 9 miles up from the mouth. The hook was about 2" behind the eggs and the fish was hooked in the tip of the lower jaw. Before the red hook and flasher days in lake WA they used good sized flat fish behind flashers and lots of people thought they were chasing the flasher as though they were other sockeye and snaging themselves on the double treble flat fish. Just a thought. You may look like an idiot casting a double 00 flasher and drifting it down the river but somebody had to cast the first PINK worm. Maybe try it when no one else is watching...Art