Vibrax spinners, marketing hype, are pretty darn good spinners. A vibrax hoochie spinner is still my go-to salmon spinner after having used quite a few different designs, many in side-by-side comparisons. Number two would probably be the Mepps Aglia. I think vibrax work very well for salmon for a number of reasons that I won't elaborate on, but in a nutshell, they fish well in the type of water that salmon tend to like.

As for the pixee's, a more worthless "spoon" has never been invented. I have a hard time even calling them a spoon. Sure they catch fish, but really only in conditions where literally anything shiny would work just as well. They are quite popular up here for a couple of reasons, but mainly because they are highly effective tools for snagging. They are also fairly cheap, which helps as well.

Most folks fishing the pixee aren't fishing it as one would a real spoon, but rather doing the old sink and yank and/or dredging the bottom.

One of the less reputable guide services in my neighborhood actually took to tying a 3-4 foot leader onto the bottom end of a pixee to which they attach a bare hook or small piece of dark yarn. AKA, the ultimate flossing rig. From there they give their guests careful instructions about how to cast straight across or slightly upstream and keep tension on the line as the spoon drags across the bottom. Make sure to give it a good yank at the end of the "swing." Pretty funny really. I am usually too busy netting silvers that like to eat eggs to get too mad at them as they unhook belly snagged chum after tailhooked humpy.

In the spring I walk lots of the creek mouths/combat zones fishing for early rainbows. While the water is still low, I find pixees by the dozens in the gravel. They go straight into the garbage can.