Hook sizes for drift fishing salmon?

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Far more steelhead are caught using a four hook which is universally used by all the clearwater guides I know most of which are using roe with a stinger egg-looped. For the very aggresive steelhead at the confluence who are voracious eaters they use a 2 with and egg-looped 4 stinger using the coon-shrimp. A !.0 for me drift fishing for salmon produces about twice as many lost fish. The best hook for landing salmon is the Brad's which is about a third as expensive as the Owner or Gamagatsu. A friend at Clear Creek is 30-30 without a missed hookup on the Brads 3.0. The reason it is so effective is becouse with a good hookset it is impossible to eliminate the nubbing on these hooks. You cannot effectively eliminate the barb totally without a grinder. The best plunkers use a 3.0 with an egg-looped 2.0 stinger mostly using shrimp with garlic. The flossers at the mill-hole who are the best salmon catchers are using 2.0 with egg-looped yarn and adjusting colors with the sunlight like we do for steelhead and trout. Longer leaders and end of line egg-loops or a standerd steelhead rigging. The handffull of drifters out of the boat who catch triple the fish of anyone else use a drop setup of a three way without any corkie fish it vertically upriver from the boat with the hook six inches above the lead at about 24--18. We fish straight down the current line and slow the drift with a lot of weight and recast when line gets below the boat. The more expensive and bigger the boat the less fish they catch. Best handled with a tiller. The vertical drift produces twice the fish and is why the bank fisherman cannot duplicate this method.
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