OK, I guess you were looking for a little more feedback.
I have been fishing more with jigs and pink worms than any other thing the last couple years. Making up for lost time - and gathering all the knowledge I can. And a whole lot of experimenting with things most others haven't gotten into yet.
We all know steelies love the pink worm. So do silvers (coho salmon). I've caught many 'hos on the pink worm on both a float fished jighead and by drift fishing methods. Even out in the ocean, not just the rivers. Like steelhead, I found that adding various types of twitched or 'jigged' actions to the pink worm they are often more productive than just the free drifting with the 2 above methods of presentation (but not always - so try the straight drifting first). Putting just the right curve into the worm and doing a very slow retreive along with some twitching has hooked me up to steelhead and silvers when seemingly nothing else would work. Not good eggs, shrimp tail, the best of jigs, or even plugs. It's a whole new world out there for rubber. NOT just the pink worm either!
Chinooks will also take the pink worm, as well as take jigs. The slower straight drift method works better on the big 'nooks, rather than the action discoveries that have worked on the steelies and 'hos with various rubber presentations. Fly, FH5, and I were on the Humptulips this fall, fishing on a hord of silvers. They were taking everything. Didn't matter what. But on one of the deeper holes I deep drifted a pink worm on a jighead under a float. The float just sank under the surface (not a harder hit like steelhead usually do) and I set it on a strong mid-twenties chinook that I landed on 10 lb. line. Released that gray belly buck. Gotten some on Oregon rivers too that way too. I haven't tried them on springer 'nooks yet, but I'll bet my GL3 I will get one on a pink worm.
On another trip, out near bouy 10, Don Larson rigged up a long pink worm on herring trolling gear and started getting more hits than us guys with plugcut herring! That was for a short while on our last trip out there last fall, so we didn't get to try more of it. We definitely will next fall. So I think these pink worms, and many other rubber items, will work for any of the salmonid species in both the salt and especially in the rivers with the right presentations and scents. Shrimp oil with anise is good for steelies (and searuns cutts) and herring/squid/anise is good for the salmon. But most good scents will work on either species; as will unscented worms at times. Have fun.
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