After fishing 4 yrs ago with bare hooks (yes they do work) I decided this year to reserach what krill are....and what I found was: http://www.ios.bc.ca/ios/plankton/~romaine/krillinf.htm

krill are 5/8" long and look like lil' shrimp. So I have taken my red gammies and tied some sparse krill imitations using pink krystal flash. They also remind me of the small (1") pink tube squids I used in the Alberni inlet for sockeye.

see ya on the lake, I'll be in my drift boat with a 10 hp merc pushing it (if I'm not trolling with the oars)..

I think it should work. I know the key to the sockeye is sloooooooooooooow troll.every one seems to go too fast( not every one just some).good luck on your krill.

We almost never trolled. Wind drift usually was enough speed.

I experimented in '96 with krill-type immitations made similar to the one described. They caught fish at about the same rate as the bare hook. There is, however, one lure that I discovered that outfishes the living daylights out of the bare hook and it can be trolled faster due to use of a longer leader. Hint, hint, it may have been described already in an earlier post. One other piece of advice, slow trolling is only necessary when you run "short" leaders. I limited every single day by 8:00am w/o using those 10-12" "I need to drag a bucket behinf the boat" leaders. A leader of 24-30" will catch plenty o' fish and allows for a faster troll. Did anybody see the sockeye news clip with footage from last season on Kiro channel 7? The boat with the two cute blondes in bikini tops was my boat(my girlfriend is the one holding fish). I was smart enough to get it on video tape this time(all three seconds of it) when it aired a couple days ago. 15 hours to go...good luck and easy limits!

JR