they work good but not as well, the reason that the eggs are so small is because those fish still have a bit of traveling to do, we caught some out of the columbia b4 it closed and they were really small, but those fish were heading for idaho, i think the smaller eggswill work but they will catch more trout and steel then salmon, but ive heard that a reason salmon will hit eggs as nit for food, but tey think that it is there duty to return the eggs back up river where hey think they came from, so they may hit them as well...good luck and tight lines