Big baits=big fish?

I'm curious what others think about this subject in regards to salmon fishing.

Are you a big baits=big fish type?

Are you a small bait=all fish type?

I've used different sizes of bait for salmon and it really seems like it all boils down to chance. If anything, I think that a bigger bait increases your odds at getting a take down VS a smaller bait, because the fish will get more bang for its buck with the bigger bait. That makes the most sense to me. 

What do you think?

I've tried bigger herring and spoons off and on the last 3-4 years, but have the best all around results with green label. Plus there's more hook to bait ratio with green label upping the chance of that take down sticking.  I do believe in big baits for big fish on LMB and most pelagic offshore fish back in the southeast. Up here all my big LMB have come on small stuff. I think the cooler over all water temps make it more difficult to digest large meals so they eat small and often.

Could be random. I had a chance to make some observations lately when we went on a guided family fishing trip to Buoy 10. It was the third time with this guide and he usually runs two herring and two spinners. For whatever reason , this year, his one spinner looked pretty dinky like something maybe for river steelhead fishing and I did not have much confidence in it. However, all the presentations did catch fish during the day. The biggest fish of the day though, probably 30# and unfortunately lost at the net, was on the dinky spinner. It was probably a #4 blade compared to the other one which was a huge Mulkey spinner.

I think part of the popularity of the green label herring and why they seem to work the best for salmon is bait quality.   Green labels are the most popular bait and as such they probably haven't been in the bait freezer long before you get a chance to buy them.  The less popular sizes (red, blue, purple) might sit for months in the freezer without being purchased and can suffer because of it.

I think stinky bait = big fish. But more importantly, a bait visible to a hungry fish is going to get a fish.

For everything but salmon I subscribe to big bait = big fish. But it could be the main feed here are sandlances which are much smaller than even the anchovies.

I had a guy from Japan throwing what had to be 12 to 14 inch top water baits for pike.  I was impressed with the results. Big fish for sure but what more surprising was he caught a lot of fish that were smaller.

Big is also relative. I think if I pulled a spoon the size and width of green label herring, most folks would think "wow, that's a big spoon!"