Tube and Worm for Stripers on the west coast?

I was looking for some striper tips and kept coming across the T&W or Tube and Worm that seems to be all the rage for East Coast striper fishing. Slow trolled and undulating, it looks like a gian sandworm or an eel I guess. Perfect for trolling structure out of a kayak.

I'm just wondering if anyone has given it a go here?

http://www.ctfisherman.com/tubeworm.html

excerpt:

A Great Way To Fish - Tube & Worm Fishing For Striped Bass
One fisherman's discoveries and successes trolling Long Island Sound for striped bass
By Patrick J. Renna, a.k.a."Tackleman"

Quite frankly, as an angler's fishing career gets “seasoned” with many years of trial and error using different methods, techniques, lures and baits, it’s not very often that he can say something has made a dramatic difference in his overall style of fishing or success rate.

However, discovering the tube & worm trolling technique has had that exact type of profound, positive effect on my ability to catch striped bass in great numbers -- and in a style which I find relaxing and affordable.

I believe that's often referred to as a "sluggo" back east. It is supposed to look like a sand eel. We don't have those out here (I think) so I'm not sure how a bass would respond to it. It probably would work in a hot bite, and I bet those sluggos would kill the rockfish and lings.

to be honest, i've never thought of stripers as picky eaters.  put something interesting in front of them and they will eat.

Sluggos pretty much look like a bait fish so I'm sure the west coast stripers would eat them.  I've always wanted to try a senko in the salt. 

I bought several of those T&W's on one of my trips to NY.  I tried it out here in SB bay trolling for Stripers but no lucks so far.  But I'm sure a hungry Striper will eat it if it's "swimming" in front of its nose 

I used to troll sluggos back in Long Island Sound from my kayak for striped bass and bluefish.  We had a lot of sand lance in Long Island Sound in the summer and these fish were keying in on them.  The brown and gray sluggos I used to run behind my kayak rigged weedless with a large worm hook and no weight were deadly.

We do get different species of pipefish in the bay.  I've cleaned a bunch of stripers before that have had these critters.  Maybe something brownish colored would work, but there are other reliable lures.

berkeley has a rigged eel powerbait. I wonder if that would work

I guess it really depends on what the basis of the success is: Does it mimic a food source, or does the nature of the lure lend itself to particularly effective presentation when being fished from a kayak (trolling at paddle speeds). Or maybe something else entirely.

I was just surprised by the amount of google hits on this lure, and how passionate many were in insisting it was a game changer for them. Of course, that tends to happen in fishing with every new lure or method that comes along... 

Hogy's are really popular! I know that, they got some sweet lures.