The bad: Where are the kings?
The good: Where did the silvers come from?

This report is actually for a few different outings:
Here's the fishing that we did:

Thursday PM 8pm to 10pm: 1 king, just over 7 lbs. Hatchery, real fat guy...Kept it. Around 10pm I said lets try something different and I went in and as I was getting into shallower water, I hit that king at 60 feet, about 40 feet of cable out...Green/glow coho killer behind a hotspot flasher.

Friday PM 7pm to 9pm: 1 silver, around 5 lbs. Kept. Coho killer setup again.

Saturday AM: 5am to 8am: Was our real good outing. We worked deeper water from 5am to 6:30. Nothing. Went back in shallower, trolled on a line in about 40-60 feet of water when the other boats and where we usually fish (80-120ft) were still not producing any fish and we were slamming the silvers. Every pass on this small little shelf where it got to be about 35-40 feet right in front of our friends house yielded a silver or a hit. They were biting pretty light, LOTS of hits, pulling the line outta the clip but nothing on it. We landed about 6 though from 6:30am to 8am, kept the 2 biggest (5-6lbers) Also released two Blackmouth, not big at all, one was about 20", the other at about 22". The cohokiller setup or a green/glow 3.5in Coyote behind an 11 inch red hotspot were both catching fish.

Saturday midday: 3pm to 4pm: Went out by myself, figured I'd switch it up and brought out my 9' ML spinning rod. Stuck a 5 inch Silver Horde plug and fished it with no flasher, hoping I could fish it deep and avoid the flounder/shakers...Got a nice 6-7lb native silver in about 2 minutes out there, lots of fun on 8lb test and a pretty light action rod and no flasher. Had one other hit, and again, I was working that shallow line.

Saturday PM 7pm to 9pm: One decent silver at 5lbs, kept. Lots of bait, lots of active shakers like all the other times we went out, but could only scrap one. Coho killer again.

Lots of active silvers/shakers jumping around on the surface. Way more then I've ever seen, lots of baitfish out there too. A bunch of the fish we caught had mouths full of sandlance or candlefish....

Lets hope the kings show up soon....

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