I went down to Long Beach to join my father in-law for some buoy 10 action. He had been there with a group from Sunday the 3rd, the initial reports were not good, they got skunked Sun-Mon. They could not get across the bar (too rough/foggy for a 21" jet boat) and they could not get a bite in the river.
Things picked up for them on Wednesday when they could get across the bar for what they thought was quick limits (1 king and 5 coho for 3 guys), but they decided to donate of two coho (with extra fins) and $150 to WDFW after they got to the dock. Even experienced fishermen can get too excited after three days of skunking and forget to check the fin count!
I joined them Thursday with one other guy so we had 5 people fishing out of the boat, a little crowded, but it made for good adventures with fish on. We headed across the bar at the beginning of the flood tide and headed north off Long Beach. We were out in about 35-45' of water fishing about 20-25' down.
I had the hot rod for the day, a green flasher with herring in the little green hood and a 3' leader. I ended up going 4/8 losing the first three, releasing two wild coho. I caught my first king salmon only about 6.5 lbs. after cleaning. We ended the day (had to get across the bar before ebb tide) with three nice coho and the king, all were about the same size.

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