Spent 3 days at Neah bay, and it was definitely the good old days revisited! Like General Zog said, LOTS of early silvers. The first evening we went to the rips just outside Waddah island. As soon as our herring was out, it was fish on! After chewing through 2 dozen in about an hour, we switched to surface skipping flies. This has to be my favorite salt-water technique. Watching silvers slam the fly on the surface,
trolling at 5-6 mph is something else! Next morning we went outside and fished the rips NW of Duncan rock, and found a few kings mixed in with the bigger silvers that were out here. Biggest king went about 27#. The silvers outside averaged about 8#, with a few in the low teens. The only problem (if you want to call it a problem) was all of the pinks, inside and outside. It's amazing how well plankton feeders take a cut-plug or Coyote spoon, while puking up wads of small shrimp. The clipped to unclipped ratio was about 1-5 for us. Hopefully this is a good sign for wild silvers, and not just a lot of missed clips in the hatcheries. I don't think fishing herring was really necessary, the silvers, pinks, and even some kings were taking the Coyote spoons just as well. 3oz. mooching sinker, and a spoon or cut-plug, that was all it took. Didn't even need the downriggers, You just gotta love it!