After seeing BB member Jerry Garcia's beach caught coho pic in the 'Bright fish ...' thread I meant to ask, but forgot, about float fishing plugcut herring off Whidbey. I've heard about it before, but not the particulars. In fact, a member here did a post about it last year and I have a print-out of it but can't find it. It's something I've never done. A few people do chance the jetty's in places like Nehalem Bay down this way and do pretty well on silvers just floating them a few feet under a bobber and the chop puts enough mooching type action to get bites. Obviously there commonly is enough chop off Whidbey for this to work well. There is a particular popular Whid. Is. beach for this I heard about; can't remember the name or location of it. This summer with my family we crossed over Admiralty Straight from Port Townsend to the terminal on Whidbey (went to visit our friend Dan stationed at the Naval airbase there - there's a chance he might get the call to go help root out Osama and gang via continued air backup). I saw a few potential outcropped pieces of land or beach that could get you near the fish travel lanes; either side of that area. Still looked like a long casting deal. Someday I'd like to try that. Bobber down in the salt - cool. Any techs you or others can offer?

And I haven't yet tried this on fresh water salmon - how well does that work. I've backtrolled small herring behind my sled out in the current and done well with that up in the rivers, but the floatfishing thing sounds fun (maybe a little late for this season?). Thanks for any feedback.

RT