Back in my meatlining teen years I fished from a 14' Kalamath. A not so known spot for Kings at the time was the sand spit on Fox Island. We would intercept the Minter Kings trolling back and forth from the spit to Green Pt. One day I was fishing the shelf right off the shipwreck there when the fish hit. She hit so hard that the boat shook hard and the bow shifted about 20 degrees to starboard... Scared the [Bleeeeep!] out of me! Then I realized... fish on! My biggest South Sound fish todate- 36#.

Another memorable hit was... There is a spot between two South Sound islands where a huge shoal pertrudes from the beach followed a severe drop off. Anyways, on a good ebb, there is a tremendous rip (about 4 to 6 knots of current) followed by a huge eddy. The way to fish this spot to shoot above the shoal, drift down and cast flies over the shoal into the rip. Long story short... casted a tube fly about 10 feet from the beach and a huge Silver smacked it, cleared the water, and beached herself all in one shot. Meantime, we're drifting down current quickly and I can't get the fish off the beach.
Eventually, she came off the beach...and fly.

Downriggin'