May/June, I fish the Fox Island side only on the flood tide. This is usually blackmouth haven. Bait schools up like crazy behind the spit. Look for them shallow in the morning (60'-100'). By mid morning, move out to 100'-130'. If the bait isn't there, move directly across the main stem of the current and fish north in the large pocket (eddy). There is another spit directly across from the FI sand spit and harbors a beached (in ruins) barge. Water in here if fairly shallow. Follow the 75'-95'. If you don't hook up in these to spots, troll with the tide between the barge and the daymarker on the pt. I like the 105'-110 curve here. An interesting note for you, summer kings heading to Minter will follow the north side of Hale's Passage up until Cutt's Island (roughly) before shooting across.

As far as fishing there for summer kings... If I fish by myself, I start in the top 50' of water until sunrise. After that, I am hugging the bottom. If there are two of us, one of us stays between 40'-80' and the other hugs the bottom. Blackmouth... 1 hugs the bottom, the other within 10'-15' of the bottom.

Three criteria for salmon. Hearing, sight and smell. I like the double glow Silver Horde spoons because they meet these three things. (1) The Sonic Edge has a lot of noise making qualities plus an Colorado blade attached to the ring above the hook which produces a slight clicking noise. (2) it glows for deep fishing, (3) Smelly Jelly (herring flavor).

I simple like spoons because of the above. Additionally, I don't like to use bait because, (1) I don't have to keep checking the bait wasting fishing time (2) I don't catch as many bottom fish.

I do have a secret that I add to the spoon, but we are going to have to go fishing to learn this trick from me.

Hope this helps!
Downriggin'