My brother in-law Kelley and myself fished just upstream from the mouth of the Willamette Sunday. We crept through about 5 miles of fog to get there, we made it to the area in front of the port cranes at 9:30.

What I witnessed by 2 boats in the hogline was surreal. These 2 boats had a fish on every 5 minutes all morning. I'm talking non-stop action by 3 people on one boat and 2 on the other. As fast as they could rig 'em and get 'em back out. The boats to the left and right of these 2 had results similar to ours, spotty to none. I saw a couple of guide boats get a few too. The huge majority were small ones and released. I only saw 1 kept in the 25 or so boats I could see.

I managed to hook up a barlely sub-legal at 12:30. We had moved to deeper water, 75' for that one. That was fun, it was just big enough to pull some line out. Took a couple of minutes to reel in. He jetted when we released him, that was cool.