downriggin,
Do you think that chinook are noctornal feeders?

I ask this from experiances fishing the saltchuck around here in dyes inlet and the washington narrows..Years ago I learned that if I caught the tide just just switching and going out at day break,I could catch 10-12lb blackmouth.I catch these fish during the winter,from the rocks underneath the waren avenue bridge in bremerton.The water is not 25 feet deep!

My method is to cast cutplug herring,like I was spoon fishing a river.Basicly a quarter cast.I Just let the current spin the bait and swing it untill it was in to close.

Being as I have never had down riggers,I have always mootched for the jarstad kings.After I learned about this pocket blackmouth fishery,I started leaving for the fall kings a couple of hours before daylight from evergreen in b-town.I would quietly motor out around mannete and I would prowl the shore line from the gazebo to Illahee.I would use my fish finder to find bait.

Most of the time I would not need my sonar as You could here the kings feeding on bait balls they had shoved up into ten feet of water!Iused to,once again cast cut plug herring,maybe a half once of weight,and slay fish.Some mornings I coulld have seven-ten fish on in the first hour before-during daybreak.

Within the first hour of daylight everything would go quiet and I would have to prowl the depths looking for fish.

Just food for thought.