I got in on the Pillar bite at 0 dark 30 on Monday- was about as hot as I've seen, wound up hooking 3 kings in a total of 1 1/2 minutes of actual fishing time, all were hatchery fish, kept a 10 and an 8. The bite fell way off when the sun came up, had to go to PA for a meeting anyway so that was fine with me - save some quota I used the downrigger with a hotspot and coyote instead of mooching as I usually do when I fish Pillar Point, as I didn't want to have a bunch of fish I was figuring on having to release swallowing bait, and the doggies were bad, even got one on the spoon The local moochers sure gave me sour looks :p