Fished the St. Helens area hard for three days last weekend. Only saw a handful of fish caught each day out of the hundreds of bank and boat rods. Fortunately my buddy found one each day we were out two hatchery ( 6 and 22 pounds) and one wild (8-10 pounds, released) I never got a bite.

Saw lots of sea lions. One thing that helps to keep the sealions away is when you hook a fish try to become calm as possible and move about slowly on the boat, keep seated if possible, and for god sakes don't wave your net around keep it on the floor till the very last second! The sealions poke there heads up and constantly are looking for the Chinese fire drill and net waving parties that say come eat my fresh springer!

The twenty two pounder was as bright as foil, I'll try to figure out how to get the picture off my PC at home and post it. All fish were hooked on a K-14 kwikie.

Fresh springer on the grill tonight for dinnner!

BD