This was my first year doing the Lake Washington sockeye. My buddy and I launched my boat at coulon around 7:00pm on Friday, motered around a bit and anchored up at Seward Park to spend the night. Got out around 4:30 to start fishing. Wasn't having much luck early but people were catching fish. We just couldn't get a take down. Had only one takedown, a small one, but it got off right away. My buddy saw another friends boat and talked to him on the radio. He was catching fish so we asked him about his set up. He told us what he was using and everything we were using was the same except he was only using a 7-9 inch leader behind his dodger and a little glob of bright red power bait on the shank of the hook also 75-80 feet deep. We shortened our leaders and dropped down from 60 to 80 and we started getting takedowns. The first came on my buddies rod and after about 10 seconds into his fight BAM down goes my rod. Both fish landed. The next came about 20 minutes later and the last about about 30 minutes after that. Once we the set up down we limited in just a little over an hour. Lets do it again, sure hope they open it up for another day or so.