I was crossing the Hood Canal Bridge yesterday at high tide and there were Chum jumping all over on the north side of the bridge. The public fishing access is closed due to construction work on the bridge and I didn't see any fish working close to the shoreline, but there were lots of fish off the mid-bridge area.

$80 worth of ferry cost to round trip my skiff across the Sound to try these fish has me hesitating. Otherwise I'd put in at at the county park, which has had the dock removed for the season and try small herring on a long flat line through the schools of fish fish about 200 yards north of the bridge.

I don't know if there are any security restrictions about fishing near the bridge, there was one boat trolling there yesterday.

And there is the possibility that all those fish might be gone down the Canal on the next tide.