Waterboy, I have used a standard salmon fly a couple of time with deadly effect when nothing else was working and the fish were jumping everywhere (even splashing the boat). Most other times I put a GSB fly on my son's rod and he will always get some action. This is all in Hales Pass when the fish are there. I have to admit, the last couple of seasons it's been really hit and miss to find them in Hale's Pass. I have a friend that lives right on the beach a couple hundred yards north of the fuel dock in Hales Pass (Goosberry Pt). I get up to the date reports of netting, visuals on fish and seeing people fishing for them. So far, nothing of importance to report.

I have fished Sandy Pt a few times. It's shallow and I always see bankies fishing from shore. The Slug-O's are a soft plastic worm type bait (bass product).

The gill netters hit the Whatcom Creek fishery so hard that I never try to fish it once the bay opens. During the week they will be staggered back and forth from in front of the waterway all the way up the shoreline (during the week, evenings). It's difficult to navigate your way back to the harbor through the zig zagging nets. More than once I have had a netter come racing at me telling me to stay away from his net. This is while I am standing up scanning the area in front of me going 15 mph trying to figure out which bow picker goes to which net. So, I just don't fish it during the week and there's nothing left on the weekends. I am not a real expert on trying to catch them as its too much trouble (whatcom creek kings).

I have heard of coho being caught along Marine Park (Post Pt). There have been guys on this board who have said they would fish there while away from class at WWU. This is another reason I want to focus more of my time in the southern part of the Bay. I have spent allot of time learning to fish in the Islands but feel I have been missing out on fish just south of me. Oh, and I have fished the Samish river many times and understand the fishery fairly well. It's time I hit the salt and learn to catch them as well.