July 4th report--

Tons of very small silvers out in the shipping lanes. Everything we hooked was 1-3 pounds. The good thing was that we had to release very few native fish. We caught a couple of pinks , but we weren't targeting them so I don't know if we had fished differently, we wouldn't have caught more. For us, the bite died just before slack (~9:30 or so).

We moved in at that point and fished for chinook for about an hour around the mid-morning slack. Didn't seem like anything was going on. Then, just when we were about to quit around 11:00, BAM, we hooked a 15 pound hatchery king . Hooked him shallow--35' down with flasher and green-glow splatterback spoon.

The fish checker had only seen two kings at noon when we came in. Pretty darn slow.

Pressure was light. It was pretty rough the two previous days, according to those that I talked to... and slow fishing to boot. Most people headed home on Sunday, apparently. We practically had the place to ourselves... well, we shared the place with a couple hundred others, but it seemed pretty low key compared with other times we've been there in July.