I was up at Midchannel Friday and Saturday. My buddy calls up Thursday night saying, "Man, you are gonna have a good day on Friday because we limited 3 people by 10:00. And, the kings are big this year... blah, blah, blah" Fish checker at noon had checked better than 3 kings per boat!

So, I'm all excited heading up early on Friday.

I get there and 500 people must have called their buddies and said "get up here today". It looked like the City of Olympia had moved out onto Midchannel Bank.

Start fishing. Nothing... Fishing longer... nothing. Shaker.. nothing. Not seeing much. Fish here, fish there. Now, I'm thinking, "shoulda been here yesterday?" Toward the end of the day, I finally hook into a nice one. Not hooked well, though. Saw it was a hatchery fish ... getting closer. Now it's spent, ready to drag into the net. Then one last turn the fish toward the boat, and pop! out comes the coho killer out of the corner of its mouth. Geez! What a way to end the day. Easy 20 lb+ fish lost at the very, very last minute.

Long story short. In two days fishing, had two hookups for my boat. One lost next to the boat, the other a native 15-18 lb. Should been there on the opening.