This is your early morning report for the Elliott Bay opener. I got to the ramp a little before 4:00 and only had to wait for 4 other boats to launch. It went fast as anyone launching in the wee hours of the morning usually knows what they are doing. If I had to guess, I'd say there were 75 to 100 boats with the majority trolling. During the three hours I was out I saw 2 fish landed and 1 lost. I talked to one of the boats who caught a fish and they were trolling near bottom (110 feet down in 120/130 feet of water on the West side of the West channel. I passed them again awhile later and they reported losing another fish. There was a whole other group of boats trolling around the Duwamish Head area, but I didn't get any info on how they were doing. Most people were still on the water when I left, but the fish checkers said they had only heard of a few fish caught.
JMS