From what I saw they were catching fish going both ways on the river, with and agianst the current. As for depth, they seemed to let out about 50-60 feet of line or so, and a lot of the boats trolled pretty quickly. The river is pretty deep in most spots, but watch out at low slack tide as it gets kinda low. Baits, most of the boats weren't using baits, but if you want to I'd either plunk or use a float with some eggs. I saw one boat plunking hook into a nice king using eggs but they lost it. Umm, well hopefully Carl can respond to you because he knows about this fishery more then I do. This is just what I saw today. Good luck.