Some more clear water King tips to try: If you are fishing from a boat with any current present, quietly anchor far above the fish and use floats to bait fish down thru the holding water. Try different depths than just right on bottom. If you have egg &/or sandshrimp robbers, try cured whole prawns commonly used for Springers- threaded on a single 4/0 hook with as light of 36" leader that you have a chance to land a King with (most Kings aren't shy of 10# Maxima leader even in real clear water). Another trick I use down here that you rarely see is to use a raw jumbo prawn tail (greyish shell & opaque meat), with the shell segments on & then follow with the shell peeled off and a little pink yarn added (a bit expensive, but often worth it). If you are bankfishing, I like the idea mentioned above of casting your floats upstream to drift down into the fish. From above again, after you have tried bait, try size 30 blue/silver Hot Shots & also sardine filet wrapped K14 Kwikfish with a 50" leader to 22" lead dropper ratio- use as light of lead that will allow you to get it downstream to the fish and keep it near bottom. If enough current, slowly backreel them with action downstream from anchorup. If not, float or cast them down into the fish to hover. If still not enough current for proper action, float or cast the plug or cast the Kwikfish way out below the fish & slowly reel these up thru the holding water with proper action. Hold the plug rodtip low to the water, or if it's quite deep put the rodtip down into the water about 3' & slowly reel up thru the fish - this works great for slow clear water Kings. Smaller size 3 steelhead spinners can work in these conditions as can salmon streamer flies on a sinktip line- drift & swing them thru or slowly twitch and strip them in. Excuse the long ramble, I get like that. - Steve Hanson