What the heck? Everyone in the world is catching silvers, but none have shown off my beach. Caught some last year right off my back yard!

Did well at a terminal area along shore of the island last week but have been three times now without a hook-up. I can see kings under my canoe, and they're quite active--jumping everywhere, rolling, swimming by...they get chased around by the seals quite a bit and part like the red sea whenever I toss my buzz bomb in the middle of them. Most of them are pretty dark, but some of the jacks are dime-bright. Have also tried roe at different depths under a float with no luck. Anybody got suggestions for hitting spawner kings stuck in the salt? There's no stream, really, for them to go up, so they sit there and circle and circle and circle...until the hatchery spawns them, in a week or so.

I saw the biggest king I think I've ever seen today--swam right alongside my canoe. I actually grabbed the gunwale to steady myself and the boat (earlier a king had soaked my backside with a well-placed splash).

Thanks for your suggestions--

I've fished an inlet that sounds similar to this, there was a hatchery at the head of the inlet and the kings would stack up before spawning, if you hit a tide change early in the morning you "might" get them to take herring otherwise the only thing else that seemed to work were plugs and spoons, namely, a tomic 169 (any color as long as it had a white body with a green stripe) or Superior spoons (chrome and brass) either of these trolled fast, about the only thing that consistantly worked for me. good luck.

Okay if these fish are holding and I mean holding in tidewater then try a whole herring beneath afloat with the bait set for the depth the fish are holding. Or try dead drifting a whole herring with just enough weight(slip sinker) to have the bait settle in to a plunk position amongst the fish. Sometimes a neutral colored cheater or clear bobber can be used to improve the presentation in their faces. They will pick this bait up but you have to feed it to them ...don't get in a hurry unless bobber fishin. If the bobber goes down slam them. If using the other methods you'll have to have a little patience...give them a little slack until you feel it come up tight then slam them!

Gooose

If you haven't already tried done it, try a chartreuse clouser, if that doesn't work, throw an ugly pink plug at them like you were fishing for bass. Obviously the fly is much more fun, but the plug can work great at times.

Try the biggest Mepps you can get or Vibrax.

Size 4 or 5 vibrax. Green body nickel blade. Used to be the standard down in the Coos Bay anandramous fishery.

Thanks for your suggestions...

Had a few followers the other night, and thinking trouty tied on a #2 red gamy as a stinger hook 8" behind my buzz bomb and bam! First cast hooked up a 10lb fairly bright buck. A little later I watched a dark old buck rush up and hook itself...it had the canoe going in circles for a bit. When it tired the dogfish were latching on to it before I could get the hook out...(I ain't sticking my hand down there!)

Will have to try a spoon or a vibrax with a stinger as well...