My buddy Bob and I pulled the boat down to Westport on Monday night, got her in the water at 2:00 AM - With two hours sleep, we headed out across the bar at 4:15 and ran about 11 miles at 205 in glassy flat water. Started fishing at 5:00, and both of us had a nice coho on before we could get the flasher and herring below the surface. That pace continued unabated until 2:00 PM, when we finally ran out of bait and energy to reel. Final tally, six dozen herring used (and Bob fished much of the day with a hoochy!), and somwhere around 40 kings and a dozen coho released. Four kings retained, all between 20 and 30 pounds. We were fishing deep (100 - 140 feet) to get out of the coho and still caught quite a few at that depth! Biggest two kings came from 130 feet on a green glow hoochy.

Fished again on Tuesday afternoon after a business meeting, the bite was slower but still managed a nice limit of mostly small kings in a couple hours of fishing.

There is a sign at the launch that is updated each day with the location of the best king action. The quality of fishing out there right now rivals anything one could find in Alaska or BC. Drop every thing and go if you can!

A note of advice - Buy bait before you get to Westport(blue or purple, as the fish are full of very large herring). The stores in town are getting $6.99 a pack for green label!!!!!