I fished HH with Jason on Sunday. We got the boat in the water about 0800. Started trolling south right from the launch at Mukilteo. We had a few hits but no fish in the boat, seemed slow at first.

We heard a distress call, to the Coast Gaurd, on my handheld VHF from the Tammy Too, a 24' Bayliner. The Tammy Too was a drift and slowly floating in to shore just south of the Mukilteo launch in 9' of water. They had no engine power. Jason and I started looking around the water and noticed a boat just north of us really close to shore matching the boats description. There was one other boat close to the Tammy Too but I don't think they had a VHF on board. We decided to go and check and see if we could lend a hand to the Tammy Too. We ended up towing the Tammy Too back to the Mukilteo launch (they wanted to go back to Everett). Towing the Tammy Too took us about a half an hour to get them back to the launch. They were very grateful!

Back to fishing. We started trolling south again close to the shoreline. We initially were trolling with Hot Spots, herring dodgers, and Coho Killers. After a while we tied on pink hoohies and found a school of humpies porpoising on the surface. We trolled around the surfacing humpies and were getting hit after hit, LDR'd (long distance released) a few fish, and boated four fish. Then the bite died off like someone had flipped a switch. We did not get another fish till we started trolling back to the launch to put the boat on the trailer. Five fish total for us for the day.

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