DYNOMITE! I fished Westport 13 & 14 Sep I have never had such great fishing. Catch and release was required or I would have sank the boat and probably been thrown in jail. Sunday I checked the weather, bar, tides, on line reports. I saw that conditions would be just about perfect for my 17' fishing machine. The only surprise was it wasn't just a little fog first thing in the morning with the typical burnoff by 10am. Tuesday it was socked in on the water the whole day, you could see up at some clear sky but not outward very far. I was headed out to the 250' depth, I saw a large group of birds at about the 200' and popped in there instead. I wasn't disappointed, BAM! FISH ON! Ace Hi fly behind a green dodger down 30' of wire. 8-12 pound silvers was the norm, release wild coho. One fish after another with just enough time in between to snack and fiddle with the plotter. I called it a day by 10:30 since I was already looking at being awake 36 hours. Tuesday there were so many fish to catch and release I didn't have time to eat breakfast till I shut down the motor and stopped fishing just drifting out there, nearly the only boat within sight. Speed was always 3 1/2 + mph SOG. These fish slammed my lure several times on the surface before or while I was clipping them into the rigger, pulling the line right out my hand! Two whales breached close to the boat about a dozen times as they headed north, I could hear them, they were HUGE. I suspect the salmon would have hit just about anything but since the Ace Hi worked, I didn't change it. LOL That would have just been stupid! LOL Season ends the 19th, just enough time to get one run out there. Fish are always on the move, look for birds and drop a line! After fishing Puget Sound last week with dismal results, this was way more than I had expected.

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