Good looking fish! Congrats on the success!

A lot of the guys troll with the current and then turn around and troll back against the current. Depending on the tide strength your over the ground speed is a lot slower trolling against the current. What winds up happening is you spend 60%-80% of your time trolling against the tide current and a fairly small amount of time trolling with the tide. Unless I'm sure the fish are concentrated in a given area, when I reach the end of the fishing area, I fire up the big motor and run back up tide. Most guys don't do that.. Trolling with the tide has the addl advantage of trolling the gear into the fishes face and vision instead of coming up behind him where it wont be right in his vision. Its the same thing they do for Springers on the Columbia.

Thanks. I'm slowly learning how things work out there. Barchaser, I think I know what your saying. I always heard to troll with the current, but I always get worried that I'm doing something wrong when I see a lot of boats going against the grain. After a couple runs against the current with no fish to show, we eventually learned to stop at the end of the run, pull gear up and run back up.