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Tried to avoid the crowd at the hole in the wall and went over to the ship canal. Had 3’ waves outside of the canal and had trouble maintaining speed. We tried inside the canal for 2 hours with one release on a rigger down 18’ with an orange 00 dodger and blue/green fly.

Moved to the 2nd light with no success before we had to get off the water. We tried the following:

Port Yellow bird - red and black thin fin 50’ back, then wonder bread thin fin.

Port rigger - same as above the entire time

Center rod - size 0 dipsy without the ring out 16’ with an orange j-11

Starboard rigger - 00 dodger with green/black fly and then gold/black fly down 20’. Slider with orange crush spoon

Starboard flatline - firetiger flicker shad out 100’, switched to pink Yakima 2.5 out 50, then 75, then 100

Starboard yellow bird - gold/red thin fin out 35, then 50, then 65. Switched to a pink Yakima 2.5 out 50’

Speed was around 2.2 and it varied based on direction. As low as 1.9 and as high as 2.6

Any suggestions on how to make our trip more productive would be appreciated. This year has been slow for us and anything at this point would be helpful.

Thanks in advance!

We went 4 for 6 today. We had to kick up speed to about 2.6 to start getting fish. All of our lines that took fish were flat lines on planar outside with a 3/8 Keel and inside 5/8 keel wieght with the one exception being we had one Coho Crusher deeper running lure that we had no inline weight. This time of year I generally don't use dipsys unless I put out a dodger fly and even then I sometimes run them on heavier inline weights. Others did much better than we did today but generally that is my spring setup for Coho so take it for what its worth.