I fished Westport on Wed. with my daughter, her friend from Rochester, NY and my fishing buddy. This was the first time in several years that the boat did not limit out. The charter boats were running about 25 miles down by Willapa Bay. I didn't want to go that far so we went straight out west about 9 miles to 175'. Christina from NY caught her first salmon by 0645. It was a short but very fat 32 lb king. It was taken at 45 ' on a 4" glow green/white coyote spoon behind a flasher. She was physically drained by the time I netted the fish. After releasing several small chinook or wild cohos, we caught a 13 lb chinook at 100' on a magnum green glow squid behind a green glow flasher. A short while later we got a nice 8 lb hatchery coho at 25' on a white glow squid. From about 10:00 to noon we had no action at all. Then we started picking up blackmouth on the magnum green squid at 100'. We kept one that was just over the legal 26" limit and released about 4 others that were too small or had too many fins. Though we ended up with half a limit, the weather and water conditions were great and a new fisherman started off with a bang.

Deepwater

whats up with running 25-30 miles this time of year out of westport. was there last sunday the fleet ran north that day 30miles. did justy like u guys out about 10miles 180ft. water not many fish but nice ones!

We fished yesterday too, and had limited sucsess, found our three kings, unfortunetly I lost the big one at the boat that may have been over 35. We did not get any keeper fish till after noon, and could not find many coho at all. We too fished strait out about 9 miles, ended with abunch of rockfish and kings at 23,18,12. Unbelievable water though for my first trip, at 8 pm it was glass all the way in.

NEN

If you want silvers go to Ilwaco. I just got back from there and it was limits of them before noon everyday.

Was out at Westport on 7/30 with cd seattle fished about 10 miles out to the north at 47 00.000 124 23.000 in 170 ft of water, more fish that we knew what to do with, herring was working probably the best, that's what we found in there gut, released many wild coho some samller chinook, kept a 20# chinook some 6# silvers, trying to work out a date to get back out there,

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This was wednesday, 45 pounds
Got a 32#er thursday, So far this year we have gotten a 45, 36, 32, 28, 27, 25 and 22 # king on my boat.
Going back again tomorrow.
45#er was a white king too.

Nice Fish!!! Beautiful!

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mmmm, unprocessed fish sticks
Thats half of the 45# white king and half of a 32# normal king.