I am heading out to Neah Bay July 5 to 7th w/ a 16' lund and looking to have my father catch some kings. Is there much action just outside the bay and what is the best thing to use? Will I have much luck with flasher/hootchie or spoon or do I have to use plug cut bait? How deep are the fish these days? Tide?

Thanks for your help!

I just returned from there an hour ago. I fished on a couple of charters but listened on 68 for the catch reports. They were getting a few 20+ close in just outside and toward Tatoosh. I didn't hear what they were using at that location but we caught kings on flasher/hoochie combo's. Our trip out to blue dot and 72 square filled our boat with all 20+ lb fish then we limited on lings in the 20-25 range. The next trip we fished out in the channel trolling the rips using the same gear and limited on king and silver combinations but the kings were smaller. Thursday was warm and dry and today was cold and wet.

We fished about 12 miles south of tatoosh earlier this week and did well with kings, though we didn't get any jumbos. Biggest around 20. Friends in another boat in the same area got a few in the mid-high 20s and a
32. Red glow hotspot with hootchies accounted for the majority of the action for us, but also picked up some on spoons and plugs. Keeper coho were tough to come by, but we got some nice ones for this time of year.
On tuesday we played around in the straits between mushroom and warmhouse beach and found a lot of midlevel bait. Some fish too. If I was in a 16ft Lund, thats were I'd be. 200-250 ft of water.