Try trolling really close to shore and near the bottom, say 30-50 FOW. Use cut-plug or a whole herring, either behind a triangle flasher or no flasher at all (no flasher at all is called a "straight bait" presentation). This time of year, many of the Chinook are hugging the shoreline while traveling south towards their respective spawning streams. They'll be less interested in lures, but a well-presented herring can be tough for them to pass up. You'll also avoid most of the coho by fishing tight to shore and close to the bottom. Expect fewer bites, but the bites you do get will most likely be Chinook.

I tried this for about 90 minutes yesterday morning of out of Pacific City. I hooked a lot of fish! But they were all rockfish and lingcod.

When using this strategy do you just take a ton of bait with you and plan on rebaiting often, or was I too close to structure? (I was in 35-50 FOW the entire time, mostly sandy bottom.)