Gut contents providing some King clues

If your targeting Puget Sound Salmon this season look at the gut contents of bottom fish.  Many in MA 10 have been coming up packed with small squid and candlefish this year.  I take it as a hopeful sign that Kings will move in soon and set up shop on these food sources.  Salmon move around, these bottom oriented baits not so much. Find the bait, you'll find the fish.  While the herring balls are still thin, and the water is dirty with plankton blooms that never seem to end this year, it might be wise to break out the bottom bouncing jigs early.

I'd share with you where my bait schools are, er, but I already can't remember. I will tell you that the last time I had my candlefish schools lined up in advance of the King run I had to buy a second chest freezer, while the downrigger draggers were howling in pain from their lack of fish.

Tight Lines!