In my mind, the "Highway" runs on a roughly 300' ridge from the north end of VI to the Columbia River. This ridge stops somewhere mid VI, but the springs keep going. We caught these fish at American Blue Dot which is a stop that the springs make on their way to VI or back to the river. They were all full of 7 inch herring. The coho were too! But their stomachs can only hold one a piece right now since they aren't very big. The key for us was finding birds and lots of them! We got 2 springs the next day but had to work for them and the bait was not as thick, the birds were not as thick, and the dogfish were nowhere to be seen. The first day, the doggies were so thick that they were finning everywhere on top and they would follow the salmon to the boat. The second day, for whatever reason, the water had a brackish brownish color to it. Any ideas on what this was?
