Yes we honestly did hook into 10 springs in one day not too long ago.
It's slowed down considerably as of late, (may usually is a bit slow here according to my fishing journal) well as far as getting them to the boat, I've had a few lost to seals (a 15lb+ yesterday) and landed a small 8lb, this was over an 8 hour day.
My buddy and I have had 3 hogs break off including one that robbed him of a rod and reel.
Where I fish, its a hump that comes up from 260 to 175 pinnacle, about 500 yards long but only 100 yards wide where on the outside it drops down to 300 feet. I usually take my fish at about the 180-190 depth around this oval shaped hump (we call it the hump.)
A lot of people fish this same spot but there is a lot of tricks to it, obviously tidal flow is one of them and fishing into the salmon instead of away from them is key, but knowing what side and depth they hold at on each tide change and depending on how fast its ripping through is a huge factor as well, so over time I've become pretty dialed in on this one area. Mind you the stretch from the Quadra lighthouse to Lambert channel/Chrome Island is not all that far really and there are a lot of productive holes between these two locations, so we're pretty lucky as far as fishing goes here.
On average from december to mid april I would say we averaged 5 fish per outting.
As of right now the blue backs are schooling and feeding heavily on the surface, there are some big summer run chinook in the area already (first one made it to the hatchery april.6) and the hatchery has some hogs in its holding tank. The seals are getting thick but fortunately the dogfish havent shown up yet so a guy can still do well with cut plug or anchovy/teaser head combos.
My biggest tip to anyone right now is "purple haze"
