The next morning the sky clears and I put my newly perfected mooching techinque to good use, landing a quick limit of silvers and a couple pinks. The wind comes up before everyone is limited and Kain takes us across the sound to a secluded spot that is holding a school of silvers that want to eat lures. I take a backseat to the expertise of Bobby Loomis with the metal Crippled Herring and Bryce Kiltonen with the plastic B-2 Squid, as they outstrip everyone during the catch and release action. Secrest does use one of his imported Fish Trap swim bait plastics to hook a couple silvers. What's most impressive with the swim baits is how they attract bands of following salmon right to the boat's stern. Now the wind really hoots, but we huddle in the cabin as the sportfisher pounds through the swell. It's still nasty when we get to the spot, so much so that Kain decides to stay at the wheel and make controlled drifts over the reef. Bob, Sr. chooses to keep him company since the target now is lingcod and that means deep jigging. We're treated to an awesome sight as Kain makes a turn over the reef to set up the drift. "Whoa, look at that, it's all silver salmon," Secrest cries out and scambles to grab his swim bait rod. It's a huge school of silver salmon up near the surface - what we would call a breezer in offshore fishing for yellowtail or tuna - and we're so close you can see perfectly individual fish out of the hundreds swimming south. "That's why the fishery here is Sitka is so amazing", says Kain. "The fish use this coastline as a migratory landmark. Every salmon headed for most of southeast Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and ever Oregon and California from out of the Bering Sea comes by here."