Chetco River - OR

Employees of the Port of Brookings Harbor trowel off a cement pad, an addition to the cleaning station - a place where anglers can conveniently wash out and clean their ice chests. Photo by Larry Ellis.

When Chetco bay trollers went 4 or more hours without a strike, they stuck gold in the form of big lingcod outside the entrance to the Port of Brookings Harbor in 40 feet of water or less. Photo by Larry Ellis.

Scott Gunn and Craig Chisum from Nevada nailed these two chrome-bright kings last week while trolling the Chetco bay with guide Jack Hanson of Jack's Guide Service.

Boats troll the Chetco bay in the hopes of getting one savage take-down from a fresh Chinook.

Anglers are missing out on some spectacular rockfishing out of the Port of Brookings Harbor. This gentleman is holding up two huge copper rockfish, part of a limit of other large rockfish species that he and two other passengers slew on Thursday.

Getting a large, heavy Chinook in a boot to the hatchery truck has to be an assembly line project, being handed to the first person at the bottom of the line. Photo by Larry Ellis.

A booted Chinook is passed from person to person up the line until it reaches its final destination, being put into the hatchery truck, while the people on the line eagerly anticipate the next salmon. Photo by Larry Ellis.

Members of Oregon South Coast Fishermen and ODFW pull a seine full of 50 thrashing Chinook at Social Security Bar on the Chetco River last Thursday. Photo by Larry Ellis.

A chrome-bright Chinook is getting ready to be measured as soon as the other splashing king has its measurements taken. Photo by Larry Ellis.

After being measured, the large Chinook is then slipped inside a rubber boot to protect it while it is manually transported to the hatchery truck. Photo by Larry Ellis.

Jason Gutierrez, deckhand for brookingsfishing.com hoists up a hefty Chinook he caught on the Chetco River on Thursday while working a bobber and sand shrimp cocktail at Social Security Hole.