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Launched out of Everett in the fog at about 7am after waiting in line at the boat launch which was backed up all the way to Marine View Drive. Started trolling from Mukilteo and trolled south with one rod set at 40' and one set at 60'. One rod was setup using a purple haze flasher, purple haze hoochie with a purple haze Ace Fly Hi insert, and other was setup with a Luhr Jensen Double glow flasher with a green splatter back Ace Hi Fly Needlefish. Both rods had the hooks tipped with herring chunks (tried strips, but chunks have produced just as good for us). After a while with no hookups, we did a bait check (had seaweed on hooks) then sent both lines back down to 60 and 50 where most marks were. We start marking a real thick pile of fish on the fish finder, and soon after both lines pop and we have our first double of the season. I get mine to the boat first, and my daughter nets the fish which is a small 3lb hatchery buck. I rush to get the fish out of the net and get it out just in time to land my brothers fish which was a 5lb hatchery buck. After that we loop back around and hit the same spot again with no luck then try a few other spots also with no other luck. We noticed the shipwreck area was real dead with pretty much no marks on the fish finder. Most of the marks we saw were south of the wreck or in the middle of the channel (north of wreck) where we had the double. We gave up around 12. The fish checker said avg was 2/boat so far. I took a pic of the fish finder right before we got that double, but the depth reads wrong in the deep water. I need to see if I can fix that problem, otherwise I'll be ditching the Garmin and looking into a Lowrance.