My first was in 82 on the Humptulips. My friend and I were fishing the Humptulips River at the school bus turnaround on the Humptulips Valley Road. We borrowed some tackle from my stepfather and after a lot of trial and error we started catching a cutthroat using Stee lee #2 spoons with a piece of nightcrawler on the hook. We were just getting ready to leave after cleaning out the cutthroat, and just as i was about the retrieve the spoon a good sized summer run hammered it. Somehow I got it in, and my stepfather was quite surprised and impressed with both the steelhead and the cutthroat when he came to pick us up and hour later.

I was also there when the friend I was fishing with got his first steelhead underneath the railroad bridge on the Satsop a year later. He was using a half a night crawler and a pink shrimp scented marshmallow.