My neighbor who was a distant relative dammed up this little creek and he had a couple of dozen steelhead in his pond. Used to watch them but never fished as they were his pets.

I used to fish Dogfish bay and creek for sea run cutts when I was 12. I went over to a friends to fish the creek at this nice hole up past Valley nursery where the creek forks off Bond Road. It was early March 1974. I had seen steelhead in the river before. I caught a 14 in cutt on a bobber and worm using my Wright & McGill fiberglass spinner rod and Daiwa reel. Then I had a strike and set the hook. After a good fight he broke off. Then I see my line in the water and pull the fish up. Measured up to 18 1/2 inches so technically a jack. I have a digital copy of the picture. My dad took me over to Quilcene and the Dosewallips to fish as I was hooked. I used to fish Grover's creek on our property for trout and once we saw a pair of spawning steelhead behind the chicken coop.

Didn't fish again until I was in my late 20s. My father in law used to give us steelhead and soon I was fishing with him in Oregon on the Siletz usually the day after a holiday. I took some time off work in the summer during the week back around 94. We fished this hole called the lower point and he caught the first one. He told me where to cast and let drift through two boulders and bam fish on. We did the yellow jacket hole which is deep but had some riffles further up. We each got one and limited out. Had to use barbless hooks that season. Yellow Jacket had this boulder and driftwood so you could get to the riffle. Flood of 1998 changed the Yellow Jacket.