Thanks for the info salmo!

I could be found almost everyday wading (usually in tennis shoes and jeans) the newaukum when I lived in Onalaska for a year and a half during highschool. I'd even hit the river before work when I had my summer job with the county parks department. One weekend, I took my pack and headed up stream to explore for the weekend by my self. I found water that I know had not been touched by anyone but me for about 20 years (when some areas were clear cut). To my amazement, I even found a few stray Chinook that far up.

I used to really nail it to the SRCs and found some whopping rainbows (12-18inchers)quite often. Several were Kamloops escapees from our neighbors privite pond. I know what you mean about not knowing much about regulations and closed seasons. Well, now I'm 99% catch and release - and don't use bait 99% of the time either. But I can relate to the 'local' mentality. After all, I learned it from my dad. It feels good to know that my sons will be starting out with C&R and understand how to read the regulations...
Anyway - I'd like to go back and visit sometime (: