In April 1984 I was a teen fishing off of a Skagit Bay saltwater beach using a small brass "Motto" spinner (I don't think these lures are made anymore) for cutthroat and dollies. I had just casted out and was letting the spinner sink to the bottom when something big grabbed it at made my cardinal spinning reel sing a tune. I fought the fish for 25 minutes before I finally got it in on 6lb test. The fish was a 14lb Skagit springer, fish was bonked because it was legal to do so and to this day it was one of the best fish I've ever eaten.

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"It makes no sense to regulate salmon habitat on land while allowing thousands of yards of gill nets to be stretched across salmon habitat in the water"

John Carlson, Gubernatorial Contender, Sept. 2000 speech at the Ballard Locks