What rivers ,lakes, creeks or Salt water did you grow up fishing? What are your favorite memories of fishing there?

I grew up on the Snohomish system and the Stilly. We would also spend time every summer on the Icicle. I fished the small creeks between Snohomish and Monroe with my uncles in the summer. We could walk from his house. The Canary grass would grow tall along the banks and the grass hoppers where thick. We would stuff our pockets with hoppers and crawl up to the creek so we would not spook the fish. We would have no weeight and just a hopper on a hook. We ould dangle the hopper in the water under a cutbank covered in grass. Whamol cuttthroat up to 3 or 4 lbs would hammer the hopper and the fight was on. Your heart would jump at the tug of the line. I was 5 when I started fishing this way.