I caught my first fish ever on Fish Lake, My family still has a cabin up there. I loved fishing up there because a full stringer was the norm at the end of each day, along with 1000 misquito bites.

My Father has worked for several large commercial seafood companies all his life here in Seattle, so as a kid he was always bringing me along to fish with his buddies in the Rivers and Puget Sound.
Growing up in Bellevue, I fished the Sammamish slough and Lake Washington alot as a kid... First Steelhead came from Sammamish slough in Redmond below the RR bridge! Our house was right next to Kelsey Creek, which used to hold alot of brooks and rainbows. Up to a couple years ago I still used to go down and fish at Enatai beach under I-90 for trout.

Once I was 16 and had wheels, we would fish the upper Tolt alot, The Sky, Snoqualmie, and camp along the banks of the Skagit for silvers and pinks in the fall. We would make a few trips out to the OP now and then for a change of scenery. I spent alot of time fishing the Green river gorge, love that place.


I used to go to Twanoh State park every summer with my cousins and family. There we would fish for Salmon on the great bend, and big sharks at night from the docks. Sometimes we would hike up Twanoh creek to Mason lake and bushwack our way in to find some cutthroat and trout spots before the area was developed.

We loved to fish Cutthroat from the beach at Mukilteo south of the point as well as in the Ferry wash.

I never fished the sound too much until my twenties. My buddy Geoff had killer moorage right inside Shilshole bay at a private residence, so we would frequently fish before work at West Point, 4 mile, "the trees" north of Carkeek. During those years I really learned the sound and alot about little spots here and there.

Now I just read about fishing on the internet.