I grew up fishing the Sky and Snoqualmie. First steelhead caught at Tokul when I was seven. my dad wouldn't even fish but liked to take me there to learn because you didn't need to cast much. Summers my mom dropped me off at the old Edmonds dock and I would fish the sound all day. I'm sure she had the old timers keeping an eye on me. I also would hike the RR tracks in Mukilteo and catch lot's of piling perch and sea bass. My sisters and I grew up swimming in the sound. We were all strong swimmers. And the Sammamish Slew was loaded with Sockeye back then. I also fished hood canal out of a canoe quite a bit. My neighbor ran a Westport charter in the hey day so we fished there a lot for free. We did family outings with other families up in the Skagit flats for oysters, clam and Crab feeds. Back then you waded in the eel grass with a badmitton racket and a gunney sack and just scooped up the crab. I also hiked and fished all over the Fish lake/lake Wenatchee area. Chiwawa river, White river, Wenatchee river, Icicle river, Yakima river. When I could drive we used to fish the Skagit for Springers. Man that was a good fishery back then. And the Stilly and the Hoh and Bogey. The Kalama wasn't crowded and had huge summer runs and springers in May. Hiked in to lot's of alpine lakes. And I've been fishing Seiku for about 25 years. My parents took us car camping everywhere and I always had my fishing rod along so there are so many lakes, rivers and creeks I can't remember all the names. And not just this state...idaho, Montana the Dakota's, Minn, Wyoming, Oregon and BC.