My dad, an ol' Ozarks boy, taught me fishing on Lincoln Creek in Lewis County. Floated a worm in the creek after sneaking up to the hole. Later we fished Spirit Lake in the mid sixties. Old Harry Truman took some of us kids and showed us how to catch trout under a log jam in the small creek than ran near the lodge.

He was very nice to us kids.

We fished the salt at Westport and Seiku. I still do in my own boat now. We fished the bush lakes of Canada and the big ones too.

He had a lot of fishing friends but he always preffered the compnay of his boys. He's gone now and now I take my two sons.


I like to fish the Cowlitz, Kalama (when my friend takes me in his drift boat), the Queets and the Hoh.

I fish the salt at Seiku and the Canal. And once in a while I go to Alaska and do pretty well in the Soldotna area. Will be going to Yakutat next year.