Grew up around the Salem, Or. area. Caught my first fish at age 12 on the willamette river(big ol carp) and I was hooked! Spent my early teen years fishing the mill pond at the end of our street for bass. Once I got my drivers license I was all over the place. trout fishing the willamette tribs., steelheading the N. fork Siletz, rockfish off the coastal rocks and the yaquina bay jetty, salmon out of Depoe Bay. Met and married a local gal(Marysville) and when she wanted to move back home I had no objections as I fell in love with the sound. Have been actively fishing the sound and straits ever since which would be the last 27yrs