Grew up on the "Rock" and lived a stones throw from the Winslow ferry dock. As a kid I fished for pile perch off the local docks using the little dacron hand line fishing kits you could buy at Vern's Drug for .50 back in the 50's & 60's. Maybe some of you remember the thick green dacron (150# test?) on a square yellow plastic holder that would fit in your back pocket with your slingshot and pocket knife? Didn't take long before I was commandeering dingy's off the beach and fishing for flounder, dogfish and rat fish with my buddies using the same hand lines tipped with bacon. Our hand-line adventures continued as we ventured further afield to places like Restoration & Port Blakely for rockfish & ling cod, always looking forward to the incredible annual true cod migration near Agate Pass where the entire town of Poulsbo turned out enmass with their hand lines too. But before I moved off the "Rock" I had cobbled together a few salmon "poles" and gained access to a wobbly 12 ft Sears Gamefisher with a Evinrude Fisherman. If you would have asked me then and I would have told you that no salmon from Jeff Head to Blake Island was safe in those days. But big salmon lies aside, I will still cherish most the countless days and hours of CNR fly fishing for fiesty cuttthroat off our dock on Agate Point; just me and my dog. Only she wanted to fish as much as I did as a kid.
It wasn't till later that I ran into other wackos like myself and many folks on this board.