Mid 70's, summers off....because my career choice was public school teacher. This choice allowed me to fish tide waters in Region 6. North River, Johns River, Elk River, Hoquiams, Humptulips, Satsop, Wynoochee, Wishkah, and the Chehalis saw lot's of me......I trolled...Hillabrant and used worms for bait........lot's of fish, many of them 18" +.......limit was 8 and limits were easy. The largest I ever caught was 23 1/2", drifting "night crawler".

Remember hearing horror stories of people fishing the Hoh and Queets, using sucker meat for bait.......catching baskets full of sea run.

On light gear, for thier size....one of the best fighting fish.

Old saying used to be "Little wild black berries and sea run cutthoat" best after 4th of July......

Rules changed, limit went to 2 of a certain size.......many people stopped fishing for them.

Seems to be on the rebound.....that is a good thing....
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"Worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working"

"I thought growing older, would take longer"