RUNnGUN... I'm with you 100%.. Ah, the memories.

Back in the early '80's, there were all kinds of great fisheries going on. Ocean, Puget Sound, South Sound, Staight of Juan de Fuca, not to mention almost every river in the state but especially the anadromous streams here in SW Washington.

All of this mainlyy due to one old Norwegion guy named Harry Senn. He was just an old pond scrubber who rose to the position of Chief of Hatcheries for the now defunct Dept. of Fisheries for WA State. What he did for the hatchery programs is now just a legend. I'm somewhat blessed to have become a close friend of his.

Back then in the early '80's. there would be 30, if not 40 trucks and boat trailers parked at the I-5 boat launch on the Cowlitz every day fishing for spring chinook.

Back then, you could not get a place to stay at Seiku in Sept. unless you paid some sort of bribe to the resort owner.

Fast forward 30 years... It is now what it is.

Thanx Harry... You have not been forgotton.