I'll give you some sage advice. Go there, spend the weekend, or better yet spend a week exploring. Meet the locals, buy a tank or two of gas, buy dinner, buy beers, hire a guide (like the guy who owns this BB) talk about why you're there. If you love the outdoors, and truly show your passion, you'll find great reward. If you're a douche looking for a quick fish, you'll get beat up, go home empty handed and never go back. The people who really know, don't talk, that's why you'll get zero helpful replies on a post like this. It's not hard, you could pick up a copy of the Washington Gazeteer, you could use Google Earth, but if you show up in the area, with genuine interest and passion, you'll learn more in a day than you will in a lifetime on the web. Make a journey - remember, it's not the fish, it's the thousand casts and the friends made along the journey that matter. There are soooo many cool people along the coast, legends, in fact. Barlow, Ball, Graham, Ruble, Leons....... Learn their story, their lives. It's amazing. I'm a simple man, but the friends/acquaintences I made in Forks over the years I was fishing there are the most real people I know. Go forth and learn. Enjoy the Journey.