I remember well the Mt. St. Helens eruptions. On May 22, 1980, I was drinking coffee, waiting for it to get "lighter".....it never really did that day, walked outside and the air was full of ash and it was a light rain, of course EVERYTHING was covered with the ash.

2 things.....Wynoochee River was open for steelhead fishing, that year in May, and was for many years.

and the Wynoochee River had not only the summer steelhead but a run of SPRING CHINOOK. Dick Stone, WDFW, called the springers "dip in" and did his best to eliminate, that run......enough said about that.