A Legendary Fishing River Devastated

The Washington Mudslide Has Devastated A Legendary Fishing River

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/washington-mudslide-may-devastated-pristine-fishing-river-years-come/

Used to sneak out of high school just to drive up there and fish,,,of course that was back in the 60's!
Real tragedy!

I caught my first cutthroat in that river in l946, under Hwy 9 Bridge.

Caught my first two steelhead in the early '60s at the upper end of the Steelhead Haven properties - now under slide debris. The river and the fishery will survive.....my thoughts still with the families of the dead and missing.

fished that river with my dad in the 50's

No sh!t.......did the same thing at the same time.

Slab--
We probably stood next to each other fishing back then, both thinking we were getting away with something. I was running up from Shorecrest High!