apeterson

Ive been leeching of the great information on this site for a while now and felt it was finally time to post up.

I'm 18 and am going to Western Washington University in the fall. My mother is in the Army so I grew up moving around and was born in Fairbanks, AK. I watched my parents dip net the Copper River and fish Halibut out of Homer for years before being given my very own rod and reel. Catching my very first coho of Allison Point in Valdez was my first real experience fishing, needless to say I was hooked.  I later  moved to Texas, Cali, and Oregon eventually settling in Puyallup.It was weird seeing the difference of a "monster fish" in Alaska and a "monster fish" in Washington. My first washington fishing trip was to the puyallup based on a recomendation from someone at GI Joes, Me and my dad were amazed to see people combat fishing for humpies because in AK pinks were treated as a trash fish and were often given away to any willing taker. We soon became accustomed to fishing in washington and grew to love the amazing diversity of opportunities we have here. I soon looked into ways to get away from the crowds eventually buying a roughly used sit in kayak to start off the next season. Ive really enjoyed fishing off the yak and have gained a lot of confidence in local bass lakes and trout creeks and just recently started crabbing off solo point and steilacoom with the yak. Thanks again for all the great info you guys have provided me already and I hope to learn a lot more.

Pictures show my first yak caught bass and first fly caught trout.

Austin

Welcome.  You are rad because you followed the advice of a GI Joe's employee.  Many awesome adventures were started that way.  Sweet pics, and a great story.  RIP, Joe.  Post some pics of your sit in yak rigging.  People are hungry for that sort of stuff.

I used to work the Field and Stream counter at the Vancouver GI Joes... great memories.


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Welcome apeterson, sounds like you are enjoying yourself.  I started out my fishing in Wa in that neck of the woods too.

Nice fish!

Welcome, Austin, from a fellow Viking!

Sherman  (class of '82)