ya man...ive lived in kirkland all my life and since then, the samamish slough has turned into a river...what a joke that is. i drive over the "alledged river" every day heading north on 405 on my way to work, and as i drop down to the bothell interchange, just past the 160th, i always look to see if i can see fish surfacing or birds or whatever, and there is a little tuft of land jutting out where in my younger days, there was always some ol' buzzard standin there with his plunkin spike set up just waitin for a steelie. now its a river...jeez my buddy used to to slam salmon in there back in like 1978 or so. wow how things have changed. i used to go up to the tolt and hike in. and there, were the coolest fishy holes youd ever seen. the last time i was up there, and granted that was a long time ago, but id hike down someones fench line over a beaver dam and that was the coolest spot opening up to a perfect steelhead hole that no one knew about. i used to catch steelhead on friggen nightcrawlers. but as i was eluding to, the last time i was there, across the river where that fishy hole was, was bulldozed all the damn way down to the river and the big tree shading the hole was gone. i almost cried. all for the sake of some jaggass developer trying to screw someone to fatten his wallet. thats progress, oh well....whaddayadoo...i am a native of this area, unlike most people around here anymore, i guess thats why it smacks me in the huevos so hard to think of this crap...