Jim, not everyone is bored off their gourd in Montana. Some of us still have jobs and wait until they get home from a long day at work to reply to the board. If you don't have much meaningful information to contribute, you may wish to stay out of the discussion.
Onto Mike. You have lots of options. Will you have access to wheels? How much time do you have? How far are you willing to go? Some of your options will depend on the timing of runnoff. Let's assume that the rivers are not blown when you are here. The Nisqually, which runs through part of Fort Lewis, has been said to be an underappreciated jewel for trout fishing; I'm not sure of shore access, but it can be floated. As OMJ mentioned, the Deschutes near Olympia (not to be confused with Oregon River of the same name) has a nice population of native cutthroat; it is about an hour to hour and a half south of FL. You have a number of options if you drive west to east on Hwy. 12 from the coastal plain over the crest of the Cascades at White Pass, and down the east side. About 3 hours south of FL is the Cowlitz River (Blue Creek, Mission Bar, etc.). June is too early for the searun cutts, which are a blast on a fly rod, but there should be summer steelhead around (6 wt. minimum). [About 4-5 hours south of FL is the Kalama, another steelhead river.] If you head east on Hwy. 12, the clearer tributaries of the Cowlitz, such as the Cispus R., Yellowjacket Creek, and N. Fork of the Cispus, can be fun on lighter flyrods; I've caught rainbows and cutts from these rivers/ creeks. Skate Creek is one of the few stocked (with rainbows) rivers in Washington. On the east side of the crest, the Naches and its tribs, the Little Naches, Bumping River, and American River will have cutts and rainbows, but snowmelt could determine how fishable they are.
Toward the Olympic Peninsula, the North Fork of the Skokomish R., as it enters Olympic National Park (2-3ish hours from FL), is fun and hugely different than anything you would have fished in NJ, but this also is snowmelt dependent. There are a number of other tribs that enter into Hood Canal from the Olympics (plus searuns in the Canal) and the Elwha River near Port Angeles (more typically fishable later in the summer); these may be more than a day trip away, but the days are long in late June - dusk after 10PM.
Unfortunately, by late June, the Yakima, Washington's blue-ribbon trout stream, will be in the middle of its irrigation season. That means high water and little wade access. But if you can wrangle a ride on a drift boat, it can fish very nicely (and the bikini hatch can be distracting....).
Finally, if you consider tides to simply be rivers that reverse direction several times a day (2 tide cycles per day on this coast vs 1 per day on the east coast), you have lots of trout-fishing options along the shores for searun cutthroat (up to 20+") or even the occasional resident coho salmon (but they appear to be scarce this year). There are a bunch of location from Seattle to Olympia and along Hood Canal that have searuns; a search of the archives would be worth your time.....
For everything but steelhead, light rods, 3's to 6's, are sufficient. For summer steelhead, a 6 wt. will do the job, but a heavier rod might be better.
Good luck,
Steve
