Sandman,
You hit the nail right on the head and I was so convinced the name was something sounding Washington/Oregon/Idaho-ish, it didn't jar my feeble brain!
When searching for more information, I was sad to see the company is no longer in business and the trademark was retired in 2001.
I have some really nice memories of fishing those little spoons in the beautiful little lakes above Bremerton when I was 16 (1977). It was my first and only trip to Washington and I stayed at my sister's place most of the summer, trolling for salmon with my brother-in-law and fishing for trout on my own. I didn't want to come home! After my two week visit had stretched to six weeks, my parents made my sister put me on a plane back to NY.
I did a lot of trolling on Puget Sound and Hood Canal. We used flashers (or was it dodgers?) behind heavy lead sinkers in a spring-loaded sinker release that dropped them when you hooked a fish. I remember buying whole frozen bait (herring?) to use on those rigs.
We varied the size of the sinkers (they were huge -- like maybe 8-12oz.?) and how many strips of line off the reel we had trolling behind us to adjust depth. At that tender age, I was exposed to my first experience with fishermen fibbing: We had some nice fish in the boat. As another guy trolled by in the opposite direction he asked how we were doing so we hoisted a couple of big salmon. When he asked how much weight and how many strips back, my BIL yelled out some totally bogus combination. I was completely shocked that he would lie to another fisherman like that! He's a funny guy and I really think he did it more to surprise me than to hide the information. I'll never forget it though!