Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum are sponsoring my Lecture program at APK next week. Many thanks to this…
At the diner, there were long pauses as we unwound our journey. Life was slowly drifting back to the mundane. And…
When the skipper said that the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game was our real boss, he wasn’t joking. We…
Once we reached port in Valdez, I made a deal with the farm boy. If he’d fix the stove so…
The Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library — APK for short — is also referred to as “SLAM.” That’s an…
Dinner that third evening out was moose spaghetti. There was nothing fancy about it. Loads of noodles. I mean loads.…
The biggest truism in fishing is that one must go where the fish are. They won’t come to you. In…
When you go fishing you gotta dress the part. And when it’s the brutal monotony of commercial fishing, double that.…
The fish we were going for were pink salmon, the mainstay of the canned salmon industry. We caught ‘em by…
There is a rhythm to seine fishing, with three steps repeated over and over, in a near endless cycle meant to…