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Leland E. Hale: Fishing the Salmon Lifecycle

October 26, 2018 admin Leave a comment

The biggest truism in fishing is that one must go where the fish are. They won’t come to you. In…

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Leland E. Hale: All Geared Up For Fishing

October 24, 2018 admin Leave a comment

When you go fishing you gotta dress the part. And when it’s the brutal monotony of commercial fishing, double that.…

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Leland E. Hale: Moose Meat & Bycatch

October 23, 2018 admin Leave a comment

The fish we were going for were pink salmon, the mainstay of the canned salmon industry. We caught ‘em by…

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Leland E. Hale: Three Sisters Fish Juggler

October 22, 2018 admin Leave a comment

There is a rhythm to seine fishing, with three steps repeated over and over, in a near endless cycle meant to…

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Alaska Book Week: All the News

October 20, 2018 admin Leave a comment

This is the “All the News” edition of the lelandhale.com blog. Thanks to these dedicated journalists, there’s a record of…

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UAA Podcast: True Crime vs Perfect Crime

October 19, 2018 admin Leave a comment

What a great time we had at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), in an Alaska Book Week panel hosted by…

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Leland E. Hale Finally Goes Commercial Fishing (Really)

October 18, 2018 admin Leave a comment

My girlfriend returned to the Three Sisters later that afternoon, having abandoned her quest to return to Cordova. No one said…

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The Three Sisters: Nothing But (Seine) Net

October 16, 2018 admin Leave a comment

The skipper and I arrived back in Valdez by midday, with the seine net in tow. Now came the (in)delicate…

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Leland E. Hale: “Live” on KTVA Anchorage

October 11, 2018 admin Leave a comment

LIVE! with Liz Raines and John Thompson on KTVA Anchorage to promote “What Happened in Craig: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass…

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Talkeetna: In The Shadow of Denali

October 10, 2018 admin Leave a comment

The westward turn along the Glenn Highway skirts the Chugach Mountains and then heads into the fertile MatSu valley. I’d…

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Kill Brother, Kill Sister

On September 30, 1976, a vehicle explosion rocked downtown Anchorage. When the dust settled, Muriel Pfeil was trapped in the driver’s seat. Dead.

Her brother immediately blamed Neil Mackay, Muriel’s estranged ex-husband — a multi-millionaire lawyer and real estate mogul. Robert Pfeil knew the motive: Mackay wanted custody of the couple’s only child, three year old Scotty.

photo credits: alaskahistory.org; anchorage times; alice puster

Kill Brother, Kill Sister

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