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…
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What a great time we had at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), in an Alaska Book Week panel hosted by…
My girlfriend returned to the Three Sisters later that afternoon, having abandoned her quest to return to Cordova. No one said…
The skipper and I arrived back in Valdez by midday, with the seine net in tow. Now came the (in)delicate…
LIVE! with Liz Raines and John Thompson on KTVA Anchorage to promote “What Happened in Craig: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass…
The westward turn along the Glenn Highway skirts the Chugach Mountains and then heads into the fertile MatSu valley. I’d…