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My girlfriend returned to the Three Sisters<\/em>\u00a0later that afternoon, having abandoned her quest to return to Cordova. No one said a thing about her absence. With two greenhorns on the crew, we were better off with<\/em> her commercial fishing experience than without<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

Our\u00a0fishing adventure started at 3 am that\u00a0morning, as we shoved off and headed out of Valdez\u00a0toward, we hoped, the fish that awaited us. In this commercial fishing business, the fish rule everything. Our skipper, like most experienced fishermen in the fleet, had his favorite spot and he wanted to hit it by dawn.<\/p>\n

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\nPurse Seiner with skiff in tow<\/strong>, Valdez, Alaska<\/p>\n

As we chugged into Valdez Arm, the skipper\u00a0told us that\u00a0Bligh Reef was lurking dead ahead. He was quick to communicate our most important lesson for\u00a0this leg of the\u00a0journey: always stay to the starboard side of the red\u00a0navigation buoy at Rocky Point. This was the marker that led us away from\u00a0those treacherous\u00a0\u00a0rocks on which the Exxon Valdez had foundered.<\/p>\n

But I had a different problem. It was that damned diesel stove. No matter the fixes the farm boy had put in, the thing kept going out at the most inopportune times. Which, when you’re cooking, is pretty much any time. And I had breakfast to fix for four hungry crewmembers at the crack of dawn. There would be eggs, scrambled. Lots of eggs. Bacon, fried. Lots of bacon. And toast. Whole wheat toast. Plus sandwiches for the skiffman.<\/p>\n

We’d fish from dawn to dusk, the skipper said. We were going for the money. The crew needed full bellies. The downside was that we’d have precious few moments to eat; we’d have to grab and go between sets. The skiffman wouldn’t even have time to come in for his meals. Under those circumstances, a recalcitrant stove was the last thing I wanted. We’d try one more fix. When we had time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I got the feeling\u00a0this was a problem I’d have to work around. Not just daily, but hourly.<\/p>\n

Especially after I learned about my other job. I would be stacking net after each set. K. would be the lead stacker, so at least I had someone to show me the ropes. My imagination nevertheless took me places it didn’t belong.<\/p>\n

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\nStacking net<\/strong> as I imagined it<\/p>\n

Now I had to figure out how to cook, stack nets and<\/em> keep the stove going. I was most worried about the latter. My mind raced to things I could start on the burners and then finish in the oven. Casseroles. Oh God, the dreaded casserole.<\/p>\n

Copyright Leland E. Hale (2018). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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\"Craig\"<\/p>\n

Order “What Happened In Craig<\/strong>,” HERE<\/strong><\/a> and HERE<\/strong><\/a>, true crime from Epicenter Press about Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My girlfriend returned to the Three Sisters\u00a0later that afternoon, having abandoned her quest to return to Cordova. No one said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,14,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaskas-worst-unsolved-mass-murder","category-craig-alaska","category-mass-murder","category-the-investor","category-what-happened-in-craig"],"yoast_head":"\nLeland E. Hale Finally Goes Commercial Fishing (Really) - Leland E. Hale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Commercial fishing resembles sport fishing in that you must go to the fish. They won't come to you. But this was full on fishing. 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