by Tele | Sep 11, 2012 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, F/V Nerka, Hooked Favorites, Salmon Trolling, Sitka
Friday, September 7th, is a bad day on the ocean. With the forecast calling for Southeast winds of 35 knots and 11-foot seas, the Nerka spends the morning trolling in the mouth of Gilmer Bay. We hadn’t expected to be fishing at all today. If we...
by Tele | Apr 13, 2011 | Alaska, Culture, Environment, Hooked Favorites, Sitka
On October 14, 2006, the stars lined up just right (in the alignment of bad ocean conditions) that we were tied to the dock on the day of a totem raising. The newspaper explained this “Wellbriety” totem pole, going up at the SouthEast Alaska Regional...
by Tele | Apr 10, 2011 | Alaska, Culture, Environment, Sitka
I’ve yet to find anywhere in the world that gives me the same sense of peace as Sitka does. Just pulling into the harbor and stepping onto the dock, my body relaxes bone-marrow deep. And if I had to pick a single place where that slow down,...
by Tele | Nov 8, 2013 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Family, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
For the most part, I’ve been relying on my Facebook page to promote the books I’m currently loving, the writers who inspire me, the paragraphs so fist-to-my-mouth moving that I want to pass them along to you like the gifts they are. An easy, immediate...
by Tele | Sep 21, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, Salmon Trolling, Women in Fishing
When you leave the boat you’ve called home for the past three months, you will need two dock carts. Ridiculous as clowns spilling from a tiny car, bulging backpacks emerge from the corners of your 7 by 2 by 2 ½ foot bunk, the one space...
