by Tele | May 23, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, F/V Nerka, Longlining, Women in Fishing
I spent Saturday morning considering odoriferous towers of fish clothes. How threadbare was too much so? The same $3 Value Village hoodies and blood-browned T‑shirts surrounded me, sorted into piles destined to serve yet another season. The...
by Tele | May 16, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, F/V Nerka
The 16 days since Joel blew out his knee have been a bit of a blur. Right away, our living room expanded. It became dining room, with steaming bowls of comfort foods like homemade mac & cheese and rhubarb crisp crowding the coffee table, and...
by Tele | May 10, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, F/V Nerka
Apologies for the last minute notice, friends, but I’ll be talking fish and writing on Port Townsend’s KPTZ this afternoon, 2:30 to 3:30 PST. You can livestream the show here, through KPTZ’s website. Big gratitude to host Phil Andrus for extending this...
by Tele | May 3, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, F/V Nerka, Salmon Trolling
“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of...
by Tele | Apr 21, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, F/V Nerka, Hooked Favorites, Salmon Trolling, Women in Fishing
There’s something about last summer that I never told you. Remember this August post, when I shared little glimpses into the first few days of our king salmon opening? And one of those glimpses was that Joel’s hands were giving him terrible,...
