by Tele | May 29, 2023 | Reading & Writing
Hi dear ones – Been a long while, friends. I hope you’re well. Last time we talked, it was to mourn Halcyon the Destroyer, Team Nerka’s too-bold-for-this-world adventure cat who left us too soon. Today I’m back to share happier news. I’m thrilled to announce...
by Tele | Jul 12, 2021 | Women in Fishing
The ocean got Halcyon on Opening Day. July 1, we had our gear in the water by 3:30. Five miles offshore, it was windy that morning. Choppy seas, wet air, visibility less than a mile, everything steely gray. When the first fish of the season...
by Tele | Aug 10, 2020 | Women in Fishing
The water was warm last summer. Dixon Entrance to Sitka, Southeast Alaska felt eerily barren – no bait, no birds. All July & August, the coho were skittish, unwilling to school up or settle into traditionally favored spots. With no hot bites to...
by Tele | May 16, 2020 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Environment, Hooked Favorites, Salmon Trolling
For Southeast Alaska’s salmon trollers, the longest day of the year falls on July 1: opening day of Chinook salmon season. Every July 1 finds us – two humans and our boat, the 43-foot Nerka – forty miles offshore in the Gulf of Alaska. We’ll be in our boots...
by Tele | Apr 10, 2020 | Commercial Fishing, Hooked Favorites, Salmon Trolling, Women in Fishing
Back in Sitka from a coho trip, I feed 17 days’ worth of rank socks, hoodies, soap, & quarters into the fishermen’s Co-op washing machines. Nearby deckhands slump into a battered couch, stare down at phones or up at the TV, salmon trollers zoned out on...
