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...
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...
by Tele | Jun 29, 2019 | Hooked Favorites, Women in Fishing
I wrote this for FisherPoets Gathering 2019. All this time later, I remain thankful for the deeply healing gift of sharing these words with a compassionate audience in the sacred space of Astoria’s KALA Gallery. Maybe it’s strange to post now,...
by Tele | Feb 19, 2017 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
We’re less than a week away from Oregon’s annual FisherPoets Gathering, friends! The highlight of our winter, FisherPoets is always special — this one especially so, as we celebrate the 20th year of commercial fishing women and men from across...
by Tele | Feb 16, 2016 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
It’s almost time, friends! Oregon’s nineteenth annual FisherPoets Gathering is less than two weeks away, with storytellers, musicians, and poets readying to flood Astoria this February 26 – 28. It’s an immersion into the authentic, captains and...
