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...
by Tele | Jun 20, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Hooked Favorites, Women in Fishing
When the Kathleen Jo pulls out of her stall at noon, I am there to see them off. My five year old shipmate waves wildly through the starboard window. As soon as they turn the corner, I begin the trek to my new home, eager to get settled in...
by Tele | Jun 8, 2013 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Longlining, Women in Fishing
Since launching Hooked two years ago, I’ve joked that the boats I work on may institute a confidentiality clause in my crew contracts. Some captains, upon seeing themselves in print, discover they’d prefer to keep their business private,...
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 | 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,...
by Tele | Mar 22, 2013 | Hooked Favorites, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
(Hang on, sweeties… We’re going to take the scenic drive.) On February 22, after meticulously shepherding my proposal through revision after revision, my agent Pamela pronounced it ready to shop. “Let’s go,” she wrote. Time passed in a dizzying...
