In every fishery, across all gear types and target species, there is a shared moment of truth. You’ve placed your bet – selected the spot, set your gear, waited – and now watch with anxious eyes as the line ascends. What will emerge? Experienced trollers can tell by...
Joel isn’t just a salmon charmer… He’s a dedicated salmon steward, too. Thanks to the Seattle Times for publishing his editorial “How B.C. Mining Could Hurt Northwest Fishermen.” Our concerns aren’t simply from an economic...
Joel explains, “I wrote Silence in response to the 2014 Mount Polley disaster, after learning Southeast Alaska’s salmon rivers face similar threats. Silence speaks to the Transboundary region of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska, where many mine...
Yesterday I received a letter from a friend. Dear Tele, she wrote. Many times I think of you and Joel out on the seas all by yourselves. What a contrast it must be to come back to land, people and cities. I wonder if you have caught lots and lots of fish. I wonder if...
June, 1981. Southcentral Alaska’s round-the-clock summer rays nurture life beyond: 1000 pound pumpkins, 100 pound cabbage, perpetually pants-less three-year olds. That afternoon was no exception. Clad in a T-shirt, underpants, and socks, I squatted amongst the...
