Fishing Up North (eBook)

Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters

Brad Matsen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
242 Seiten
Graphic Arts Books (Verlag)
978-0-88240-984-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This new edition contains new stories and updates from the super heated days when fishing fleets turned king crab into fortunes, to the annual circus of Bristol Bay's monster salmon runs, to the bucolic life of the open ocean trawler, the true stories in Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters" captures the flavor of the modern fisherman's life and fortunes in the waters off Alaska. You'll find firsthand accounts of frightening weather, good fishing, terrible fishing, great days, and sweet living from the decks of crabbers, trawlers, longliners, trollers, and gillnetters. This book and others inspired film crews to trek to Alaska and cover the crabbing seasons for reality TV shows. Commercial fishing's home ports—Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Naknek, Cordova, Petersburg, Sitka, and Seattle—are classic fishing towns, where docks, bars, and even quiet living merge in colorful portraits about life on the last frontier.

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This second edition contains new and updated stories from the super-heated days when fishing fleets turned king crab into fortunes, and the annual circus of Bristol Bay's monster salmon runs, to the dangerous life of the open-ocean trawler. The true stories in Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskian Waters capture the flavor of the modern fisherman s life and fortunes in the waters off Alaska. You ll find firsthand accounts of frightening weather, good fishing, terrible fishing, great days, and sweet living from the decks of crabbers, trawlers, longliners, trollers, and gillnetters. This book and others like it have inspired film crews to trek to Alaska and cover the crabbing seasons for reality TV shows. Commercial fishing s home ports Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Naknek, Cordova, Petersburg, and Sitka are classic fishing towns, where docks, bars, and even quiet living merge in colorful portraits about life on the last frontier.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prelude: Getting Lucky
Map
Ch 1 The Beast of Ugly Seasons King Crabbing, Dutch Harbor
Ch 2 Talking Price and the Cruel Sixteen Salmon Gillnetting, Bristol Bay
Ch 3 The Billion dollar Bottomfish Dream Groundfish Trawling
Ch 4 Kenny and the Council Westward Hilton Hotel, Anchorage
Ch 5 Flying Fish and the Death of a Plane at Egegik Salmon setnetting Bristol Bay
Ch 6 A Beautiful Place to Be Salmon Trolling, Southeast Alaska
Ch 7 Fishing with Modest Ambition Codfish Trawling, Kodiak
Ch 8 Fishing the Flats, Salmon Gillnetting Prince William Sound
Ch 9 The Dream Comes True on the Chain Pollock Trawling, Dutch Harbor
Ch 10 The Resurrection of The Rebecca B Codfish longlinging, Gulf of Alaska
Ch 11 Kelping for Crude The Exxon Valdez Spill
Ch 12 Derby Days, Sleepless Nights Halibut Longlining, Southeast Alaska
Ch 13 Salmon in the Trees Salmon Spawning, Alexander Archipelago

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2012
• Verlagsort: Portland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Alaska • Alaska, Fishing • angling • Artificial Flies • Bass • bonefish • books on fly fishing • Char • COD • craft of making flies • Deep sea fishing • Deep sea trawling • fish • Fishing • fishing advice • flyfishermen • fly fishing • fly fishing advice • flyfishing books • fly fishing books fiction • fly fishing for beginners • fly fishing stories • fly-tying • how to fish • learn how to fish • literature on fly fishing • Outdoors • outdoor writing • pocket guide to fishing • redfish • salmon • stream magazine • tarpon
• ISBN-10: 0-88240-984-0 / 0882409840
• ISBN-13: 978-0-88240-984-9 / 9780882409849