Author Archives: Sean Ruddy

Sean was born in Juneau, Alaska, and has spent his life on or near the waters of the Pacific Ocean onboard tall ships, commercial fishing boats, dinghies, kayaks, and surfboards. Even frozen water will do: he has shared his love of skiing with others by teaching disabled people how to enjoy the slopes. After completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at the University of Washington he rode the dot com boom as a web developer. When the bubble burst he returned home to Alaska. On family land in Halibut Cove on Kachemak Bay, he bent a mountain ash down, put a tarp over it and reveled in sleeping on the ground while clearing the land. Now there is a house there and an oyster farm a few miles out in front with a half a million oysters in various stages. Sean is engaged in a shellfish cooperative on the Bay: his goal is to enhance the mariculture industry on the Bay, to grow the very best oysters in the world, and to do both in an environmentally sustainable manner.
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Scoring a Bristol Bay job in 1990
POSTED BY Sean Ruddy IN Advice, Bristol Bay, Featured Posts, Fishing Advice, Greenhorn, Occupation, Salmon
Bristol Bay Boat and Chart

This is usually how you find a job when walking the docks. Someone gets fired, hurt or has an emergency and has to go home. Two weeks of sleep deprivation, cowboy fishing and I had $10,000 cash.

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  • Apr, 2011
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Breaking through the Greenhorn Barrier in 1990
POSTED BY Sean Ruddy IN Advice, Featured Posts, Fishing Advice, Greenhorn, Longlining, Occupation
Halibut Delivery in Homer

My first 24 hour Halibut opener… fairly calm water but a few boats went down from overloading. Boats always sank in those crazy, short, get as much as you can openers.

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  • Apr, 2011
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Forget Sleds: Fat Tires to Nome!
POSTED BY Sean Ruddy IN Advice, Featured Posts, Recreation, Video
The 9:ZERO:7 and it's Surly tires

Last weekend I decided to find out for myself what the craze is all about around winter ridding. I quickly learned the large tires are the key advantage in snow

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  • Mar, 2011
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Halibut Cove Oysters: Dream Big or Fail
POSTED BY Sean Ruddy IN Featured Posts, Occupation, Travel
Farm Buoys

I rode the tech bubble wave in Seattle through the 90’s.  First explaining to people why they want a web-page then why I was too busy to make them one.  In 2001 tech jobs were hard to come by and my mom had purchased a piece of property in one of my favorite places to [...]