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.

While knowing the ABC’s of Cooking are an important key to help you become a more skilled chef at sea, what is even more important, is that you abide by the 3 LAWS. Yes, that’s right folks. There is a code to cooking on fishing boats.  If you violate one of these laws, this is [...]

Generally speaking, getting mixed up with any kind of whale is not on a fisherman’s bucket list. However, this is one type of whale that every longliner wants to see. First things first. Fishermen have their own terms for just about everything. As I know it, a whale is also used to describe a huge halibut. [...]

Part 2 of  “Fishing Venture Recall on the Kruzof” The Importance of a Good Meal While being in awe over the amount of fish coming over the rail, and the crew’s rapid response to getting the load processed in timely order, I had self imposed pressure to do the same in the form of creating [...]

FISH TILL YOU DROP It’s 4 a.m. and the buzzer goes off. I hear my dad shout, “Rise and shine Bubble Eyes! The fish are jumping, wake up!” I squint at him through my sleepy morning fog and try to wipe the sarcastic smirk off my face. “Oh great. The fish are jumping, that means [...]

I caught the tail end of an epic season aboard the F/V Kruzof with my Uncle, captain Jim. Now check out what it looks like when a boat this size ‘goes dry’. After a long season of longlining the 59.5′ x 24′ longline vessel gets hoisted out of the water for the winter months and [...]