• 29
  • Dec, 2011
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TRA Apparel Line Launch
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Announcement, Featured Posts, Hook Line Sisters
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The Real Alaska team is ecstatic to launch our own line of apparel – allowing people to proudly promote their unique connection to Alaska with hoodies and various t-shirts.

  • 20
  • Feb, 2012
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VIDEOS: Herring Season 2011 recap
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Brett Veerhusen, Featured Posts, Hook Line Sisters, Occupation, Sierra Anderson, Sitka Herring
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This season came with its own share of trials. That’s why we call it fishing and not necessarily catching. Remember, there are no guarantees in this business. We went from catching no fish the first day, to getting rammed the second, hanging up on bottom, then finally striking it big the third. Watch some short video documentary from Brett and I after each opener.

  • 18
  • Feb, 2012
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Logisitics of Marine Highway Travel in Alaska
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Advice, Featured Posts, Travel
Alaska Ferry Tustumena. Picture provided by: Alaska-in-pictures.com

The 2.5 day journey from Homer to Chignik aboard the ferry Tustumena includes a stop over in Kodiak for half day. The ferry continues down the Aleutian Chain all the way to Dutch Harbor.

  • 17
  • Feb, 2012
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Homer, Alaska: Halibut Capital of the World
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Featured Posts, Travel
Homer Spit and Chugach Mtn. Sunset

I love Homer. I may be a little biased considering I was born in this quaint town at the end of the road. But I’m not the only one. Homer has turned into a mecca and destination hot spot

  • 15
  • Feb, 2012
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Q&A with Sierra on Fishing, TV, Life, and the Future
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Advice, Chignik, Featured Posts, Hook Line Sisters, Occupation, Opinion, Salmon, Sierra Anderson, Travel
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Have you ever considered spending the summer fishing in the wild waters of Alaska? That’s what Sierra Anderson does. And she loves it. Sierra fishes all summer long and then spends the rest of the year living in Breckenridge, Colorado and traveling to far-flung corners of the globe. That’s a pretty awesome life! An interview by Alaska Job Finder with Sierra about life, fishing, TV, and her future goals.

  • 14
  • Feb, 2012
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PenAir Means WhenAir: Flying Within Alaska
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Chignik, Featured Posts, Travel
PenAir Landing in Dutch Harbor

I grew up flying PenAir my whole life. PenAir serves the small villages along the Peninsula and is a person’s only choice if they choose to fly within this region.

  • 05
  • Feb, 2012
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Photo Album: This is Sitka
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Featured Posts, Photographs, Sierra Anderson, Sitka Herring, Sweet Spots
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As the 2012 season approaches, we thought we would share some amazing photos Sierra took in past seasons.

  • 27
  • Jan, 2012
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Trust Your Instincts, Not the Weather Forecast
POSTED BY Bixler McClure & Krystin Bablinskas IN Featured Posts, Photographs, Recreation, Travel, Video
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A harrowing tale when a pair of sailors are slammed by an Alaskan storm. “I have a bad feeling about [whatever you were going to do today]. Maybe I shouldn’t do it?”

  • 14
  • Jan, 2012
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I wish I had better news to share…
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Announcement, Featured Posts, Hook Line Sisters, Sierra Anderson
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It’s about time I let you all know what’s really going on and why my show hasn’t been on TV. Last Friday I got the terrible phone call and found out TLC pulled the plug on Hook Line & Sisters.

  • 06
  • Jan, 2012
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SCUBA Diving the Last Frontier
POSTED BY Bixler McClure & Krystin Bablinskas IN Announcement, Featured Posts, Photographs, Recreation, Video
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With its 44,000 miles of unexplored coastline, Alaska is truly the last frontier of diving. However, few are willing to take the cold, dark jump into uncertainty.

  • 02
  • Jan, 2012
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Living in Excess: Alaska & NYC Comparison #3
POSTED BY Tucker Burton IN Featured Posts, Opinion, Tucker Burton
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Tucker Burton continues her series on the similarities of New York City and Alaska by diving into the controversial themes of money, alcohol and drugs… “to thwart future behavior is knowledge and awareness of the situation.”