• 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
  • 0
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
  • 0
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.

  • 31
  • Dec, 2011
  • 3
My Biggest Test
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Featured Posts, Sierra Anderson, Sitka Herring
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My biggest test in the skiff has come. It’s Sitka herring season. After our second opener, I have never been so challenged as a skiff woman as I was then. Maneuvering through such chaos was crazy to say the least.

  • 29
  • Dec, 2011
  • 1
This. is. Herring Fishing.
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Featured Posts, Occupation, Sierra Anderson, Sitka Herring
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The nature of competition can be intense. This is the herring fishing season and what is soon to be unveiled in the new TLC fishing series, “Hook Line & Sisters”. Let me give you some context into the world of herring fishing and my experience leading up to what you will see on the premier tonight.

  • 15
  • Dec, 2011
  • 2
Lights, Camera, Sitka!
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Featured Posts, Hook Line Sisters, Sierra Anderson, Sitka Herring
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With Hook, Line & Sisters airing two weeks from today on TLC, we thought we would share Sierra’s post again from this Spring when she wrote about what was happening before the Sitka season.

  • 05
  • Dec, 2011
  • 12
Television Premier of Hook, Line & Sisters
POSTED BY Sierra Anderson IN Chignik, Featured Posts, Hook Line Sisters, Salmon, Sierra Anderson, Sitka Herring
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HOOK, LINE, & SISTERS will premier on TLC December 29th at 9PM (ET/PT). I am excited to post behind the scenes videos and photos on The Real Alaska!

  • 11
  • Nov, 2011
  • 3
Characters & Diversity: Similarities between NYC and Homer #2
POSTED BY Tucker Burton IN Featured Posts, Opinion, Travel, Tucker Burton
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I discussed similarities between New Yorker’s and Alaskan’s persona, I will now compare how both regions are exceptionally eclectic, especially with its residents, visitors and passerby’s.

  • 04
  • Nov, 2011
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What do Alaskan Fishing towns have in Common with the Big Apple?
POSTED BY Tucker Burton IN Featured Posts, Opinion, Tucker Burton
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A cross-cultural comparison between New York City and Homer, Alaska, in hopes of creating a clear picture of what authentic Alaskan culture sometimes involves.

  • 23
  • Oct, 2011
  • 0
Anti-Pebble Momentum Builds as Road Show Audience Soars
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Bristol Bay, Featured Posts, Salmon
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The Save Bristol Bay Road Show has been to three cities so far and nearly 1,000 people in total have learned more about the Pebble Mine. San Francisco is next!