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.

Do you know how many times I hear, “I’m getting too old for this shit”?

Well, I’m sorry to break the news, but if you think you might be, then you probably are…

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.

If there is one question that I get asked when people find out that I work on a fishing boat in Alaska, it’s “how do I get that job?!”

To many people, it seems elusive and impossible. Alaska feels much farther than a 3.5 hour flight from the Lower 48.

I can feel it. Can you? Maybe it is the fact that my bank account is significantly smaller than last September and I know that it is time to refuel. I understand that it is only the middle of March, but in two and a half quick months I’ll be making the GREAT MIGRATION to [...]

There are two ways to get to Chignik – on a boat or in a plane. The ferry runs twice a month to Chignik, and I happened to catch it at the right time. Since it fit with my economical mindset, my transportation was set.  A small plane service flies a bush plane to Chignik about [...]

Within a week of being in Anchorage I had good news to call home about.  I answered a Craigslist ad from a fishing boat captain in a town I had never heard of called Chignik, and after a few conversations telling him my previous work experience and assuring him that I could cook, I had [...]

Fishermen are not only known for using terms that the Discovery Channel needs to bleep out. Sure, one can add F*$@ to almost anything and feel a bit more salty, and perhaps S#%! can be substituted for a noun, adjective or verb. But the most important words and phrases to know come from the fisherman’s [...]

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in mid May, I stood alone facing the doors of the Minneapolis Airport with nothing but a plane ticket, a backpack, and a destination – Anchorage, Alaska. I had no promise of a job in Alaska, almost no money in my bank account, and even less certainty that either would become [...]

This has been an exciting couple of weeks for us here at The Real Alaska. Brett debuted his Trailer about the 2010 Bristol Bay Season and Sierra pummeled the competition with her incredible Trailer in HD about the Chignik salmon fishery. This week, get ready for TRA’s newest contributor to make his mark. Even though [...]