Archive for August, 2006

Thurs, Aug 31

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Went to the doctor and found out the accident I had moving fish 3 weeks ago was fairly serious.  I broke out a chip of bone that attaches to the tendon on the knuckle closest to the fingernail of the middle finger of my left hand.  It’s stayed swollen and red, even after I gained [...]

Wednesday, Aug 30, 2006

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Today is my first “forum” with city interests for the Assembly election. It’s in front of a bunch of unions, so that should show them just how not-ready I am for politics. We’ll see.
Spent 4 hours last night re vack-packing orders to go out. The vac packer is one of the weak [...]

August 27th, 2006

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Went sport fishing yesterday in the first time in a couple years – funny thing is, that’s what brought me up here 23 years ago. I went in my buddy Ron’s skiff with his fishing gear. When we got out to the spot, he directed me to a rod and a herring bait [...]

Monday, Aug 21, 2006

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

So today the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game announces a closure of the troll fishery for 5 days. I’d thought I’d not got the pink or sockeye salmon I’d wanted this season, but thought surely I could get all the coho I wanted. Lots of coho around here, but apparently not in [...]

August 8, 2006

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I’m so desparate to find someone – anyone- to sell me quality pink salmon that I got my 18 foot skiff licensed to go out and get them directly off of gillnet vessels as they harvest them. Things were going okay till the weather kicked up a little. I pulled up to the [...]


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