True and intimate short stories of a modern fisherman's life of luck and loss.

TABLE OF CONTENTSPrelude: Getting LuckyMapCh 1 The Beast of Ugly Seasons King Crabbing, Dutch HarborCh 2 Talking Price and the Cruel Sixteen Salmon Gillnetting, Bristol BayCh 3 The Billion dollar Bottomfish Dream Groundfish TrawlingCh 4 Kenny and the Council Westward Hilton Hotel, AnchorageCh 5 Flying Fish and the Death of a Plane at Egegik Salmon setnetting Bristol BayCh 6 A Beautiful Place to Be Salmon Trolling, Southeast AlaskaCh 7 Fishing with Modest Ambition Codfish Trawling, KodiakCh 8 Fishing the Flats, Salmon Gillnetting Prince William SoundCh 9 The Dream Comes True on the Chain Pollock Trawling, Dutch HarborCh 10 The Resurrection of The Rebecca B Codfish longlinging, Gulf of AlaskaCh 11 Kelping for Crude The Exxon Valdez SpillCh 12 Derby Days, Sleepless Nights Halibut Longlining, Southeast AlaskaCh 13 Salmon in the Trees Salmon Spawning, Alexander Archipelago