Steamin' Bear Turds                            written by -- "The Mole"

   
During the summer months, I had a job in Kodiak, Alaska, working on a commercial salmon fishing boat.  Commercial salmon fishing involves long, tedious hours of strenuous labor.  There have also been many times when we have had to fish while ten foot waves were peeling over the sides of our boat, and the wind was blowing forty to fifty miles per hour.  The combination of the winds and the cool temperatures makes working pretty tough, but you get little breaks now and then when the weather gets too bad to fish, and we'll anchor up in a bay a ride it out.  

When we weren't fishing, our activities were sort of limited since we were so far away from anything you could call a town.  We usually would drop our anchor in a bay somewhere near our fishing grounds and stay there until we were allowed to fish once again.  Many times we would work on our net on our days off, but after we had our projects out of the way, you could always catch us goofing around with our outboard skiff.

 

One day while anchored in Kukak Bay, on the mainland across from Kodiak, my friend from another boat, Darryl, came over to our boat in his skiff and asked me if I wanted to go onto the beach and pick some berries...  >>>>

 

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