Commercial Salmon Trolling Forum

I just wanted to say thank you for this forum. We received many promising replies to our advertisement for a deckhand. Stretch hired a guy today who was walking the docks (Bar Harbor, Ketchikan) kind of like TomD last year. Timing was right. They talked and hit it off well so we've got a deckhand fo...

F/V Seawitch, 42' powertroller, needs deckhand for July-August-September 2013 season. Fishes for SPC out of Sitka, Alaska. Must be clean, sober, and reliable. No experience necessary if you have a good work ethic - cleaning troll caught salmon, icing, tying gear, some cooking, unloading, keep deck, ...

Well, Tom, I wish your post was for 2013 DeckHand Position . . . sounds like you had quite an experience last summer. My husband had a similar experience. However, he hit Ketchikan and lived on the docks, nearly starved that first winter, he was noticed and hired by a top skipper. He "stuck and...