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I have never fished the Bering Sea but my dad has. He fished king crab there and that pot that you saw in their net was lost by a king crabber. The Russians are known for crossing the border and will scoop up your pots if they are in the area fished by the trawl. That pot had been under for quite a while and had probably been cast over by a trawler that scooped it up previously.

My family doesn't trawl but at various times I have trolled, long lined, fished pots, and seined. I have also dived for crab and abalone but that was sport and not commercial. Commercial fishing is the deadliest job, primarily because of the long hours and lack of sleep. One of the safety measures that Dad implemented on his boat was to wear western shirts. Western shirts have snaps instead of buttons. When you are letting out a net it can whip around and grab a button and pull you overboard. I've had a net grab a button but I would immediately grab the shirt and rip the button off. A knife removed all the other buttons shortly there after.
 
I have never fished the Bering Sea but my dad has. He fished king crab there and that pot that you saw in their net was lost by a king crabber. The Russians are known for crossing the border and will scoop up your pots if they are in the area fished by the trawl. That pot had been under for quite a while and had probably been cast over by a trawler that scooped it up previously.

My family doesn't trawl but at various times I have trolled, long lined, fished pots, and seined. I have also dived for crab and abalone but that was sport and not commercial. Commercial fishing is the deadliest job, primarily because of the long hours and lack of sleep. One of the safety measures that Dad implemented on his boat was to wear western shirts. Western shirts have snaps instead of buttons. When you are letting out a net it can whip around and grab a button and pull you overboard. I've had a net grab a button but I would immediately grab the shirt and rip the button off. A knife removed all the other buttons shortly there after.

Very interesting I like it ! That is one heck of a job for sure. I didn't think about Russia being so rude taking things.
 
Very interesting I like it ! That is one heck of a job for sure. I didn't think about Russia being so rude taking things.

American trawlers may do it as well but the Russians are known for it and get most of the blame. It has occasioned more than one shot being fired by American fishermen. I know of one instance where an American rammed a Russian because of it. Then he backed off and rammed him again. The pots are expensive and you loose all the crab that they will catch for the rest of the season as they are generally not replaceable till you get back to Seattle or wherever your home port is.
 
American trawlers may do it as well but the Russians are known for it and get most of the blame. It has occasioned more than one shot being fired by American fishermen. I know of one instance where an American rammed a Russian because of it. Then he backed off and rammed him again. The pots are expensive and you loose all the crab that they will catch for the rest of the season as they are generally not replaceable till you get back to Seattle or wherever your home port is.

I bet if I were born a man near fishing boats I'd have been a fisherman. I alway liked the water. It is a hard life but looks like a rewarding one too.
I still want to go up north to Crows Nest ' The Perfect Storm' [one of the best books I ever read 3 times ] ,it is on my bucket list.
 
I bet if I were born a man near fishing boats I'd have been a fisherman. I alway liked the water. It is a hard life but looks like a rewarding one too.
I still want to go up north to Crows Nest ' The Perfect Storm' [one of the best books I ever read 3 times ] ,it is on my bucket list.
Not me, I have never been much of a water person. I could never get into a boat like that and go out and do that kind of fishing. I can stand on the shore and all is good. I can clean a mess of fish on the shore as well! I know that is hard and dangerous work.

I remember a fishing trip with my parents to a local dam, so I had to be 6 or under. I was terrified to get into a boat that a man had who was going to give us all a ride because it wouldn't be still. (And no one else was going to cast my fishing line in for me. The hook caught me in the backside, but I did it myself!) :eyeballs:
 
Not me, I have never been much of a water person. I could never get into a boat like that and go out and do that kind of fishing. I can stand on the shore and all is good. I can clean a mess of fish on the shore as well! I know that is hard and dangerous work.

I remember a fishing trip with my parents to a local dam, so I had to be 6 or under. I was terrified to get into a boat that a man had who was going to give us all a ride because it wouldn't be still. (And no one else was going to cast my fishing line in for me. The hook caught me in the backside, but I did it myself!) :eyeballs:

Weedy water is not for everyone guess you have to live where there is plenty of it or at least real close. I have gotten hooked too.:)
 
Back in the mid 70’s I had a friend who went to Alaska. He came back for a few months every year and told us what he was doing up there. He was crab fishing. He would tell stories about being on the boat, up for days at a time, breaking ice off it, storms, working with waves of icy water crashing over the sides… It sounded like the most far fetched story anyone could ever come up with, it really did. How could anyone live like that for months at a time? But, he always had a lot of cash when he got back, and always went back North after visiting.



Years and years later the show “Deadliest Catch” came on TV. I had to laugh. It was exactly what he described it to be, to the T. If I hadn’t have bought the farmstead and been remodeling it for my homestead, I was young enough and dumb enough to have gone back with him.
 
Back in the mid 70’s I had a friend who went to Alaska. He came back for a few months every year and told us what he was doing up there. He was crab fishing. He would tell stories about being on the boat, up for days at a time, breaking ice off it, storms, working with waves of icy water crashing over the sides… It sounded like the most far fetched story anyone could ever come up with, it really did. How could anyone live like that for months at a time? But, he always had a lot of cash when he got back, and always went back North after visiting.



Years and years later the show “Deadliest Catch” came on TV. I had to laugh. It was exactly what he described it to be, to the T. If I hadn’t have bought the farmstead and been remodeling it for my homestead, I was young enough and dumb enough to have gone back with him.

Sounds pretty normal to me. I worked on a tug where we kept baseball bats to beat the ice off. The ice can build up and change the center of gravity and your vessel will capsize if you get too much ice.
 
I love the water and have run boats from 8' to 100'. As most here know I took a 33' sailboat across the Atlantic. That was water view property for way less than most.

No I didn't know about your long voyage ,that is neat. We are too old to take on that kind of adventure now but both of us would have liked it when we were younger. Hubby can fix anything and he would have been a great sailor.
We have been watching a young couple ' Gone With The Wynns ' who are now somewhere in the Pacific but those videos are not up on YT yet. They put in in Ft Lauderdale Fl. went to all the islands and into Panama. It was all free up til last year or so, I think they are getting greedy with their Patrion now. Anyway it has been interesting and we enjoyed all their videos both RVing and past couple years now sailing.
 
Crab fishermen die in terrible tragidy this week off coast of Oregon.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...1-09/fishing-boat-capsizes-in-oregon-3-killed


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Crab fishermen die in terrible tragidy this week off coast of Oregon.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...1-09/fishing-boat-capsizes-in-oregon-3-killed


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Same ocean, different State. Oregon has some pretty dangerous bars to cross to enter or exit their harbours. Commercial fishing is the most dangerous career there is. Part of this is because the sea is unforgiving and a big part is because of lack of sleep. When I was commercial fishing I'd regularly put in a 100 hour work week. That is a five day week. On the two other days we would restock, repair, party, then go back to fishing to rest up. Everybody in the industry has lost friends.
 
Never fish the seven seas.

All of the seas are safe from us now maybe when we were younger we both would have tried it. Hubby did shrimp off Carolinas as a young man, but those days are gone.
Raising kids took away the adventurer in us till we were too old to venture out. But would have tried it back in the day.
We like to watch those who travel around the world on their boats.
 
Boats are great. Repairing and maintaining boats sucks. I enjoy the water, but I like it in small doses. No salt water for me, thank you very much...

Yea me too now use to be that I wasn't afraid of much, now I'm not so brave at all. But I still like the ocean but no boat seaworthy and neither are we,so its canals and rivers for us.
 
Boats are great. Repairing and maintaining boats sucks. I enjoy the water, but I like it in small doses. No salt water for me, thank you very much...
I am quite the opposite. I love the ocean. My longest crossing had me out of sight of land for 24 days. I could live on a boat...if I had a place to keep my spare stuff. Big plus, no lawn mowing.
 
I am quite the opposite. I love the ocean. My longest crossing had me out of sight of land for 24 days. I could live on a boat...if I had a place to keep my spare stuff. Big plus, no lawn mowing.


No vines or trees either to take down. :great:. But we do have a place to hang the work hats so all is good I guess. When it stops raining [ not complaining ,yet we needed it] we plan on a trip to see where to put in around St Augustine. Rivers or canals. River is nice but I like some salt too. The bay is nice.



Suwanee River where we have been going, nothing but woods and wildlife,which is nice and beautiful but we see the woods all the time so need a change of scenery.
 
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I am quite the opposite. I love the ocean. My longest crossing had me out of sight of land for 24 days. I could live on a boat...if I had a place to keep my spare stuff. Big plus, no lawn mowing.
I like looking at the ocean, smelling the salt spray and all, but I'll stay within sight of land. Even the great lakes are more than I want.

@Meerkat I could actually live on a boat too, but from what I've seen the upkeep on a boat is worse than a RV. Plus, I plan on living in Iowa quite a while longer, and the water gets a little too hard here from November to March. Lol we don't even have that many lakes here to use a boat on...
 
I like looking at the ocean, smelling the salt spray and all, but I'll stay within sight of land. Even the great lakes are more than I want.

@Meerkat I could actually live on a boat too, but from what I've seen the upkeep on a boat is worse than a RV. Plus, I plan on living in Iowa quite a while longer, and the water gets a little too hard here from November to March. Lol we don't even have that many lakes here to use a boat on...

Spike that would be a long haul to put into salt alright.
Our boat is not that demanding, not much to fix but its just a 18' jon boat with ancient outboard. It sits and rides in the water nicely.
Getting it ready was a job though. It took 10 years off and on to finally get it in the water.
 
Spike that would be a long haul to put into salt alright.
Our boat is not that demanding, not much to fix but its just a 18' jon boat with ancient outboard. It sits and rides in the water nicely.
Getting it ready was a job though. It took 10 years off and on to finally get it in the water.
I'd like a 16ft Jon boat with high sides on it. Even a 14ft would do. I only fish on small water so a little bitty 9 horse outboard would be fine. Besides, a lot of our man-made lakes in Iowa specify electric motors only, because the wakes from fast boats cause shoreline erosion. The main lakes I fish are 150 acres or less so I don't need much.

An 18ft pontoon boat with an ice box, sun shade, stereo, and a little gas grill might be nice though... I could get real hard to find during the summer if I had one of those...
 
I like looking at the ocean, smelling the salt spray and all, but I'll stay within sight of land. Even the great lakes are more than I want.

@Meerkat I could actually live on a boat too, but from what I've seen the upkeep on a boat is worse than a RV...

boat | bəʊt |n. A hole in the water you throw money into.
 
I was going to provide the definition of boat but was beaten to it.
I have a 16 foot canoe that I have had in salt water, Puget Sound, fresh water Lake Washington, Cedar River. I have put $5 in repairs to one of the paddles and enjoyed the heck out of it. The sound was a great learning experience. Most salt water enthusiasts have little patience for a canoe an it is important to stay out of ferry and shipping lanes. The really big boats ALWAYS have the right of way!:eyeballs:
I did learn how to make the wind help to get me where I was going.:rolleyes:
You have to yield right of way to aircraft, landing or taking off. Who thinks about airplanes while paddling a canoe around a lake?:dunno::eek:
 
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