Alaska's Bering Sea Fisherman Stories

When I was eighteen, I had a big fascination about Alaska, so I asked my friend Smitty-Harrison Smith-about a fishing job in Alaska. He told me he could get me a job. So I went up to Seattle, Washington, to get on the Jackie Bell, a fifty-eight-foot salmon troller, to go up the Inside Passage, heading up to Sitka, to commercial fish in the Fairweather Range. We were fishing for Chinook salmon. This is where my forty-year journey started.

This book is a collection of stories from my journals during my experience fishing all over the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The stories were written from the heart and are presented as close to my original recollections as possible. I'm not a writer or editor, these stories are written to the best of my abilities. There might be a few mistakes here and there.

Hope you enjoy reading it, and all the many adventures I was blessed enough to be on.

-- Fast Eddie Holland