Opinion: The Streets of Cordova - Down and Out in a Gravel Pit #AlaskaHalibut

Posted 01/10/2012

by - Gerald Masolini

There's an old fishermen's saying that at the end of the season you'll either be wearing silk or burlap underwear, due to the unpredictability of fishing.Burlap it was for my partner Skip Mallory and myself when we began halibut fishing in the spring of '72. We'd scraped together enough money to make a down payment on an old halibut schooner we found in Coos Bay, Oregon. It was built in 1920 and was named the Sentinel. We ran it down to California to clean it up and paint it (there was no money for mechanical, electronic, or hull upgrades). Then we ran it north to Cordova (in those days you "ran" boats and "drove" cars. These....

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