Fried Eggs and Fish Scales
eBook - ePub

Fried Eggs and Fish Scales

Tales from a Sointula Troller

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fried Eggs and Fish Scales

Tales from a Sointula Troller

About this book

Longtime fisherman and Sointula resident Jon Taylor dishes up hilarious yarns from his life off northern Vancouver Island.

Capturing the "rough but reasonable" freedom of Malcolm Island, Jon Taylor recounts the bizarre but enticing lifestyle of a fisherman and his remote community—"haywire tightwads" for skippers, rotten fish in the hold that become "three thousand humpies in a warm, pink soup," and the kind of integrity you don't often see.

Jon Taylor's family history on Malcolm Island extends back to 1917, when Taylor's Finnish grandparents planned to move to the community of Sointula, to live among fellow expats who shared a language and a dream. However, Taylor recounts, upon seeing the island they promptly changed their minds and moved to Cuba. Taylor himself moved to Malcolm Island in 1976 and became a steadfast resident, embracing the fishboat life, for better or worse, aboard seiners, gillnetters and his own troller. Taylor captures a classic but now-disappearing way of life in its heyday with his vibrant and amusing vignettes.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Map
  7. There Is an Island
  8. Employment Insurance
  9. You Get Used To It
  10. Walking Home
  11. Cowboy
  12. Big Set
  13. Home Cooking
  14. How You Use It
  15. Fish Slime and Personal Hygiene
  16. Trolling in the Fog
  17. Noises
  18. Viewfinder
  19. Under the Table
  20. Appliances
  21. Outhouse
  22. Call Home
  23. Pretty Girls
  24. Clean Up Your Act
  25. Justice
  26. Tender
  27. Haywire Tightwad
  28. New Age Feminist
  29. JJ
  30. Integrity
  31. Waiting for the Tide to Turn
  32. The Skipper and the Stripper
  33. A Question of Smarts
  34. Lucky
  35. Nekkid Women
  36. War Story
  37. Clothes Make the Man
  38. Getting Ready for the Old Days
  39. Epilogue
  40. Types of Fishing Vessels and Their Crew
  41. A Glossary of Some Useful Terms
  42. About the Author