“My great grandfather came here from Missouri in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. He and two or three other guys built a boat in Missouri and put it on a train, dumped it in the water in Seattle and rowed and sailed up here from Seattle. They stopped in Juneau. I think they were about half crazy, and they were broke.”

“I’ve been sportfishing ever since I was old enough to hold a pole. I think I caught my first king salmon when I was about five years old, and I’ve continued to catch king salmon every year since.”

“Until we were probably 10, 12 years old, my brother and I fished on my mom's trolling boat. She just had a little 20-foot wood boat and two kids on it running around. She would tie us off to the mast sometimes.”