On 1/8/2017 John Kohnen wrote:
Ms. De Santis writes about the eight years in the 1970s she spent commercial fishing out of San Francisco and nearby ports. Mostly trolling for salmon. Following her dream, instead of learning to fish by crewing for someone she jumps right in and leases a beat up old troller -- and learns fast about old wooden boats and fickle fish. Along the way she encounters a lot of prejudice against women fishing (I've heard it myself down on the docks, decades later), but also finds friends and mentors in the fishing fleet. This is a well written book about small-scale fishing from the kinds of boats Coots like. A Real Good read.
Hardcover. 219 pages.